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	Dollars.			Dollars.
President of the Republic	9,000		Supposed produce of duties, if collected on an improved plan
Vice President	3,000			300,000
Secretary of State	4,746
Salaries and expenses of ministers in foreign countries		145,146
	125,950		Do. tobacco & gunpowder the two fedrl monopolies
				315,000
Assist. to Sec. of State	450
Salaries of Magistrates	14,000		Loan	75,000
Expenses connected with collecting of duties	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ 12,600		Balance to be divided as a contingent among the different states
				690,791
Do. of Post-office	8,738
Do. connected with the sowing of Tobacco	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$115,950
Do. with the manufacture of Gunpowder	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$17,300
Salaries of two Ministers of Finance	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$10,660
Do. Treasurer	5,460
Do. Receivers of duties in the ports	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$17,600	257,508
Pensions of individuals employed under the Spanish government	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$17,000
Charitable Pensions	2,800
Hospitals	10,500
Expenses connected with the Commandants and Treasurers of the different Ports	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$25,000
Secretary of Federal Cong.	3,150
Secretary of the Senate	3,250
Judges	7,500
For the establishment and maintenance of the army and navy according to the plans of the Legislative Assembly		$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$966,137
		$1,380,791		$1,380,791

The report then refers to the national debt, which with interest, is stated to amount to two millions and a half of dollars; a sum chiefly borrowed by the captains-general of the court of Spain, in order to pay the contributions imposed by the mother country, and principally owing to different religious houses.

This statement, meagre and unsatisfactory as it is, merits attention as being the only attempt of