Royal decree., January fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five

Royal decree.

In view of the representations of the minister of finance, and in accord with my council of ministers, I decree the following:

• Article 1. The estimate of ecclesiastical obligations corresponding to the current economical, year, which is embraced in the third section of obligations of the ministerial departments, minis try of grace and justice, to the amount of pesetas 3,251,014.46, is hereby declared augmented to the sum total of pesetas 41,611,674, which is the amount of the same appropriation in the budget of 1870–’71, the last in which were consigned all the allowances for public worship and the clergy. This augmentation shall be understood as relating exclusively to the proportional part necessary to satisfy the obligations falling due from the first of the present month to the end of the economical year, and with the same detailed distribution as in the aforesaid budget of 1870–’71.
• Article 2. The obligations proper to the budget, re-established by the foregoing article, shall be paid to the clergy in the accustomed form and at the same times when payment shall be made of the salaries of all the active classes of the state, according as the same shall be permitted by the preferent needs of the civil war.
• Article 3. The arrears which may result in favor of the clergy on account of obligations in the previous budgets, and for sums due but not paid by the public treasury in the course of the current one, shall be the object of a liquidation which shall be effected at once, to the end that, the amount thereof being determined, the form in which satisfaction is to be made may be decided upon.
• Article 4. The minister of finance shall order whatever is requisite for the execution of this decree, of which he shall in due time give account to the Cortes.