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professors and 3,710 pupils. There are also 35 normal schools with 10,949 pupils. There are 3 universities, at Cordova, Buenos Ayres, and La Plata, comprising faculties of law, medicine, and engineering, with a total of 2,500 students; a school of mines (39 students), 2 colleges of agriculture/ a naval and a military school. There is a well-equii)ped national observatory at Cordoba, and another at La Plata, museums at Buenos Ayres and La Plata, and a meteorological bureau.

Justice.

Justice is exercised by a Supreme Court of five jutlges and an attorney- general, which is also a court of appeal, and by a numljcr of inferior and local courts, trial by jury being established by the Constitution for criminal cases. Each State has its own judicial system.

In 1895 in Buenos Ayres, 4,553 criminal cases were tried. Of those tried on criminal charges 1,227 were Italians, 628 Spaniards, 1,453 Argentines, 29 English. Of the trials 75 were for murder. There were, besides, 14,626 breaches of the peace. The number of prisoners in the national penitentiary at the end of 1896 was 343 (145 Argentine citizens and 198 foreigners).

Finance.

The revenue and expenditure of the Republic are stated as follows : —

Revenue

Expenditure

lears

Dollars Gold

Dollars Paper

21,746,790 21,142,921 28,958,460 29,468,174 61,035,853

Dollars Gold

Dollars Paper

62,411,384 72,015,214 83,933,386 92,122,343 93,427,502

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

31,864,096 28,255,719 29,805,651 32,052,951 30,466,322

18,698,911 19,950,193 24,165,239 46,891,221 29,214,763

The estimated revenue for 1898 Avas 34,759,146 dollars gold, and 52,918,000 dollars paper, and the expenditure 22,100,182 dollars gold, and 97,881,111 dollars paper. For 1899 the Government estimates of revenue and exijenditure were : —

t

Revenue

Dollars Gold

Revenue

Dollars Paper

Customs duties.

28,099,800

Alcohol ,

18,000,000

Port dues, Storage, &c.

2,522,900

Tobacco.

8,849,400

Stamps.

232,300

Other taxes

13,868,400

Prov. of Buenos Aires,

Sanitary works

5,900,000

service of foreign debt

1,360,000

Land tax

2,000,000

National Bank.

208,500

Stamps & licenses

7,314,600

Posts and telegraphs.

4,543,900

Laud sales, leases, &c. .

4,120,000

Bank profits

2,000,000

32,423,500

Various , Total

944,000 67,540,600

Total