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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — HONDURAS, BRITISH

dollars, and there are Government currency notes of one and two dollars. The face value of the latter in circulation at 31 December, 1919, was 97,1881.

Books of Reference.

Blue Book of the Colony, and Colonial Report. Annual.

General Information with regard to the Gold, Diamond and Forest Industries of British Guiana. Issued by the Government.

Anderson (C. W.), Compendium of General Information relating to British Guiana. Issued by the Government, 1912.

Bayley (G. D.), Handbook of British Guiana. Revised edition. Georgetown, 1912.

Beebe (YV.), Hartly (G. I.), and Bowes (P. G.), Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana. New York, 1917.

British Guiana Handbook, 1913. Georgetown, 1913.

Bronkhurst (H. V. P.), Descriptive and Historical Geography of British Guiana and West India Islands. Demerara, 1890.

dementi (Mrs. Cecil), M.B.E., Through British Guiana. London, 1920.

Crookall(L.), British Guiana: Work among Creoles, Coolies, Ac. London, 1898.

Harrison (J. B.). British Guiana and its Resources. London, The West India Com- mittee, 1907.— The Goldfields of British Guiann. London, 1908.

Harrison (J. B.) and Stockdale (F. A.), Rubber and Balata in British Guiana. British GUiana, 1911.

Im Thurn(E. F.), Among the Indians of Guiana. London, 1883.

Kirkt (H), Twenty-five Years in British Guiana. London, 1898.

Rodway (J.), History of British Guiana. Georgetown, 1893. — Handbook of British Guiana. Georgetown.— In the Guiana Forest. London, 1894.— Guiana : British, Dutch, and French. London, 1912.

Voeux (Sir G. W. des), My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Ac. S vol*. London, 1903.

See alto under Venezuela.

HONDURAS, BRITISH.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief. — E. Hutson, C.M.G. (2.000Z. ), assisted by an Executive Council of six members, and a Legislative Council consisting of rive official and seven unofficial members.

British Honduras is a Crown colony on the Caribbean Sea, south of Yucatan, and 660 miles west from Jamaica, noted for its production of ma- hogany and logwood. Area, 8,592 square miles. Population at census of April 2, 1911, 40,458 (20,374 males, and 20,084 females). Estimated population, December 31, 1919, 43,5S6.

The birth-rate per 1,000 (1919) was 33 9, and the death-rate 27'6. Ille- gitimate births, 42*40 per cent, of births. In 1919 there were 422 marriage.-. Primary schools (1919), 57; children enrolled, 5,482 ; average attendance, 3,992 ; Government grant (expended), 5,332Z. There are 3 schools with secondary departments, with altogether about 362 pupils. They arc under denominational management and none receive aid from Government. The town of Belize is a Centre for the Cambridge Local Examinations. In 1919, 1,427 persons were convicted in police courts, and 106 in the Supreme Court. The police force contains (January 1, 1920) 110 men. Chief town, Belize ; population, census of 1911, 10,478 (4,601 males, and 5,877 females).

Revenue Expenditure 1 Imports- Exports 1

1918-14 (Pre- War)

£ 121,480 125,274 654,769 642,613

1910-17

£ 131,782 126,294 553,765 523,323

1917-18

£ 189,141

715,0«G 751,112

1918-19

i»it sp

219,264

202,020 939,043

1 Including expenditure from loans.

• Calendar yean 1913, 1916-1819, and including bullion and specie.