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Schoenrich, Otto

"A Country with a Future"

. 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.


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