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 the infractions or liabilities which in its judgment have been incurred. The definitive approval or rejection of the accounts rests with Congress.

Allotments included in the budget for contingent expenses of the administration can be spent, when contingencies arise, only by a resolution of the Cabinet.

The Executive Branch shall forward to Congress monthly the balance sheets showing the revenues and expenses of the Nation.

262. The Executive Branch shall avoid duplication of services and a multiplicity of official or semi-official agencies, totally or partially compensated by the Nation for the accomplishment of its purposes.

263. No one shall be compelled to pay any tax, toll or contribution whatever, that has not been expressly established by law or by the municipalities, in the manner established by this Constitution, and the amount of which is not going to form part of the revenues of the budget of the Nation, a Province or a Municipality, except as otherwise provided in the Constitution or by Law.

The foregoing provision shall not be considered to comprise contributions or quotas imposed by law, in an obligatory manner, on persons or entities composing an industry, commercial ‘business or profession, in favour of its bodies recognized by law.

264. The Nation, without prejudice to the other means within lits power, shall regulate the development of the national wealth by means of the execution of public works payable in whole or in part by those directly benefited. The adequate manner and procedure whereby the Nation, the Province or the Municipality, on its own initiative or having recourse to private initiative, shall promote the execution of such works, grant the pertinent concessions, authorise the fixing, the assessment and the collection of taxes for those purposes, shall be determined by law.

265. The liquidation of each appropriation of Government funds for the execution of any public work or service shall be published integrally in the Official Gazette of the Republic, as soon as it has received the approval of the corresponding Minister.