Drachmas.
Foreign Affairs, 394,712
Justice, 904,902
Interior, 1,073,182
Religion and Education, 651,658
War Department, 5,255,804
Navy, 1,404,465
Finances, 486,600
Expenses of managing the Revenue, which, in
all preceding years, has been a part of the
expenses of the Finance Department, 1,564,222
Another section of Finance Department, 60,000
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Making a total of 11,735,546
The expenses of the Greek government which have been imposed on the
country by the protecting powers, but never yet approved of by the Greek
nation, are as follows:--
Drachmas.
Interest and sinking fund of debt due to the three
protecting powers, debt to Bavaria, and pensions, 4,703,232
Civil list of King Otho, 1,209,064
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5,912,296
It seems that the allies have made a very liberal allowance to King Otho.
The monarch and his council of state cost more than the whole civil
administration of the country, and almost as much as the Greek navy.
We humbly conceive that a court of equity would strike out the Bavarian
loan as illegally contracted, and forming a private debt between the two
monarchs of Bavaria and Greece--that it would diminish the claim of the
protecting powers, by expunging all those sums which have been spent among
themselves or on strangers, with their consent--that it would reduce the
civil list of the king and the council of state to 500,000 drachmas--and
that it would order the immediate convocation of a national assembly, in
order to take measures for improving the revenues of the country.
If the allied powers will form themselves into this court of equity, and
follow the course we have suggested, we have no doubt that in a very short
period no kingdom in Europe will have its finances in a more flourishing
condition than Greece.
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