_I.--Administration:_ After a discount of 20 per cent. on the wages $ 5,840,306.41 _II.--House of Legislation_ 582,558.00 _III.--Passive Classes:_ That is to say, annual allowances paid to pensioners, civil and military, soldiers disabled by wounds or age, widows and sons of the 33 Orientals who assegurated the national independence in 1825, citizens who took part in the Independence wars, etc. After a discount between 4 and 15 per cent 1,324,503.32 _IV.--Public Debt and Guarantee to Railways_ 5,724,620.24 Various credits 144,394.52 So as to attend to this budget the Republic counts with the following incomes: Customs duties $ 8,577,622.84 Duties on property 1,750,549.54 Licenses 925,535.87 Stamped paper 337,141.31 Stamps 219,548.57 Taxes on manufactures 256,751.59 Postage 203,585.73 Public education 219,251,13 Ports 56,414.46 Duties on Inheritances 127,363.80 Duties on the signature of public acts, being excepted the value of the stamped paper 15,162.02 Police Duties 36,473.40 Revenue of the municipalities in the departments 100,320.92 Duties on amphibious fisheries 7,000.00 Cattle-marks 3,000.00 Duties of 1 per cent. on payments 78,049.51 Civil and military house for pawning 56,534.74 Eventual incomes, and revenue of the renting of lands belonging to the State 15,570.41 -------------- Total $12,985,875.84 NEW DUTIES. Augmentation of the duty on slaughterhouses 80,000.00 Augmentation of the duty on inheritances 140,000.00 Augmentation of the import duties 127,500.00 Augmentation of the municipal duties 100,000.00 A discount of 20 per cent. on the wages of the clerks of the Montevideo municipality 65,350.00 ---------- 512,850.00 RECAPITULATION. Resources $12,985,875.84 New resources 512,850.00 ------------- $13,498,725.84 Weights and Measures. The law of the year 1862 established the metrical system throughout the Republic.