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State, such as those relating to the birth and marriage of 

 the Princes, Acts of the Cortes, and other similar matters. 



' 3. THE MINISTER OF WAR. The Secretary of State, 

 entrusted with the despatch of the business of this 

 Ministry, has under his charge all business relating to the 

 personnel, the material, the service and the administration 

 of justice, of the military in peace and in war. The 

 personnel comprises all, from the captain-general of the 

 army to the soldier inclusive. The Government business, 

 of every kind which has reference to these persons, is 

 discharged through the Direction- Generals of the armies 

 of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, and the 

 Inspection- Generals of the organisations of the civil guard, 

 and of the carabineers of the coast and the frontier. These 

 corps, it may be well to remark, depend also, the first on 

 the Ministry of Government, and the second on the Ministry 

 De Hacienda ; they are, however, dependant on all that 

 relates to their organisation, recruiting, and discipline, on 

 the Minister of War. Personal affairs, and privileges 

 of war, are also attended to by this Ministry, with the 

 difference that complaints are sent through the captains- 

 general in their 1 places of retirement, or those in which they 

 reside, and not through the Direction- Generals of the army. 

 Also the material of victuals, clothing, hospitals,and utensils 

 pertaining to the corps of administration and military 

 health, and the armament of the troops, and places for the 

 manufacture of powder, parks of artillery, and foundries, 

 are under charge of the corps of artillery. The works of 

 fortification, with their dependencies in peace and war, 

 pertain to the Corps of military engineers. The service 

 is directed in the provinces by the captains-general, and 

 in the field by the generals-in-chief of the army. 



' Justice is administered by Councils of War, when it 

 has to do with purely military crimes ; and by the 

 tribunals of the captains-general of the provinces when it 

 has to do with civil cases, or criminal trials for common 

 crimes, 



