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 112 THE BRITISH EMPIRE; — CYPRUS

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CYPRUS.

High Commissioner. — Major Sir H. J. Goold-Adanis, G.C.M.G., C.B., appointed 1911 ; salary, 3,000Z. Cliie.f Secretary.— CaiT^tain C. W. J. Orr, late R.A. (800Z.)

The island is the third largest in the Mediterranean, 60 miles from the coast of Asia Minor and 41 from the coast of Syria. It is administered by Great Britain, under a convention concluded with the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople, June 4, 1878. The British High Commissioner is assisted by an Executive Council, consisting of the Chief Secretary, the King's Ad- vocate, the Treasurer. The Legislature consists of eighteen members, six being of&ce holders — the Chief Secretary, the King's Advocate, the Treasurer, the Chief Medical Officer, the Commissioner of Nicosia and the Principal Forest Officer — and twelve elected (for five years), three by Mohammedan and nine by non-Mohammedan voters. The voters are all male Ottomans, or British subjects, or foreigners twenty-one years of age, who have resided five years, and are payers of any of the taxes known as 'Verghis.' Municipal councils exist in the principal towns, elected prac tically by all resident householders and ratepayers. Those eligible to the council must be voters rated upon property of the annual value of from lOZ. to 20Z., according to population.

Area 3,584 square miles. Population, Census 1911 :— 139,383 males, 134,725 females; total, 274,108 (including 144 military population). Mohammedans 56,428 ; Christians (Greek Church), 214,480 ; others, 3,200. Inhabitants per square mile, 76 '48.