Dr.

SECTION B. ARTICLES which have relation to the Penal Proceedings of Finance.

Number
of the

Duty

collected Annexes

in the
of the

other State
adjoined
Documents

evasion of
Clearance.

Collections made by this
State on requisitions from the

other State concerning
Financial Contraventions, for

Authorities

Number
from whence the
respective of the

Duty
Documents come,

collected

Annexes with the

of the

on account
Vouchers and the

of the
Dates and Num. adjoined
bers of the

other State

Documents
Documents,

for evasion

taken on

Progressive Number.

for

Expenses

of Pro-
ceedings
taken by
the other
State on
account of
this State.

Imposts.

Fines.

Expenses

of Proceedings.

State.

of Clearance

Sum.

Total Lire.

Total Lire.

CONSTITUTION of the Argentine Republic.-Santa Fé, Sep

tember 25, 1860. (Translation.)

We, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation, assembled in General Constituent Congress by the will and election of the provinces composing the nation, in fulfilment of pre-existing compacts, for the purpose of constituting the national Union, assuring justice, consolidating internal peace, providing for the common defence, promoting the general welfare, and securing the benefits of liberty for ourselves, for our posterity, and for people from all parts of the world who wish to dwell upon Argentine soil; invoking the protection of God, the source of all reason and justice, do order, decree and establish this Constitution for the Argentine Nation.

PART I. Sole Chapter.—Declarations, Rights, and Guarantees. ART. I. The Argentine Nation adopts the Representative, Republican, Federal form of Government, as established by the present Constitution.

II. The Federal Government supports the Apostolic Roman Catholic worship.

III. The authorities which exercise the Federal Government reside in the city which is declared the capital of the Republic by a special law of Congress; the territory to be federalized having been previously ceded by one or more of the Provincial Legislatures.

IV. The Federal Government provides for the expenses of the