Star.
London, England, 1826-08-05 00:00:00

COLOMBIA.

The following are the principal articles of the Dectee
which passed the Colombian Congress on the 19th of
May last, for consolidating the whole debt of the Re-
public, boils foreign and domestic, and for providing
for the payment of the interest :
A RT. I. The Colombian Republic recognizes as national debts:-
1. The sum of 2,000,000:. sterling, contracted in the name of
the Republic at Paris by Francisco Antonio Zea, in March,
1822, without prejudice to the duties belonging to the Republic,
for the liquidation which the law of the Ist -of July, 1823, ordered.
The sum of 4,750,0001. sterling, contracted in Calais on the
14th of April, 1824, by Manuel Antonio Arrublas and Francisco
Montoya.-3. The sum explained and liquidated by the Com-
mission of Liquidation, established in this capital, and which up to
this day amounts to 1,181,470 dollars and 78 reals and the sum
which may subsequently be explained and liquidated by the same
commission conformable to the law on the subject.-4. The sum
of 814,710 dollars, which was contracted and is unpaid, in virtue of
the loan decreed by the law of the 25d of July, 1823, year 13, ro
cover the military furnishing fur the troops and officers of Apure;
and the sum which Will be contracted for the perfect fulfilment of
the said law.-5. The sum which remains unsatisfied Of the
5,458,600 dollars for military property, which, according to the law
of the 28th of September,lB2l, year 11, which was declared to the
servants of the Republic, aid what further may hereafter be de-
clared in virtue of the said law.-6. The sum which may exist
without payment of the half of the allowances withheld from the
civil and military servants of the Republic, by the decree of the
Pet sideut Liberator, of .the 14th September, 1819, of which sum
the Secretary of Finance shall render an account to the next Con-
gress, in the first days of its sitting.-7. The sum arising from the
third of the pay, withheld from the same persons by the law of the
Bth of October, 1821, year 11, of which suns the Secretary of Fi-
nance shall have to render an account to the next Congress, in the
tirst days of its sitting.
Alt I I. It is declared—l. That the foreign debt mentioned in
1 and 2 of the preceding article has yielded, and shall yield, the in.
serest of six pet cent. per annum, stipulated in the respective con.
tracts.-2. That the debts mentioned in numbers 3 and 4, which
have yielded five per cent. per annum since they were contracted,
shall yield the same in future. But the debts of the same number
3, on which a less or no interest has been paid, shall in future yield
five per cent. per annum, from the date of the inscription in the
great book of the national debt —3. That the debts mentioned in
numb: is 5,6, and 7. shall bear an interest of three per cent. per
annum, from the first of July of the present year 1826.
Art. 111. For the regular payment of the interest, and gradual
! redemption of the foreign debt, the following resources are spe-
cially appropriated :-1. All the clear produce of the revenues of
tobacco.-2. One-eighth of the produce of the customs.-3. The
whole produce of uncultivated lands which may be sold or let.-4.
The whole produce arising from the sale or farming of the mines of
every kind of metal belonging to the Republic.
Att. IV. The following are especially appropriated to the pay-
ment of the domestic debt :-1. The revenue arising from the
mortgages, and sequestrated or confiscated property not yet adjudi-
cated ; and the revenue arising from the property sequestrated or
confiscated by the laws of October 1, 1821, year 11 ; and the 29th
of July, 1824, year 14.-2. The revenue arising from the property
of Majurats, which, conformable to the law of theist of July, year
14, are to be included in the national property.-3. The revenue
6f the lands and other property within the territory of the Repub-
lic, and which, under any title whatever, belonged to the Republic
as national property.-4. The revenue of property and temporalities
which have not been alienated or adjudicated.-5. The revenue of
the property belonging to the extinct Inquisition which may not
yet be transferred or adjudicated.-6. The revenues arising from
mortgages on real propetiy condemned, and which may be realised
in troney.-7. The clear produce of the sealed paper, and the fines
which arise from the infraction of the law, regulating its use.-8.,
The produce arising from the notification of hypothics, and of the
registration of deeds and titles.-9. The produce of the duty on.
auctions or sales.-10. The ninth of the tithes which were to be
consolidated.-11. Ten per cent. on all municipal revenues.-12.
That part of the 'tithes allotted to dignitaries, canonships, preben-
