extra-insular

Updated: July 1, 2026

Of this sum only about $650,000 is expended in the island, the remainder being applied to payment of interest on public debt, salaries of Spanish officials, army, navy, and other extra-insular expenditures. But the whole of the revenue is collected in the island."

Murat Halstead - The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, : Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient