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PUBLIC DEBT.
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Expenditures.

Legislative power 1,071,712
Executive power 48,832
Supreme Court 389,554
Foreign affairs 336,280
Interior 3,235,118
Justice and public education 1,215,473
Public works (Fomento) 7,551,083
Treasury 4,648,377
War and navy 8,514,478
—————
Total 27,011,507
Expenditures of the several States 7,500,000
—————
Grand total 34,511,507

XIV.

Public Debt.

1. Foreign debts:
English debt of Oct. 14, 1850 $89,252,360
English convention of Dec. 4, 1851 . 5,900,025
Spanish convention of Dec. 6, 1851. 1,231,775
Spanish convention of Nov. 12, 1853. 5,553,287
Indebtedness to the United States of July 4, 1868 2,775,123
—————— $104,712,570
2. Internal debt 40,241,215
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Total[1] $144,953,785

The Mexican Government does not recognize the debts as stated by the English and Spanish conventions. All the foreign debts, except that due the United States, are about to be consolidated, and bonds bearing three per cent interest, to be receivable for Government lands, adjudicated

  1. Translated from the Almanack de Gotha.