EXPENDITURE FOR THE ANNUAL SERVICE.
Ix the branch of the subject we have just presented to our readers, we adopted, with regard to the Military and Civil departments, but one lead- ing distinction. In that to which we have now approached, the more complicated nature of the ramifications renders a different division desir- able. In effecting this, we have followed what seemed to be the nature of the subject, or rather the course which the money takes. We there- fore commence with the departments which collect the Supplies, pro- ceed to those which profess to control their Expenditure, and terminate with those which spend them. We have placed the Military and Naval Establishments first, out of respect to their greater cost (dear things being always the best); we then proceed to the numerous Civil depart- ments ; teal wind up our account with the Miscellaneous Charges. The Management of the Debt, we have placed immediately after the Cost of Collection, partly for reasons which the reader will collect when he reads the article, but chiefly because any thing connected with the Debt seems, from the magnitude of its relation, entitled to priority.
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