These stations are situated in 89 departments, viz.:—

1. Départment de la Seine, collecting 2,822,367 francs.

2. „ Bouches de Rhone, „ 747,228 „

3. „ Seine inférieure, „ 608,737 „

4. „ Rhone, „ 348,514 „

5. „ Nord, „ 265,705 „

6. „ Gironde, „ 260,615 „

7. „ Loire inférieure, „ 139,797 „

8. „ Haut Rhin, „ 135,483 „

9. „ Hèrault, „ 134,388 „

10. „ Alpes Maritimes, „ 101,183 „

Nine other departments collect annually between 90,000 down to 50,000

francs, the remaining seventy from 49,000 down to 4,653 francs.

Paris (Départment de la Seine) has forty-six stations within the

fortifications. The gross receipts amounted, in 1866, to 2,794,768.40

francs, being more than one third of the total receipts of the whole

empire.

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