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 JUSTICE — FINANCE

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There is at Montevideo a university, with 4,165 students and 344 teachers in 1920. There are also a preparatory school and 22 other establishments for secondary and higher education with 4,943 pupils in 1919. There are normal schools for males and for females, and a school of arts and trades supported by the State where 185 pupils receive instruction gratuitously. At the military college, with 8 professors, there are 46 .pupils. There are also many religious seminaries throughout the Republic with a considerable number of pupils, a university for women, a school for the blind, and one for the deaf and dumb, and a school of domestic science.

For the relief of poverty there are a charity hospital, an hospital for the insane, an isolation hospital, an asylum for beggars, an orphan asylum, and 3 infant schools. The Asisteneia Publica is an institution which has general charge of hospitals, asylums, dispensaries, and similar relief works all over the country. For 1919-20 its budget was fixed at 3,711,173 pesos.

Justice.

The judicial power rests with the High Court of Justice, con- sisting of 5 judges elected by the General Assembly of the Chambers. The President is chosen ■ annually by the members of the Court from amongst themselves. This court has original jurisdiction in constitu- tional, international, and admiralty cases, and will hear appeals in cases in which the decision has been modified or altered in other appeal courts, of which there are 2 each with 3 judges. In Montevideo there are also 3 courts for ordinary civil cases, 2 for commercial cases, 1 for Government, 2 for criminal cases, 2 correctional courts, and 3 for criminal investigation. Each depart- mental capital has a departmental court, and each of the 214 judicial sections into which the Republic is divided has a justice of peace court ; further. each section is divided into districts, in which deputy judges (alcaldes) try cases involving small amounts.

In September 1907 the death penalty was abolished, penal servitude for a period of 30 to 40 years being put in its place.

Finance.

The receipts and expenditure for recent years are stated as follows : —

Receipt* Expenditure

1914-15 1816-16 1916-17

£

7,621,082 7,034,698 5,643,401

£

7.3— .•••-'»

MBQ.US

5,942,489

1917-18 191S-19 1920-21

Receipts Expenditure

£ 6,266,261 7,474,959 8,137,015

£ 6,281,20.} 6,281,204

The estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1920-21 x were (4 7 dollars

Revenue

Customs .... Property tax Trade licences Factory and tobacco taxes. Stamped paper and stamps 8urtaxes on imports and exports .... Other receipt*

Dolla

Expenditure

Dollars

17,000,000

4. -■_••."•••'

1,750,000

1,700,000

750,000

1,000,000 11,328,975


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Legislature.

Presidency.

Ministry Foreign Affairs ,, Interior

,, Finance

,, Industries.

., Public Works ,, War and Marine

Public instruction

Justice

National obligations.

Total.

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