It is a new State. It is involving itself more or less In expenditures for internal improvements. It is inviting and receiving great immigration both from Germany and Italy. The consequence is that the State must have revenue. and this export duty on coffee is substantially the only source of revenue that the State has at her command. A duty of 9 per cent ad valorem is levied upon the first nine and onehalf million bags of coffee produced in the State of Silo Paulo. and that duty rises with the increase of production and exportation to 20 per cent ad valorem.
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