ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



according to the form and rules which the Executive 

 wiJl ordain. 



ART. IV. These establishments will be under the 

 immediate control of the chief school authorities of 

 the respective provinces. The supervision will be 

 decided upon by the Executive, its principal object 

 being to report on the state and progress of the 

 schools, and to propose the improvements which 

 may be considered necessary in the staff, order, and 

 rules of the establishment. 



ART. V. Let ten burses be established in each 

 school, of the value of twelve silver dollars per 

 month each, which will be distributed by the Execu- 

 tive in each province among poor girls of the rural 

 districts who may wish to devote themselves to 

 teaching, on condition that they employ in their 

 respective districts double the time they have spent 

 occupying a free place in the normal school. This 

 may be done, enjoying the usual salary in a public 

 school, or in a private school without salary. 



In both cases there will be no obligation if a situa- 

 tion be not given to the schoolmistress within the 

 term of a year, counting from the time she leaves 

 the school. 



ART. VI. The Executive is empowered to engage 

 a staff of teachers in a foreign country, in case suit- 

 able teachers cannot be obtained in the republic. 



ART. VII. Let the Executive be authorized to 

 spend to the amount of twenty thousand dollars 

 (hard) in the execution of the present law, submit- 

 ting to the first session of next Congress, in the en- 

 suing year, the budget of expenses. 



ART. VIII. Let it be communicated to the Execu- 

 tive. 



Given in the hall of sessions of the Argentine Con- 

 gress, in Buenos Ayres, the llth of October, 1875. 

 MARIANO ACOSTA. 



B. ZOBRILLA. 



CARLOS M. SARAVIA, Secretary of the Senate. 

 MIGUEL SORONDO, Sec. of the Chamber of Deputies. 

 In virtue of the above : 



Let the law be fulfilled, communicated, published, 

 and filed in the national registry. 



"AVELLANEDA. 

 O. LKGUIZAMON. 



The trade returns for 1874 show a slight 

 falling off in the exports, and an enormous de- 

 crease in the imports, as will appear from the 

 subjoined comparative tables of those two 

 branches for 1873 and 1874: 



EXPORTS. 



IMPORTS. 



By comparing the general totals for 1873 and 

 1874, in this last table, a decline of nearly 

 $21,000,000 for the latter year is at once dis- 

 covered, while in the export table the decline 

 is little over $2,500,000. The decrease in the 

 revenue for 1874 is here explained ; but, as 

 that decrease arises from a decline in the im- 

 ports, it argues no diminution of the productive 

 power of the republic. 



The proportion of the exports through the 

 various custom-houses of the republic is set 

 forth in the following table, embracing the 

 years 1873 and 1874: 



EXPORTS. 



Foremost among the articles of export stands 

 wool, of which 80,206,652 kilogrammes, or 

 rather more than 200,000,000 Ibs., were sent 

 out of the country in 1874, of the value of 

 $17,967,054. Hides come second in impor- 

 tance, having been exported in the following 

 quantities: ox and horse hides, 2,207,731; do. 

 do., salted, 535,350; dried calf-skins, 332,158; 

 salted do., 31,666; dried horse-hides, 142,714; 

 salted do., 112,599; nonatos calf-skins, 170,- 



