510 



MEXICO. 



Methodist Eniscopal Church, 2; the Union 

 American Protestant Church, 2 ; the Method- 

 ist Protestant Church, 6 ; the American Wes- 

 leyan Church, 4; the Free Methodist Church, 

 2 ; the Independent Methodist Church, 2 ; the 

 Congregational Methodist Church, 2 ; the Meth- 

 odist Church of Canada, 12; the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church of Canada, 4 ; the Primitive 

 Methodist Church in the United States and 

 Canada, 2 ; the Bible Christian Church, 2 ; and 

 the British Methodist Episcopal Church, 2. 

 The remaining six members are left to be dis- 

 tributed by the Western section of the General 

 Executive Committee. 



A General Executive Committee is constitut- 

 ed, to be composed of one minister and one lay- 

 man from each Methodist body, which shall be 

 divided into two sections, meeting separately : 

 the Eastern section, for English and Continental 

 Methodists and affiliated Conferences ; and the 

 Western section, representing the American 

 Methodists. Bishop Matthew Simpson was con- 

 stituted chairman of the Western section of the 

 committee. 



MEXICO (ESTADOS UNIDOS DK Mfixico). For 

 details concerning area, territorial division, 

 population, etc., reference may be made to 

 the " Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1874, 1875, and 

 1879. In a semi-official publication for the 

 present year, the population is set down as fol- 

 lows: Indians, 3,200,000; whites, 1,600,000; 

 mestizos (''forming the nation proper, being 

 intrusted with the collection of the revenue 

 and the political direction of the country "), 

 5,200,000 ; total, 10,000,000. 



The President of the Republic from May 5, 

 1877, to November 30, 1880, was General Por- 

 firio Diaz; and the Cabinet was composed of 

 the following Ministers: Foreign Affairs, Se- 

 fior M. Ruelas; * Interior (Golernacion), Setter 

 Felipe Berriozabal ; Finance, Sefior Manuel 

 Toro; Justice, and Public Instruction, Sefior 

 IgnacioMariscal; t Public Works (vacant)-, War, 

 General Carlos Pacheco. 



On December 1, 1880, was inaugurated the 

 new constitutional President, General Manuel 

 Gonzalez (elected in July of the same year); 

 and the new Cabinet was made up as follows : 

 Foreign Affairs, Sefior Ignacip Mariscal ; Inte- 

 rior, Sefior Carlos Diez Gutierrez ; Finance, 

 Sefior Francisco Landero y Cos ; War, General 

 GerdnimoTrevifiO; Justice and Public Instruc- 

 tion, Licentiate Ezequiel Montes; Public Works, 

 General Porfirio Diaz. 



The President of the Supreme Court (and 

 consequently, by the terms of the Constitution, 

 Vice-President of the Republic) is Licentiate 

 Ignacio L. Vallarta ; and the magistrates are : 

 Licentiates Pedro Ogazon, Manuel Alas, Mi- 

 guel Blanco, Jose Maria Bautista, Juan de Mata 

 Vazquez, Eleuterio Avila, Jesus M. Vazquez 

 Palacios, Manuel Contreras, Juan Manuel Sal- 

 dafia, Pascual Ortiz, and Jose Fernando Coro- 



* Died September 22, 1880. 



t Minister to the United States during the Administration 

 of President Lerdo de Tejada. 



na ; with Sefior Jos6 Eligio Mufioz, Attorney- 

 General, and the Procurator-General.* 



The Governor of the Federal District (ap- 

 pointed by the President for an unlimited 

 term) is General Carlos Pacheco. The other 

 Governors, with their respective salaries, were 

 as follows : 



Aguas Calientes Seftor Miguel Guinchard. $2,000 00 



Campeachy Seftor Arturo Shielz. 3,000 00 



Chiapas Colonel Miguel 1 trilla. 3,000 00 



Chihuahua Senor Luis Terrazas. ? 



Coahuila Senor E varisto Madero. 1,400 00 



Colima Senor Francisco Santa Cruz. 8,000 00 



Durango. ..Licentiate Francisco Gomez del Palacio. 3,600 00 



Guanajuato Licentiate Manuel Munoz Ledo. ? 



Guerrero Sefior Rafael Cuellar.t 3,000 00 



Hidalgo General Rafael Cravioto. 4,000 00 



Jalisco Senor Fermin G. Eiestra. 6.000 00 



Mexico Senor Marino Zuftiga. 3,90S 25 



Michoacan Senor Octaviano Fernandez.f ? 



Morelos Sefior Carlos Quaglia. ? 



Nuevo Leon Sefior Bibiano L. Villareal. 3,000 00 



Oajaca General Francisco MeijueirgJ 4,000 00 



Puebla General .1 uan N. Mendez. 5.000 00 



Queretaro Sefior Francisco (T. de Cosio. 8,000 00 



San Luis Potosi. . . .Senor Francisco Bustamante.l 4,000 00 



Sinaloa Sefior Mariano Martinez de Castro. ? 



Sonora Sefior Luis E. Torres. 3.600 00 



Tabasco Sefior Jose Francisco de Lanz. 2,700 00 



Taiuaulipas l^eflor Antonio Canales. 3,600 00 



Tlaxcala Sefior Miguel Lira y Ortega.** 3,000 00 



Vera Cruz Sefior Apolinar Castillo. 6.000 00 



Yucatan Sefior Manuel Romero Ancona. 8,000 00 



Zacatecas Sefior Jesus Arechiga. 4,000 00 



Lower California (Ter.) .... Stfior Tiburcio Montiel. ? 



The State Governors are elected for a term 

 of four years. The Governor of the Territory 

 of Lower California is 'appointed by the Fed- 

 eral Government. 



The Mexican Minister to the United States 

 was Sefior M. de Zamacona ; and the Mexican 

 Consul-General in New York is Dr. Juan N. 

 Navarro. The United States Minister to Mex- 

 ico is P. H. Morgan; and the United States 

 Consul- General at the capital is David H. 

 Strother. 



The Archbishop of Mexico is the Rt. Rev. 

 P. A. de Labastida (1863). 



The army is composed approximately as fol- 

 lows: 21 batteries of foot, 14,680 men and 777 

 officers; 10 corps of horse, 4,990 men and 370 

 officers; 5 brigades (of 4 batteries each) of 

 artillery, 1,618 men and 171 officers; coast- 

 guards, 71 men and 22 officers; rural guards 

 (gitardias rurales), 1,692 men and 153 officers; 

 and Invalids, 267 men and 19 officers: total. 

 28,830 rank and file. 



The navy consists of four gunboats. 



The national revenue for the liscal year 1877 

 -'78 was reported at $19,424,539, and the ex- 

 penditure at $19,838,6G9, leaving a deficit of 

 $14,160, unusually small for Mexico. But the 

 unfavorable disproportion has since that year 

 been much greater, as shown in the following 

 schedule : 



* The functions of this office were discharged by Licen- 

 tiate Francisco Gomez del Palacio until November, 18SO, 

 when he was elected Governor of the State of Durango. 



t Until March, 1881. 



i To be succeeded, March 20, 1881, by Licentiate Jos6 Zu- 

 bieta. 



S Until September 15, 1881. 



I Until November 30, 1881. 



1 Until April, 1881. 



* To be succeeded, on January 15, 1881, by Sefior Mariano 

 Grajales. 



