resembling the present miner's rules in California. Their
immediate effect was almost to double the production of silver, while
the Mineria was both a school to impart scientific knowledge in
relation to mining, and a bank to advance money to develop new mineral
enterprises. Its support now rests upon the tax it is authorized to
levy of one shilling upon every mark ($8) of silver produced.

[50] As it is an unimportant question whether Cortez first built
a chapel for the Franciscans back of the Cathedral, or the one in
the yard of the Franciscans, I here repeat the popular tradition.

[51] HUMBOLDT, _Essai Politique_.

[52] As my readers may be a little curious to know how the city
government is sustained, I translate the statement of city
revenue of 1851.

There were in that year 379 licensed _pulque_-shops,
yielding a revenue of $65,297
538 retail grocer shops in which liquor is
sold by the gill 25,609
8 breweries pay a city tax of 1,697
132 cafes, fondas, and eating-houses pay 4,418
Tax on grain and bread consumed in the city 53,762
Public diversions, $3103; permitted plays
(not gambling), $3221 6,324
Tax on canals, $6798; tax on coaches, $20,157;
markets, $56,130 83,085
Donation of the proceeds of a bull-fight 830
Gifts, in bread and meat, to the prisons 4,561
A tax of one dollar on the slaughtering of
21,984 beef-cattle 21,984
16,404 calves were slaughtered, paying six
shillings tax 12,303
145,040 sheep, at one shilling and sixpence 27,194
9394 pigs paid five shillings tax, or 5,870
42,734 swine, full grown, paid six shillings 32,055
7750 goats and kids, at one shilling and sixpence 1,453
Tax on property entering the city gates 1,878
Licenses to slaughter to individuals 136
The water rents of $20,000 were consumed in repairs.
The tax on fish yielded $390
The balance of t