of measures conformable to the present situation of mercantile relations, and of Navigation, by giving to the latter due uniformity and ge nerality; with the view of consulting the interests of the Royal Treasury, as well as of commerce and industry, has been pleased, after hearing the opinion of his Council of Ministers, to order that, until this subject can be regulated after a more mature deliberation, the following Regulations shall be observed: 1. Spaniards having occasion to trade to the Dominions of America from the Ports of the Peninsula and the adjacent Islands, in Foreign Vessels of friendly and allied Powers, shall be allowed so to do, without the necessity of previously obtaining the Royal permission. 2. Foreign Vessels, of the above description, when sailing from the Spanish Ports of the Peninsula and the adjacent Islands for the Spanish Dominions of America, with a Cargo of commodities, the products and effects wholly of the Kingdom, with the intention of bringing back those of the Colonies, shall pay the export duties to the Indies for articles so laden, and 4 per cent. for the permit given to the Flag. Flour shall continue to be excepted in return Cargoes. 3. On the entrance, directly into Spanish Ports, of Vessels returning with the Cargoes specified in the preceding Article, they shall pay for the goods composing them, the duties of the Tariff of free commerce, (with the modifications which they shall have received, and the alteration directed by the Royal order of February 1, 1825, in respect to coffee and sugar) and 8 per cent. for the permission granted to the Flag. But if they touch at any Foreign Port, they shall pay 12 per cent. for such permission, unless it can be satisfactorily established, that they were forced to put into a Foreign. Port, and that the Cargo was neither unloaded nor transhipped. 4. Foreign Vessels of the above description, sailing from Spanish Ports for the Spanish Dominions of America, with half, or a third part of a cargo of commodities, the products and effects of the Kingdom, and the remainder of Foreign goods, shall pay, 1st, the duties levied on National goods exported to the Indies; 2dly, the 2 per cent. transit duty for Foreign goods, without any other duty on account of their being Foreign; 3dly, 8 per cent. for permission in favour of the Flag. 5. On the entrance direct into the Spanish Ports, of Vessels returning with the Cargo specified in the preceding Article, they shall pay for the goods composing those Cargoes, the duties of the Tariff for free commerce, and 10 per cent. for the permission of the Flag. But if they touch at a Foreign Port, they shall pay 16 per cent. additional for the permission of the Flag, unless it be fully proved that the arrival was forced, and that the Cargo was neither unloaded nor transhipped. 6. Should His Majesty think proper to rescind or alter the present provisions, the Merchants will be duly informed thereof. 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.) 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. 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 Militia.-Pay and Clothing of the Organised Auxiliary Militia of the Army, and Office Expenses.... Invalids.-Allowances to Invalids, granted up to the 2nd inst. Artificers.-Expenses of the Manufactory of Gunpowder in Dollars. 12,870 224,440 46,872 1,183,820 676,080 326,568 24,408 115,753 7,200 87,403 261,333 35,988 25,061 60,000 stant consumption... Parks of Artillery-To supply these with the articles of con Rations. Rations of Forage, there not being many Cavalry mounted....... 50,000 20,000 100,000 Engineers.-Personal Expenses, supposed to be about....... Fortifications. For the more urgent expenses of this branch, about |