daries, and deaneries, which may be vacant, or shall become vacant
in the different cathedrals of Colombia.-13. The fines liable to be
paid for infraction of conditions, under which exclusive privileges !
have been granted—or for the non-fulfilment of contractseoncladed
with the executive powers.-14. The revenues and property for-
silkily appropriated to the Caw of Nobles at Madrid.
Art. V. For the redemption of the capital of the domestic debt
are exclusively appropriated the produce of the sale of all the landed
property mentioned in Article IV. in Nos. 1,2, 3,4, and 5, solely ,
excepting the property sequestrated in virtue of the laws of the Ist
of October, 192.1, and 519th of July, 1824.
Art. VI. To the funds for the foreign debt accrue all the sur-
pluses appropriated to the payment of the interest of the domestic
debt, the same being satisfied.
Art. VII. The special appropriation of the said revenues and
property, for the payment of the interest and gradual extinction of
the national debt, does not do away with the obligation by which
all the other revenues of the Republic are hound to make good the
deficit which may arise after the above appropriation, because all
these revenues are declared to he pledged for the debt.
Ait. XIV. The Commission of National Credit shall annually
render an account of all its proceedings, shewhig in detail the state
of the national debt, the receipts of the funds at its disposal for the
fulfilment of this law, their application, and the improvements re.
lative so the national debt, which its knowledge and experience may
suggest.
Art. XV. The Commission shall also present to the Congress,
on its next meeting, a particular account of all the landed property
appropriated to the payment of the debt, and of its value, in order
that the Congress may determine on its sale, when, and in what
planner, it may think proper.
Art. XVI. 'the Commission shall also annually submit all its
books and documents to the examination of the Chamber of Re-
presentatives, thruugh the medium of a Committee or Committees
appointed fur that purpose by the Chamber, and composed of its
own members.
Art. XVI I. Among the books of account which the Commission
may think fit to keep, there shall be one entitled " The Great Sub-
iddiary Book of the National Debt," in which shall be individually
entered all the items of the different kinds of debt which are by this
law recognised as national, and also those which may be extinguished.
this book shall be annually presented, to be tiansctibcd into the
grand hook mentioned in Article 8.
Art. XXIII. All the bonds issued in Colombia for the debt
already liquidated, until the 30th of June of the present year, shall
bear the date of July, and the Commission of National Credit, at the
moment of renewing the bonds, which may have been issued by the
Minister of Finance, shall add to the capital the interest arising on
the said bonds till the 30th of June of the present year.
Art. XX IV. To facilitate the reckueing aid payment of the
interest of the current debt, which is not liquidated, the account
shall be made up to the last day of December, atiteriur and next to
that in which the liquidation is to lie elh.ctetl.
Art XXVI. The interest due., or which may hereafter become
due, on the debt contracted in Europe, as well as the kinds destined
for its gradtial extinction, shall be paid at the periods and in the
place stipulated at the contract. Fur this purpose the counniesiun
of national credit shall place at the disposal ut the Executive Go.
vet i.ment these sums, and those mentiuned in Art. ii, in order that
the payment may be opportunely readaed without any other appli-
cation being made of the said sums.
Art. XXVI I. The lute-rest upon the domestic debt, from the I
fir.t of July to the present year, shall be paid half-yearly dining the
thirty days ot the mouths of January and July; but the first pay.
seem shall be made ia the course of the thirty days of the month of
July, 1827.
Art. XXVI 11. In order that the interest of the domestic debt
may be punctually paid, and false bonds at the same time detected
anti marked, the holders of bonds shall deliver, from the year IVO
forward. to the commission of credit, or to persons appointed by it
for making payments between the 19th and 20th of June and the
' 19th and loth December, correct Hats of the bonds which they
hold, -prettying the value, number, and mark of each.
• Art. XXIX. On the payment of the interest of the last half
! year, there shall be requited from the holder of the bond which has
been presented, a precise and circumstantial account of its number;
and if tluring ten successive years the interest be not dentauded,
the same shall remain in the Ka-public. '

