BOLIVIA. 



BRADBURY, WILLIAM B. 75 



The area is now (Belim Geogr. 

 vol. II., Gotha, 1868) estimated at 535,769 

 square miles. The population of the nine 

 provinces, into which the republic was divided 

 in 1858, was as follows: 



LaPaz 475,322 



Cochabamba... 349,891 



Potosi 281,229 



Chuquisaca 223,668 



Oruro 110,931 



Santa Cruz .... 153,164 

 Tarija 88,900 



Veni...., 



Atacama 



Total 

 Indians . 



Total . 



55,973 

 5,273 



1,744,351 

 24,500 



1,768,851 



The capital, La Paz, has 76,372 inhabitants. 



The army formerly consisted of 2,000 men, 

 but was, in 1866, in consequence of the war 

 with Spain, raised to 3,000 men, 500 of whom 

 were cavalry. In 1867 the revenue was 2,471,- 

 000 piasters, and the expenditures 2,435,000 

 piasters. The revenue in 1865 was estimated 

 at about 3,000,000 piasters, nearly one million 

 and a half being a tribute from the Indians, 

 450,000 import duties, 315,000 export duties, 

 and the remainder the proceeds of mines, 

 stamp duties, etc. There is neither a direct 

 tax nor a public debt, nor paper money. The 

 imports are valued at about 5,570,000 piasters. 



A new Congress was elected in 1868, the 

 number of deputies elected by the several prov- 

 inces being as follows : Chuquisaca, 8 ; La Paz, 

 8 ; Cochabamba, 6 ; Potosi, 8 ; Oruro, 4 ; San- 

 ta Cruz, 4; Tarija, 4; Cobija, 2; Veni, 2; 

 Tarate, 6 ; Mejillones, 2. The new Congress 

 met on August 6th, and confirmed all the acts 

 of President Melgarejo, inclusive of the treaty 

 of Bolivia. As some deputies (especially Se- 

 fior Mufioz Cabrera) made, however, a violent 

 opposition to the treaty, amidst the applause, 

 of the galleries, the Congress was dissolved at 

 the point of the bayonet. 



In September, President Melgarejo issued a 

 decree extending the rights of citizenship to 

 Americans. The articles of the decree are : 



1. No American shall be considered a foreigner in 

 Bolivia. , 



2. Every American, of whatever nationality lie be, 

 can obtain Bolivian citizenship by alone declaring in 

 writing, in the presence of any of the prefects, his 

 wish to settle in the republic. His name being in- 

 scribed in the civic register, the same prefect win ex- 

 tend Mm his citizenship papers. 



3. Americans may; in like manner freely exercise 

 in _the republic their liberal, scientific, literary or 

 artistic professions, in all cases, on presenting their 

 respective diplomas, credentials, or titles extended 

 to them by competent and legalized authority, in 

 proper form for its examination and acceptation by 

 the national government. 



4. The present decree shall be considered as con- 

 firming that of the 18th March, 1866. 



The Minister of Foreign Affairs was directed 

 to communicate both decrees to the govern- 

 ments of the American nations, soliciting at 

 the same time the adoption of like measures to 

 extend to the whole continent the privileges 

 accorded. 



By a decree of August 27th, a contract was 

 made with Colonel George E. Church, engi- 

 neer of New York, for the establishment of a 

 "National Bolivian Navigation Company," 



which is to navigate by steamers nnd with 

 other vessels the Bolivian rivers which are 

 tributary to the Madeira, the principal affluent 

 of the Amazon. The Government conceded 

 in favor of the company the following privi- 

 leges and rights : 



1. In the populated ports it gives in property to 

 the company one square mile of State lands, and at 

 the points where new ports should be founded to fa- 

 cilitate commerce, according to the judgment of the 

 company, a square of the same lands upon the river 

 margins, which shall have two leagues iront and two 

 of depth, the company having the right to make that 

 use of them which may be most to its interests. 



2. The Government of Bolivia will pay to the com- 

 pany $10,000 gold, the day upon which the first 

 steamer moves upon the waters of the Mamore, as a 

 premium offered by the Government in supreme de- 

 cree of 1853. 



3. The same Government concedes to the company 

 the right to cut wood for burning, exportation, and 

 other uses, in the forests which have no private 

 owner, and that of collecting 8,000 head of horned 

 cattle from the herds owned by the State in the de- 

 partment of the Beni it being the obligation to make 

 this collection in the method most to the advantage 

 of the Government and the company. 



4. The Government guarantees to the company the 

 free exportation of the products of the country with- 

 out paying duties or imposts of any class. The im- 

 portation of merchandise and foreign fffects will only 



Eay half of the tariff of duties collected upon those 

 nported by Cobija. One and the other privileges 

 will continue for 'ten years, counting from the day 

 upon which the navigation of the Madeira may be free 

 from impediment by the clearing of the rapids, it be- 

 ing impossible to recover any class of imposts up to 

 this time. This term of ten years expired, the Gov- 

 ernment can only levy upon the merchandise im- 

 ported by the Madeira a duty inferior by one-third 

 part to that recovered by Cobija^ until the twenty-five 

 years mentioned in the following article have ex- 

 pired. 



BRADBURY, WILLIAM B., a musical teacher 

 and composer, and, since 1854, one of the most 

 successful piano manufacturers in the United 

 States, born in York, Maine, in 1816; died in 

 Montclair, N". J., January 7, 1868. Both his 

 parents were well known as excellent singers, 

 and from them he inherited that musical taste, 

 the development of which has rendered his 

 name a household word. Before he was four- 

 teen, he had mastered every instrument that 

 came in his way ; but until 1830 he had never 

 seen an organ or a piano. In that year he 

 moved to Boston, where he formed the ac- 

 quaintance of Dr. Lowell Mason and his coad- 

 jutor, -George J. Webb, who at that time stood 

 at the head of the musical celebrities of New 

 England. In 1 834 he was known as a practical 

 organist, and six years later began teaching in 

 New York under the most flattering auspices. 

 His free singing-schools in this city and Brook- 

 lyn became very popular, and, on his concert 

 nights, the old Tabernacle, between Franklin 

 and Leonard Streets, on Broadway, was filled 

 to overflowing. On these occasions, his per- 

 formers, all children, numbered from five hun- 

 dred to one thousand. These concerts gave 

 Mr. Bradbury great notoriety, and secured him 

 hosts of friends. He had many enemies, too, 

 among members of his profession, and they 



