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��vernment in all the territories and States of the Union, by a calculation nearly approaching the truth, do not cost more than 90,000 dollars a year. The government pays only those in actual service; it gives neither pensions nor sinecures; the expense, therefore, is increased or diminished, in proportion to the number of persons employed. Foreign mi- nisters receive a salary of 9,000 dollars a year, and 9,000 outfit, ^vhi(:h amounts to 18,000 dollars for the first year, and as they are in general fre- quently changed, and moved from place to place, according to the favour they enjoy, it follows that the extraordinary expenses are very great. The Secretaries of Legation have 2,000 or 2,500 dol lars a year: the consuls have no salary, with the exception of those in the regencies of Africa. Notwithstanding this, in the year 1816, the whole of those employed, did not cost more than 92,332 dollars. The Mint, and all employed in it, cost 12,735 dollars per annum. So that the publick ex- penses, the civil list and judiciary, the foreign de- partment, together with what is paid to the gover- nors of territories, and allowing a large sum for incidental or extraordinary expenses, do not amount to 700,000 dollars a year.

The Army and Navy are the two objects of greatest expense to the government, but in time of peace the first consists only of ten thousand men, commanded by two major generals and four briga-

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