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. Total. 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. INCOME.-(3D FINANCIAL YEAR, TO JUNE 1826.) Dollars, Imports 3,178,197 Exports 582,100 Excise 424,854 Tonnage 75,638 Fines.... 1,126 Warehouse 456 Licences 1,431 Exportation of Gold Coin 722 Anchorage Duties 55,973 Wharfage.. do....... 5,578 Bonding....do.. 8,152 Sundry dues .... 41,658 Duty on Salt 134 Fees (Improvements) 2,656 Arrears of last Year 101,188 Idem approximative..... 1.208,146 5,688,019 MINTS. Balance in hand ..... 82,522 Receipts in 1826 59,629 142,151 Value of Gold melted 2,473,557 Do. of Silver....do.... 40,952 Total. Stamps Dollars. 2,246 539 93,488 3,182 83 37,665 500 53 8,391 7,814 1,280 860 131,363 1,895,701 31,748 254,216 3,904 1,466 20,528 2,505 1,531 81 1,586 62,483 13,731 3,480 74,792 28,577 18,816 12,750 138,067 7,700 200 75,733 744 316 174,531 3,795,488 TREASURIES OF THE MAGDALENA. 968,078 7,939 9,517 797 Expenditure, (Estimate, Financial Year, to June, 1827.) TREASURIES OF THE MAGDALENA. Remittances to other Treasuries 629,963 Other Expenses... 825,827 1,455,790 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 Reiurn 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. 12,870 221,440 46,872 1,153,820 676,080 326,568 21, 103 115,753 Staffs.-Salaries of the Persons employed in the War Office, and Office Expenses.... and Artillery, in the 4 Northern Departments.... the 3 Maritime Departments of the Centre and South.... Pay and Clothing of the Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery, in the Departments of the Interior..... of the Army, and Office Expenses..... Departments, wherein extra pay is received .......... Expenses of all Classes in the Hospitals of the Departments, wherein extra pay is not received.. Bogota..... about mounted...... Parks of Artillery-To supply these with the articles of con stant consumption .. 7,200 87,403 261,333 35,958 25,061 60,000 50,000 20,000 100,000 Dollars, 50,000 Remounts.-For remounting the Cavalry, and for Mules for the Army on the march...... Extraordinaries. For extraordinary and unforeseen Ex 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 Colombia.-7th February, 1827. (Extract.) (Translation.) Estimate of the Amount required for the maintenance of all the branches of the Navy. Dollars. 4,300 44,880 123,006 151,956 46,830 75,573 57,784 6,226 5,566 For payment of the Salaries of the Chief and other Clerks of the Office of the Minister of Marine...... Departments and Stations .. partment, and of the Cumanà and Guayaquil Stations... Maracaibo... ing of the Corvette Bolivar to the Ports of Colombia.... Vessels on the War Establishment..... partments and Stations 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 |