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 1 66 GERMANY — ANHALT.

Constitution, Revenue, and Population.

The charter of the duchy bears date August 23, 1829. It provides for a legislative organisation, consisting of one Chamber of twenty- four representatives. Eight of these are elected by the proprietors of nobiliar estates ; eight by the inhabitants of towns, and eight by those of rural districts. The Chamber meets every three years, and new elections take place every six. A small property qualification is requisite to become a member.

The ministry, which is responsible to the Chamber, consists of four departments, namely, the Ministry of the Ducal House and of Foreign Affairs ; the Ministry of the Interior ; the Ministry of Finances ; and the Ministry of Justice, of Education, and of Ecclesiastical Affairs.

The budget estimates for the year 1869 stated the revenue at 1,998,750 florins, or 166,553/., and the expenditure at 1,987,312 florins, or 105,610/. The actual income for 1867 amounted to 2,137,895 florins, or 178,158/, and the actual expenditure to 2,032,152 florins, or 169,346/. Nearly one half of the public revenue is drawn from State domains, formerly belonging to the ducal family. The chief items of expenditure are the interest of the public debt, and the civil list of the duke, which latter, however, is not entered in the budget estimates, but paid out of the revenue of the domains as a first charge thereon. The debt, at the end of 1868, amounted to 4,253,620 florins, or 354,468/., exclusive of a state guarantee on four millions of thaler employed in the construction of a line of railway through the duchy.

The area of the duchy extends over 933 English square miles, with a population, according to the census of 1867, of 180,335 inhabitants. The whole of them at the date were Protestants, with exception of 1,102 Eoman Catholics, 44 Mennonites, and 1,629 Jews.

XIII. ANHALT.

(Herzogthum Anhalt.) Reigning Sovereign and Family.

Leopold, Duke of Anhalt, born Oct. 1, 1794, the son of Prince Friedrich of Anhalt- Dessau, and of Princess Amalia of Hesse-Homburg. Succeeded to the throne at the death of his grandfather, Duke Leopold Friedrich, Aug. 9, 1817 ; married, April 18, 1818, to Princess Friederike of Prussia, who died Jan, 1, 1850. Issue of the union are : — 1. Princess Agnes, born June 24,