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Rh pay the contingent and to promote harmonious and necessary measures.

A notable transaction by Ramirez was his arrangement with the interior and foreign creditors of the republic, who had become clamorous and even threatening under the failure of a pressed administration to meet their demands. A revolution in the northeast provinces had besides obliged it to infringe the tariff laws in an alarming manner. By decree of May 19, 1852, an effort was made to carry out the provisions of November 1850 for the consolidation and settlement of the interior debt; but the assignment proved insufficient to cover more than two thirds of the interest. Before this the foreign ministers and representatives had formally protested against the inroads on customhouse revenues by tariff infringements in the northeast, and the glaring neglect to suppress smuggling, The energetic steps taken in consequence served to appease them somewhat, and a number of pending and deferred claims were arranged by special conventions at the close of 1851, which naturally affected the assignments for paying their claims. a settlement that was not to be of long duration.