(a) There was to be only one college, which would expedite all the business connected with the department.
(b) Order and economy were the sole means of restoring the finances, to the exclusion of all projects which were not based on those principles.
(c) All the royal resources would flow into the general treasury, and thence be distributed to the other departments, so that the king might more easily survey the state of his revenues.
(d) Efforts would be made to simplify the collection of the taxes for the relief of the subjects.
(e) The usual payments in kind would be converted into pecuniary payments, in order to encourage the industry of the countrymen, and remove the existing abuses.
(f) The expenses of the state would be kept entirely distinct from the private outlay for the king and the royal family.
(g) Those factories which, owing to the nature of the country, were not self-supporting, would not be maintained at the expense of the king, and the support of others would merely be reduced to bounties, so that the king might not have any share in them; which was also regulated with reference to commerce.
(h) The crown domains would be farmed out.
(i) At the beginning of each year the budget expenses would be settled, and not exceeded during the year.