If we examine the receipts covering this expenditure, we find that the additional centimes which supplied the local budgets, in 1820, with 80 millions, and, in 1850, with 131 millions, supplied them, in 1870, with 249 millions, in 1880, with 318 millions, and, in 1887, with 364 millions.

The annual increase, therefore, of these superadded centimes to the principal of the direct taxes is enormous, and finally ends in an overflow.

In 1874,[4240] there were already 24 departments in which the sum of additional centimes reached or surpassed the sum of the principal.

"In a very few years," says an eminent economist,[4241] "it is probable that, for nearly all of the departments," the overcharge will be similar.

Already, for a long time, in the total of personal taxation,[4242] the local budgets raised more than the state, and, in 1888, the principal of the tax real property, 183 millions, is less than the total of centimes joined with it, 196 millions.