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Rh a more particular, and exact account of all the different branches of administration, including,

1. The state of the public resources during the two first years of the independence, and the means taken to improve them.

2. The probable expenses of the year entering.

3. An exact statement of the funds applied by the constituent assembly to the expenses of the federal government.

4. Means proposed for improving the resources of the federation, by a better system of collecting the present taxes, and creating new sources of revenue; and,

5. On the establishment of public credit, by a foreign loan.

A report, in some measure meeting the wishes of the assembly, was accordingly presented in the month of March 1826. From it we learn, that among the earliest acts of the constituent assembly, was an order for the governments of the different states to separate the funds which belonged to the local administrations, from those of the nation; to appoint a common treasury, and to demand exact accounts of the distribution of monies from the independence to that period. The commissioners, however, reported that this information could not be obtained, nor was it