Total estimated receipts $4,552,700
ESTIMATED DISBURSEMENTS
Service of public debt $1,966,746.86
Legislative power 132,400.00
Including salaries of 12 senators and
24 deputies at $200 per month.
Executive power……………………………….. $ 25,460.00
Expenses of president's office, including salary of
president at $800 per month.
Judicial power…………………………………. 316,160.00 Including salaries of supreme court (with a chief justice at $250 per month, six associate justices at $160, and a state's attorney at $200); 3 courts of appeals (each having a chief justice at $180 per month, 4 associate justices at $140 and a state's attorney at $180); 12 courts of first instance (each having a judge at $150 per month, a state's attorney at $130-$150, and one or two judges of instruction at $130); 3 courts-martial costing $2,916 each; 70 justices of the peace with salaries ranging from $25 to $55 per month; and jails in each province, the jailers receiving from $35 to $69 per month.
Department of Interior and Police…………………. 329,638.00 Including office of secretary of interior, who receives $320 per month; 12 provincial governors with salaries from $160 to $180 per month; 53 communal chiefs, at $30 to $60; church salaries amounting to $3,600; public celebrations $5,100; expenses of sanitation service $15,000; and a long pension list amounting to $188,240. Most of these pensions are of $10, $12 or $15 per month, but 7 widows of former presidents and other distinguished men receive $100 per month.
Department of Foreign Affairs…………………….. 122,572.00
Including office of secretary, whose salary is $320
per month; ministers to the United States, France and
Haiti at $500 per month; charge's in Cuba and
Venezuela at $250; and 23 consuls in the United
States, Porto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, St. Thomas, Panama,
Turks Island, Jamaica, England, France, Italy,
Holland, Spain and Belgium.
Department of Finance and Commerce…………………. 356,678.04 Including office of secretary, who receives $320 per month; general comptroller's office; 10 treasury agents with salaries from $80 to $112 monthly; custom-houses (the collectors of the port receiving from $80 to $200 per month); receiver-general's office $43,152 (the salary of the general receiver is given as $9,848.04 per annum and that of his deputy as $5,988); coast guard service $6,000; wharf repairs $20,000.
Department of War and the Navy……………………. 593,815.26 Including office of secretary; 12 military posts (the commanders receiving from $60 to $150 per month); 10 armories $4,980; military instructors $4,380; president's staff $12,380; one infantry regiment of about 470 officers and men (the colonel receiving $95 monthly, the men $l5); a band of 33 men; a police force, called "republican guard" of about 800 officers and men (salaries ranging from $200 for the brigadier general and $140 for the colonel, to $18 for the private); 2 military hospitals $31,867; a machine shop $4,440; port captains at $50-$90 per month, and doctors at $25-$50; and the gunboat $26,444.