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 COLONIES AND DEPENDENt IFS

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Colonies and Dependencies.

The colonies and dependencies of France (including Algeria and Tunis) have an area roughly estimated at about 5,119,138 square miles with a population of about 53,582,905. Algeria, however, is not regarded as a colony but as a part of France, and Tunis and Morocco are attached to the Ministry of Foreign A flairs. The administration of the colonies is directed or controlled by the Ministry of the Colonics, which was organised as a separate department in 1894. Most of them enjoy some measure of self-government and have elective councils to assist the governor. The older colonies have also direct representation in the French legislature, Reunion, Martinique and Guadeloupe seudiug each a senator and two deputies : French India a senator and a deputy ; Senegal, Guiana, and Cochin-China each a deputy, while most of the others are represented on the "Conseil Superieur des Colonies." This council consists of the senators and deputies of colonies, delegates from other colonies, and officials and other persons appointed on account of their special knowledge or qualifications. Some only of the colonies have a revenue suffi- cient for the cost of administration. In 1919, France spent on the colonial service 201.835,110 francs, of which 18,001,210 francs were for civil admini- stration, 173,791,000 francs for military services, and 10,042,900 francs for penitentiary services.

The area and population of the colonial domain of France are as follows :

Tear of Area in

Acquisition Square Miles !

In Atia ; — India. Annam Cambodia.

Cochiu-China Tonking. Laos.

Total Asia I In Africa : — Algeria Sahara Tunis Senegal

French Sudau ( Upper Volta I Guinea Ivory Coast Dahomey . Mauritania Military Territory of Niger Congo Cameroon '* To^.2 Reunion . Madagascar Mayotte . Somali Coast.

Total Africa I. 1 Approximate figures.

1679

1S62 1861 LStt

1892

1881 IMF-UN

1S93 1S43

1912 MM 1914

I64y

1643-1396 1«43 lau4

256,000

Population

■2GS,m

16,990,229

1,544,0001

50,000

74.112

617,000

154,400

•

131,970

347. 4- >0

166,4*9

970

22S.000

790

5,790

5,563,82S

800,000 1 1,953,000 1.204,113

3,«K>,10O 1.S5'.,

44

70"..

10.000,000

1,500.000

500,000

174,000

3,512,690

97,000

•.'.00

4.s2".'-;s


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