140 THE GOVERNMENT. 



district specified. During the period, which must be stated in the edict, the only punishments 

 that can be inflicted legally are imprisonment or translation from one part of the republic to 

 another the penal colony at Magellan, Juan Fernandez, or Atacama. 



Regarding education as of paramount importance, the framers of the constitution of 1833 

 pledge Congress to prepare a general plan for national education, to appoint a superintendent 

 charged with inspecting the modes of instruction, and to instruct the minister under whose 

 control the subject is placed to render an annual account of its progress and all matters per- 

 taining to it throughout the republic. And liberally has Congress voted money, year after 

 year, to carry out the noble purpose, offering instruction, "without money and without price," 

 to all who offer, whether at the primary school or the highest collegiate institution of the land. 

 Passing from administrative and judicial officers to subordinate agents of the government, 

 it need 9nly be stated, that the annual expenditure for those in its employ on the first of Jan- 

 uary, 1851, was: 



For salaries and expenses of Congress $9, 85*7 09 



Intercourse with foreign nations - 56,456 84 



Department of the interior 512,004 48 



Administration of justice - 206,559 22 



Expenses of public worship 195,583 41 



Expenses of education 249,62615 



Salaries and expenses of the treasury department 914,551 54 



Interest and liquidation of internal debt - 72,167 85 



Interest on foreign debt - 514,319 15 



Salary and expenses of war department and army 925,171 95 



Salaries and expenses of national militia - - 159,241 06 



Salaries and expenses of the navy 264,927 97 



Total expenses in 1850 ----- $4,080,466 71 



To meet which there was in the treasury, on the first of January of that year, $2,620,562 78, 

 and there was received during the year 



From duties on imports - - $2,627,442 47 



Sale of monopolies* 718,777 01 



From tithes 363,552 80 



From excise duties 71,542 50 



From tax on land 118,365 01 



From patent privileges - 47,087 00 



From stamped paper 73,270 25 



From profits of the mint - 155,169 47 



From post-offices - 61,521 93 



From tolls on roads and bridges - 46,491 87 



From auctioneers - 4,050 00 



From casual sources 47,044 31 



Total receipts in 1850 - - - - - 4,334,314 62 



The public debt of Chile, most of which was contracted during the revolution, amounted, on 

 the first of August, 1851, to $9,155,975 ; on which the interest has regularly been paid for 

 many years. This sum consists of 7,611 sterling bonds for 100 each, bearing six per cent, 

 interest, and 6,961 similar bonds bearing 3 per cent, interest, all of which were negotiated in 

 England. The original loan, obtained in 1822, was one million pounds sterling, at an interest 



* Tobacco and playing-cards. 



