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Rh {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:80%;" ! !Dollars. ! ! !Dollars.
 * President of the Republic
 * 9,000
 * rowspan="4" |Supposed produce of duties, if collected on an improved plan
 * Vice President
 * 3,000
 * 300,000
 * Secretary of State
 * 4,746
 * rowspan="3" |Salaries and expenses of ministers in foreign countries
 * 145,146
 * 125,950
 * rowspan="3" |Do. tobacco & gunpowder the two fedrl monopolies
 * 315,000
 * Assist. to Sec. of State
 * 450
 * Salaries of Magistrates
 * 14,000
 * Loan
 * 75,000
 * Rowspan="2" |Expenses connected with collecting of duties
 * Rowspan="2" | 12,600
 * rowspan="3" |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
 * 115,950
 * Do. with the manufacture of Gunpowder
 * 17,300
 * Salaries of two Ministers of Finance
 * 10,660
 * Do. Treasurer
 * 5,460
 * Do. Receivers of duties in the ports
 * 17,600
 * 257,508
 * Pensions of individuals employed under the Spanish government
 * 17,000
 * Charitable Pensions
 * 2,800
 * Hospitals
 * 10,500
 * Expenses connected with the Commandants and Treasurers of the different Ports
 * 25,000
 * Secretary of Federal Cong.
 * 3,150
 * Secretary of the Senate
 * 3,250
 * Judges
 * 7,500
 * colspan="2" |For the establishment and maintenance of the army and navy according to the plans of the Legislative Assembly
 * 966,137
 * colspan="2" |
 * $1,380,791
 * $1,380,791
 * }
 * Do. connected with the sowing of Tobacco
 * 115,950
 * Do. with the manufacture of Gunpowder
 * 17,300
 * Salaries of two Ministers of Finance
 * 10,660
 * Do. Treasurer
 * 5,460
 * Do. Receivers of duties in the ports
 * 17,600
 * 257,508
 * Pensions of individuals employed under the Spanish government
 * 17,000
 * Charitable Pensions
 * 2,800
 * Hospitals
 * 10,500
 * Expenses connected with the Commandants and Treasurers of the different Ports
 * 25,000
 * Secretary of Federal Cong.
 * 3,150
 * Secretary of the Senate
 * 3,250
 * Judges
 * 7,500
 * colspan="2" |For the establishment and maintenance of the army and navy according to the plans of the Legislative Assembly
 * 966,137
 * colspan="2" |
 * $1,380,791
 * $1,380,791
 * }
 * Expenses connected with the Commandants and Treasurers of the different Ports
 * 25,000
 * Secretary of Federal Cong.
 * 3,150
 * Secretary of the Senate
 * 3,250
 * Judges
 * 7,500
 * colspan="2" |For the establishment and maintenance of the army and navy according to the plans of the Legislative Assembly
 * 966,137
 * colspan="2" |
 * $1,380,791
 * $1,380,791
 * }
 * 7,500
 * colspan="2" |For the establishment and maintenance of the army and navy according to the plans of the Legislative Assembly
 * 966,137
 * colspan="2" |
 * $1,380,791
 * $1,380,791
 * }
 * $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