Department of Agriculture and Immigration.............. 18,740.00
Including office of secretary; experiment fields in
Santiago $3,000; weather bureau $3,980.
Department of Development and Public Works............. 332,596.00
Including office of secretary; lighthouses $13,282;
postal service; telegraph, telephone and wireless
service; upkeep of dredge "Ozama."
Chamber of Accounts.................................... 7,980.00
Miscellaneous.......................................... 61,872.00
Contingent expenses.................................... 25,000.00
Constitutional assembly................................ 10,000.00
Total estimated disbursements, besides debt service ... $2,651,119.30
The figures in the budgets were not, absolute but were subject to
modification by transfer of appropriation through presidential decree.
The contingent expense fund and the military appropriations were thus
frequently swelled at the expense of other services.
The budget above shown was the last one enacted under the old
conditions.
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