[clxii. 26]

1820 Aug. 15

I. Estimate the first. Estimate of the whole expence of Government, on the supposition that no one of all the distant dependencies is to be kept.

II Estimate the second - Under the head of each such dependency, supposing it in peaceable possession, and intended to be kept. Estimate of the expenditure proposed to be made in Spain for keeping it so; dividing the expenditure according to the department of government to which it belongs; for example, military land service, sea service, civil department, judicial department; add the expence of the department of general super intendence destined to have charge, in Spain, of the aggregate body of those same distant dependencies: whether called Council of the Indies or by any other name - III. Estimate the third. Under the head of each such distant dependency, or groupe of connected dependencies, not now in possession. Estimate of the force regarded as necessary to the endeavour to repossess it, of the expence necessary for the raising of such force, and of the annual expence necessary for the maintenance of it. IV Estimate the fourth. To set against the above mass of expence, Estimate of the annual sum proposed to be extracted from each such dependency, and placed at the disposal of Government in Spain, in such sort as, by the whole amount of it, to operate in diminution of the taxes that would otherwise be imposed on, and borne by, the people in Spain: under the head of each such dependency, stating the taxes, or other sources of revenue, from which the money is proposed to be extracted.