Expenditure of the provincial revenue of the city of León in 1757

The provincial revenues, a set of independent aggregates such as the alcabalas, millones, tercias and cientos, were one of the main sources of revenue for the administration. In the case of the provincial revenues of the city of León, the income was accompanied by the corresponding expenses. In 1757 these expenses amounted to a total of 484,715 reales out of a revenue of 491,886 reales. Most of the expenditure, 71% (344,535 reales) went to the Treasury General of Revenues. The remaining 29% of expenditure was mainly divided between employees’ salaries (15.3%), loans to individuals (6.7%), and repairs (1.7%). The employees constituted a socio-professional category of their own, being the persons directly employed by the administrators of the revenues and the officials who were responsible for the management of the revenues. Also included are the intendant, with an allocation of 3,000 reales, and the four deputies elected by the parish residents, with 500 reales each. As a whole, the expenses were oriented towards the support of the supra-provincial administration, both in terms of destination and in terms of management and collection.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 2. Social and economic impact of technological revolutions in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/7766/7822

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Bartolomé Bartolomé, J. M. (2009). "De la administración particular a la gestión por el común de vecinos de las rentas provinciales de la ciudad de León en el siglo XVIII", en Studia Historica, vol. 31, p. 323.

Language: Castellano

Date: 2009

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Abstract: Table showing the expenditure of the provincial revenue of the city of León in 1757. On the one hand, for the General Treasury and, on the other hand, to pay the collectors and managers of this provincial revenue

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