' Art. X LVII. The law of the 28th of September, 1821, and any'
other laws, in so far as they may be conttary to the present, are
abrogated-
• &goal, May 19.1826. •,
Lois A. BA RALT, President of the Senate.
Lots VARGAS MAMA Secretary of the Senate.
Lam4sao &EA, Vice-President of the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives.
• MARIAN/ Mmo. Secretary for the Chamber.
Palace of the Government, May 27.
FRANCISCO OR P. SANTANDA Vice-President of the Tfeptiblici
Joss ?d. Dm. CASTILLO, Secretary of State for Finance.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1826.

. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off yes-
terday, 79.1 to i for the Account; soon after they.becatne byers at
791, ate/filch price several lots were done : since which the market
has receded to the opening price, with a firm appearance. Money
is so plentifulthat the Bankers are everywhere in search for good
hills to discount at 2/ to 3 per Cent. Consols have just fallen to
78/ 79.

The Foreign Market remains steady, with little doing at present.
Current prices : Old Spanish 91 10, Mexican 531 Colomkian
35 #. Russian 84 b, Brazilian Shares IS 16 piem. Brazilian Bonds
60 61, Greek 12. Exchequer Bills 18 to 20 prem.

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, which were in the earlier part of the morning at 79i to
*, have since receded to 784, owing to a reaction having taken place,,
supposed in consequence of some of the parties having realised.
Up to the present time Consols may be quoted at 781 j for the Ac-
count, and for Money the same as for time ; and th• Market looking
rather heavy. We can state, from a goad source, that the next
Quarter's Revenue, up to the present time, is very productive,
although it will prove a heavy Quarter.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 200 202%
S per Cent. Bed. 7954 V 4
3 per Cent. Consols 791/4 78%
3i per Coil. Bed. 86% 1h
4 per Cent.. 943. t 14
4 per Cent. 1826, 95
Long Ann. 1914 .5 16
New Annuities 78%
£l,OOO Exchey. Bills 21 18
£5OO ditto 21 18
£lOO and £2OO ditto 21 18
Cons. for Account 791/4 78%
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Colombian Bonds I Peruv. 1.3da..4 p C._27

Do. Bonds, 1824, 35
Danibb Ponds, 3 pCt. 571

Ditto for Acc. 27
Una. Ms, 1822, 8 p C. 84 3a a
___

Vv. Acc. 58/ 71 Ditto Acct. 841
Greek 800da.1825, Sp C. 13 Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 10
Ditto Acct. 121 15 Span. sp. C. 182.3, 7
Mex. lids 1825, 6p. Ct. 536 k I Ditto Acct. .
50 French !denies, 3 p C. 86f 50c
Mex. Acct. 531 I I a Exchange, 25f 60c
URITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.

SRA %IL TA in.
Brazilian 100 15 351
Castello & Espirito Santo 100 5 31
Haytien 100 5 I /
Real del Monte 400 400 330
United Alezican 40 221 131
Alliance British & For. 100 10 7
Continental Gas 100 $ 11
General Steam Navigation 100 10 41
FRENCH FUNDS, Non, AUGUST 3.
Five per Cents. . I uOf. 15c.
. .
Three per Cents. . . . 60.

Renteide Nap's*

Spanish Bona -
rszchange,at Three Months
Money • •

' 72f. 23c. -
6f.
25f. 65c.
$5l. 50c.

The German Papers received this morning are bar-
ren of leading political information. We subjoin an
article from Berlin, in the Allgemeine Zeitung, of the
29th ult. on the report of the Russian conspiracy. The
tower of the Town Hall, at Limberg, fell op the 14th
ult. and killed several persons, but the damage was not
so extensive as might have been anticipated. The ac-
counts of the harvest generally, and the vintages in par-
ticular, are very favourable.