Note 2 — XXXIII THE FINANCES OF THE WAR 1846–1848
Reading edition
Ho. 60; 30, 1, p. 1070, table. Sen. 14; 30, 1, pp. 13–24. 61Scott, memoir on Mexican finances received at the war dept., Jan. 6, 1848. Mexican national accounts were kept in so peculiar a way, and the officials were so much more anxious to conceal than to reveal the truth, that it would be extremely difficult and very likely impossible to state precisely all the details regarding the finances of the government.