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GERMAN EMPIRE: — BAVARIA

a Lower House. The Upper House — Chamber of ' Reichsrate, ' or councillors of the realm — consists at present of 18 royal princes, 2 crown dif^nitaries, the 2 archbishops, the heads of 17 mediatized houses, and 32 other hereditary ' Reichsrate ' ; a Roman Catholic bishop, the president of the Protestant Oberconsistorium, and 18 life-members appointed by the Crown. The number of life-members so appointed must not exceed one-third of the hereditary councillors. According to the law of April 6, 1906, the election of deputies is direct and secret. Entitled to vote is every citizen who has completed his 25th year, has been a citizen, and has for at least a year paid a direct tax. Eligible as a deputy is every citizen entitled to vote unless there are definite grounds for his exclusion. The number of deputies is fixed at 163, calculated at the average rate of 1 for every 38,000 inhabitants. Deputies are elected for 6 years. They receive 1801. for a regular session (in which the budget is presented), and 15s. a day during an extraordinary session, and are entitled during session, and for 8 days before and 8 days after, to travel free over the State railways. Members of the Upper House are unpaid, but have free railway passes.

The executive is carried on, in the name of the king, by a ' Staatsrat, ' or Council of State, consisting of nine members, besides the Ministers and one prince of the blood-royal ; and by the Ministry as a whole, made up of seven departments, namely, of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs, of Justice, of the Interior, of Education and Ecclesiastical Aff'airs, of Finance, "* Communications, and of War.

Area and Population :—

1

I

of

Population

Pop. per

1

Area, Eng. sq. miles

sq. mile

Regierungsbezirke

1910

1905

1910

Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern)

6,686

1,532,065

1,414,224

229-1

Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern).

4,298

724,331

707,367

168-5

Palatinate (Rheinpfalz)

2,372

937,085

885,833

352-8

Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz)

3,862

600,284

574,693

155-5

Upper Franconia (Oberfranken).

2,798

661,862

637,700

200-8

Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken)

3,036

930,868

868,846

306-9

Lower Franconia (Unterfranken).

3,360

, 710,943

682,532

211-6

Suabia (Schwaben)

3,934

30,346

789,853

753,177

2007

Total. .

6,887,291

6,524,372

226-9

To the area has to be added 257 square miles for water. The total population at the end of 1910 was 6,887,291 (3,379,580 males and 3,507,711 females).

The increase of the population since 1880 has been as follows :—

Annual Increase

Year

Population

Population per sq. mile

per cent.

1885

5,420,199

185-1

0-51

1890

5,594,982

191-0

0*63

1895

5,818,544

198-7

0-78

1900

6,176,057

210-9

1-22

1905

6,524,372

222-3

1-12

1910

6,887,291

226-9

1-12