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to about $8,000,000; which will be totally extinguished in 
1879, by the payments annually made according to the treaty. 
The paper money in circulation amounts to between two and 
three millions of American dollars in value. 
ARMY. 
Every Haytian has been trained to military duty. The 
armed force of the nation has always been large. The standing 
army of the Republic, under Boyer, was 40,000 men ; and 
under Soulouque, shortly before his abdication, it reached 
22,000. The history of the country will explain this extraor¬ 
dinary fact, by showing how the maintenance of the national 
Independence, and the rivalries of rulers, have seemed to render 
a numerous armed body indispensable. The reduction of this 
force to the lowest possible point, is a reform that every patriot 
desires to see accomplished, and one which the present admin¬ 
istration is rapidly achieving. The army has already been 
reduced to 10,900 men. It is thus organized and divided : 
82 regiments of Infantry - - - 6,400 men. 
4 regiments of Artillery - 1,000 
8 Corps de Garde ----- 3,000 
Cavalry. 500 
10,900 “ 
The police, which is also an armed body, numbers 3,100 
men. 
Not more than one half of the army is engaged in duty at 
the same time; for it is otherwise organized than the forces of 
the United States. “ The armed force,” says a Haytian author, 
“ is divided into the paid National Guard and the unpaid 
National Guard. The first class includes all those who live 
under the rule of military discipline; the- second class, every 
one capable of bearing arms, — which the law makes the duty 
of all men between the ages of fifteen and sixty years. Ordi¬ 
narily, but a very small number of the soldiers, (the first class,) 
are in service each week in their respective garrisons or cantons, 
