7. The regulation for free Commerce, the general Instruction of the Revenue issued in 1816, and the other Resolutions relative to the Commerce of America, are suspended, in whatever shall be at variance with the contents of the preceding Articles. By the Royal Order, &c.-Palace, 9th February, 1827. LUIS LOPEZ BALLESTEROS. REPORT of the Minister of Finance to the Congress of Colombia-1st January, 1827. (Extract.) (Translation.) STATEMENT of the Income and Expenditure of the National Treasury of the Republick of Colombia, 1826, 1827. Expenditure, (Estimate, Financial Year, to June, 1827.) OBSERVATIONS. 1st. The expenses of the Mint are not inserted above, because the sums stated in the Income under those heads, are the nett proceeds, and the enumeration of those expenses would therefore have made it appear that they were double their real amount. 2nd. Even calculating the sum of 2,862,911 dollars for the Department of Venezuela, which is the highest amount, compared with what is assigned to those which are subject to the heaviest expenses in Colombia, there is still an excess of 1,230,297 dollars. Bogota, 1st January, 1827. JOSE M. DEL CASTILLO. N. B. The foregoing Statement is given, of the Expenditure for the Financial Year, ending 30th June, 1827, because no Return has been made of the Expenditure of the Year preceding. REPORT of the Minister of War to the Congress of Colombia.-30th January, 1827. (Extract.) (Translation.) General Estimate of the Expenditure of the War Department, for the Year 1827. Dollars. Staffs.-Salaries of the Persons employed in the War Office, and Office Expenses.... Pay of Generals and Chiefs.... Salaries of Inferior Employés of the Staff, and Office Expenses ..... of the Army, and Office Expenses.... Invalids.-Allowances to Invalids, granted up to the 2nd inst. Hospitals.-Expenses of all Classes in the Hospitals of the Departments, wherein extra pay is received...... 12,870 221,440 46,872 1,183,820 676,080 326,568 24,408 115,753 7,200 87,403 261,333 Expenses of all Classes in the Hospitals of the Departments, wherein extra pay is not received.............. 35,988 Artificers.-Expenses of the Manufactory of Gunpowder in 25,061 Engineers.-Personal Expenses, supposed to be about. 60,000 Fortifications. For the more urgent expenses of this branch, about... 50,000 Rations.-Rations of Forage, there not being many Cavalry mounted...... 20,000 Parks of Artillery-To supply these with the articles of con stant consumption..... 100,000 Remounts. For remounting the Cavalry, and for Mules for the Army on the march..... Extraordinaries. For extraordinary and unforeseen Ex Dollars. 50,000 penses. 1,000,000 Total Dollars.... 4,307,797 Bogota, 30th January, 1827. CARLOS SOUBLETTE. REPORT of the Minister of Marine, to the Congress of (Extract.) Colombia.-7th February, 1827. (Translation.) Estimate of the Amount required for the maintenance of all the branches of the Navy. Dollars. For payment of the Salaries of the Chief and other Clerks of the Office of the Minister of Marine.... 4,300 For payment of the Military and Civil Employés of the Naval 44,880 To keep on the War Establishment the Corvette Ceres.. 123,006 151,956 Idem the Brig Congreso in Guayaquil .... 46,830 Idem the Schooners Manrique, Padilla, and Independencia.. 75,573 Idem two Schooners and two Cutters, as Packets .... 57,784 Preservation and care of the Frigate Colombia ... 6,226 Preservation and care of the Frigate Cundinamarca 5,566 For maintenance of the three Arsenals of the 2nd Naval Department, and of the Cumanà and Guayaquil Stations... Idem the Naval Schools of Guayaquil, Puerto Cabello, and 7,440 For the Careening, Refitting, and Manning, and the conduct ing of the Corvette Bolivar to the Ports of Colombia.... For the Careening of the Corvette Ceres ... 34,917 8,550 For Repairs and Careening, on an extensive Scale, of the For Dock-yard repairs for the preceding Small Craft...... 11,220 Dollars....912,721 Additional Estimates, in the event of its being found necessary to keep on the War Establishment the other larger Vessels of War. To place the said Vessels on the War Establishment ........ 858,163 |