ALCALDE, Vice-President to Francisco Vaca, Secretary. Elenterio Avila, Secretary, April 2, 1868
Department of Treasury and Public Credit.
The citizen President of the republic has been pleased to direct to me the following decree:
Benito Juarez, constitutional President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the same; be it known that the congress of the Union has thought proper to issue the following decree:
The congress of the Union decrees:
Article I. The monthly expenses of the federation will be made in conformity with the following provisions:
| 1st. There is assigned to the department of relations, for the expenses of administration, the sum of nine thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars | $9,395 00 |
| 2d. That of government, eighty-five thousand and eighty-three dollars thirty-three cents | 85,083 33 |
| 3d. That of justice and public instruction, sixty-six thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars seventy-three cents | 66,263 73 |
| 4th. To that of fomento, one hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars | 175,115 00 |
| 5th. To that of war, for expenses of administration, five hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars fifty cents | 512,597 50 |
| 6th. For the same, for material and extraordinary expenses, ninety thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars eight cents | 90,622 08 |
| 7th. For the same, to place five thousand dollars at the disposal of each of the States of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, and Nuevo Leon, for the purpose of the defense of those States against the babarous Indians, twenty-thousand dollars | 20,000 00 |
| 8th. To that of the department of treasury, for the expenses of administration and pensions, one hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars twenty-one cents | 180,458 21 |
| Total | 1,139,534 85 |
Art. II. The preceding estimates being met, the excess which there may be in the revenue shall be applied to the payment of the national debt.
Art. III. This law will remain in force until congress shall decree that of permanent estimates, in conformity with the provisions of article 69 of the constitution.
Francisco Vaca, Secretary.
Elenterio Avila, Secretary.
Wherefore I order that it be printed, published, circulated, and that due compliance be given to it.
The Citizen Matias Romero, Minister of Treasury and Public Credit.
And I communicate the same to you for your information and the corresponding ends.