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.
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