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of the Kingdom of Peru, Chile, Tucunian, Rio de la Plata, Panama, 

 and Nicaragua, who were his suffragans. This college has 8 collegians 

 with blue sashes ; it has some income, and a chacra for its maintenance. 

 There is another college under the Jesuit Fathers, where they take 

 students in as boarding pupils, with a house specially for them ; each 

 pays from 80 to 100 8-real pesos; here they teach them virtue and 

 letters ; ordinarily there are from 50 to 60 collegians. 



1930. The city of Santiago has a hospital for the care of the 

 indigent sick, with a Superintendent appointed by the Governor to 

 administer the property of this hospital for the care and comfort 

 of the poor invalids. It has an income of 700 8-real pesos, and 700 

 more from the i percent assigned it from the ninth of the tithes. 

 Besides this, it has a gristmill, a chacra, and a cattle ranch. It has 

 already been taken over by the Brethren of San Juan de Dios for 

 the service and care of the poor. 



The Circuit Court has its seat in this city. It was established for 

 the second time at His Majesty's instance by Justice Merlo de la 

 Fuente of Lima in the year 1609, on Our Lady's Day in September. 

 It has 4 Justices and an Attorney. The President, who has the title 

 of Capa y Espada (Sword and Gown), usually resides in La Con- 

 cepcion, which is the fortified post of that Kingdom. The Court's 

 jurisdiction extends : on the N., from the Copiapo Valley, which is 

 at 27° S., and the boundary against the Province and deserts of 

 Atacama in the district of the Charcas ; and on the S., as far as the 

 city of Castro in the Chiloe Islands, at 43° S., but that is all war 

 territory. Thus N. and S. it will cover more than 300 leagues in 

 length ; in breadth E. and W. from the snow-clad Cordillera to the 

 sea, at the most 27 leagues and at the least 19; but on the other 

 side of the Cordillera to the E. is the Province of Cviyo ; from 

 Santiago to its farthest point will be over 120 leagues. 



1931. In the district of the Circuit Court there are 2 Dioceses, 

 Santiago and La Concepcion. In that of Santiago there are 5 cities : 

 Santiago, capital of that Kingdom ; La Serena, 70 leagues to the N. ; 

 and in the Province of Cuyo, over to the E. across the Cordillera 

 Nevada, there are 3 cities : San Luis de Loyola, known as Punta 

 de Venados (Deer Point), with some 20 poverty-stricken Spanish 

 residents ; there will be in the neighborhood more than a thousand 

 Huarpes Indians ; they have not yet been settled in villages or con- 

 verted, on account of the weakness of the Spaniards. This city is 

 120 leagues from Santiago. 



