402
SPAIN.
external internal
Description of Debt Debt, redeemable, of the 1st class 2nd „ 2nd „ „ perpetual, at 4%, internal
5°/ „ » 5%> external
Bonds, not consolidated .... Debt, provisional ..... „ floating, 5% (paper) „ without interest . . ,, passive, external . . . •
„ share of the civil corporations in tithes Bonds in favour of the clergy . interests on those capitals Provisional documents for the interests of the floatin External old debt, at 5% ...
„ perpetual, at 3%, of 1831 . „ deferred, without interests, of 1S31 , ,, premium, of 1834
Shares of the national loan of 1821 . Bills, of the first loan, Laffitte . Shares, of the public roads loan
,, railways „
Treasury bonds, to the bearer, for railways Shares, of public works .... Bills on the treasury for materials . for individuals .
debt
Amount in EefiJes
232,900,484
613,120,000
237.170,1)00
20,379,565
82,454,605
7,476,000
30,753,121
28,898,517
378,103,186
154,546,069
13,760,000
52,955,003
11,939,143
958,857
88,613.297
76,120,000
1,282,133
84,958,000
19,764,000
3,564,000
2,212,760
187,639,000
315.01 '0
307,338,000
70,512,000
14,109,946
483,835,530
Total
fEeales 16,397,747,225 1 £ 163,977,472
The 3 per Cents, were created by the Convention of the 17 th February, 1834, for the settlement of American claims. The 3 per Cent. Consols, interior and exterior, comprise, first, liabilities issued in conformity with a decree of the 21st January, 1841, which authorised the capitalisation into 3 per cent, stock of the interest payable on the consolidated debt at 4 and 5 per cent., in- terior and exterior, due, but not then liquidated ; secondly, the conversion of bills on the Treasury by contract ; thirdly, the con- version of Treasury bonds of the colonies, approved by law of the 14th February, 1845; fourthly, interest upon the capital held by the layholders of tithes, guaranteed by law of 2nd September, 1841, and 20th March, 1846 ; fifthly, capital created for the amorti- sation of the 60,000,000 reals, or G00,000L, English claims at 5 per cent., recognised by the Convention of the 28th October, 1828, and for the conversion of the deferred consolidated debt, acknowledged by law, 1st of October, 1852 ; and, lastly, the issue made under the laws of the 23rd February, 1855, and 31st May and 17th December, 185G. In 1851, on account of the inability of the Government to meet its en'nio-ements in full, a portion of the debt of Spain was converted
