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GERMANY. 



President of the Imperial Chancery (Reichs- tion, the number of representatives of every 



kanzler-Amt), Delbriick, Minister of State. German state in the Federal Council, and the 



The following table exhibits all the states number of deputies who represent each state 



of the German Empire, the area, the popula- in the Reichstag : 



In the following table will be found a full 

 exhibit of the governments of the particular 

 states, including the names and titles of all the 



sovereign princes, their years of birth and ac- 

 cession to the throne, and the name of the 

 heir-apparent : 



The ducal line of Brunswick is likely to be- 

 come extinct by the death of the reigning duke, 

 who is now (1876) in his seventieth year and 

 not married. The succession is disputed by the 

 ex-King of Hanover and the Emperor of Ger- 

 many. It is also interesting to notice that in 

 only twelve of the twenty-two sovereign houses 



which belong to the German Empire the heir- 

 apparent is the son of the reigning sovereign. 



The legislative functions of the empire are 

 vested in the Bundestag, or Federal Council, 

 and the Reichstag, or Diet of the empire. The 

 Bundesrath represents the individual states of 

 Germany, and the Emperor must have its con- 



