368 Mexico: Hacienda 
1. THE SECTIONS. 
Seccién Primera: Registro y Personal (First Section: Register and Per- 
sonnel) registers all communications received in the Secretariat, and dis- 
tributes them among the appropriate desks (mesas) ; has charge of matters 
of the personnel of the Secretariat, as appointments, promotions, leaves of 
absence, dismissal, etc.; and keeps all records of matters pertaining to the 
personnel. 
Seccion Segunda: Bienes Nacionales (Second Section: National Prop- 
erty) keeps an inventory of all real estate of the nation, of contracts by which 
the nation acquires property rights or alienates property, despatches matters 
relative to the construction, preservation, or repair of public edifices, makes 
plans and valuations of public edifices, and keeps records of these matters, 
and estados showing the status of the fixed property of the nation. 
Seccion Tercera: Presupuestos y Asuntos Varios (Third Section: Esti- 
mates and Miscellaneous Affairs) forms the “ initiative” of the annual bud- 
get, collects state laws, contracts, concessions, and fiscal statistics, compiles 
monographs of a fiscal character for publication in the Boletin of the Secre- 
tariat, prepares the annual memoir, and gives opinions relative to the fiscal 
laws of the states, the Direccion de Catastro, the Jefaturas de Hacienda, the 
Direccidn General de Rentas of the territories, the national lottery, the 
Oficina Impresora de Estampillas, etc. 
Seccién Quarta: Sucesiones y Minas (Fourth Section: Successions and 
Mines) supervises the collection of revenues from bequests, intestate prop- 
erty, and mines. It exercises the functions of the extinguished Denfensoria 
Fiscal, intervening in all cases of wills brought before the local courts for the 
purpose of satisfying the interests of the treasury, keeps a register of the 
mines for which titles are issued by the Secretariat of Fomento, reports twice 
a year on overdue imposts on legacies, gives opinions on these matters when 
called on, etc. 
Seccion Quinta: Pagos (Fifth Section: Payments) approves vouchers 
(érdenes de pago) issued by the different secretariats, issues disbursement 
vouchers (6rdenes de pago) for that part of the budget assigned to the 
Secretariat of Hacienda, and supervises the offices of the paymasters 
(pagadores). 
It is the duty of Seccidn Sexta: Archivo y Biblioteca (Sixth Section: 
Archive and Library) to classify, file, and index all documents entrusted to 
its care; to recommend the annual transmittal of useless documents to the 
Oficina Impresora de Estampillas for the manufacture of cardboard; to form 
a prescribed number of files of the Diario Oficial and of dispositions of the 
Secretariat ; to send for publication to the governors of the state and the jefes 
politicos of the territories all general dispositions of and all laws promulgated 
through the Secretariat ; to edit the Boletin de la Secretaria de Hacienda, etc. 
Seccién Séptima: Estadistica (Seventh Section: Statistics) is charged 
with the compilation, publication, and distribution of statistical reports (noti- 
cias y cuadros) relative to the movement of the following branches: importa- 
tion and exportation, international and coast navigation, commerce of the 
northern frontier by railroad, mineral products, precious metals received by 
the mint, federal assays, coinage, production of gold and silver, manufacture 
of tobacco, alcoholics, and cotton fabrics, institutions of credit, insurance 
companies, retail trade, the federal treasury, the public debt, revenue from 
foreign commerce and navigation, from taxes on the precious metals and 
from internal imposts, or relative to any other branch which the minister may 
recommend. These reports are published in the Boletin de Estadistica Fiscal. 
