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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



the various articles of this large collection is a 

 twisted snaffle-bit of bronze. There are four 

 lion's-heads of powerful design and fine work- 

 manship, which probably formed part of a 

 fountain. 



General di Oesnola has retired from the pur- 

 suit which he has followed so energetically and 

 with such distinguished success. The results of 

 the last three years' investigations have been 

 much more fruitful than those of his first seven 

 years. The field cannot be supposed to be yet 

 entirely exhausted. His later investigations 

 have been prosecuted with the proceeds of the 

 sale of his first great find. Many of the sur- 

 face diggings were purely experimental, on 

 spots where there were no signs of human 

 art above-ground. The city of New York has 

 secured this most valuable collection. The ob- 

 jects represent a wide range of time, from the 

 earliest beginnings of art to a period of late 

 antiquity. The greater part of them may prob- 

 ably be referred to the transition period in 

 which took place the birth of the true Greek 

 art, the first departure from the conventional 

 types of the Egyptians and Assyrians. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC (REPUBLICA AR- 

 GENTINA), an independent state of South Amer- 

 ica, lying between latitude 22 and 41 south, 

 and longitude 63 and 71 17' west. It is 

 bounded north by Bolivia ; east by Paraguay, 

 Brazil, Uruguay, and the Atlantic Ocean ; south 

 by Patagonia, the dividing line with which is 

 the Rio Negro ; and west by Chili, from which 

 country it is separated by the Andes. 



The territory of the republic is divided into 

 fourteen provinces, which, with their capitals, 

 and their estimated population for 1875, are 

 as follows : 



The population of the capital, Buenos Ayres, 

 set down in the official census of 1869 at 177,- 

 787, is calculated by Dr. G. Rawson to have 

 been not less than 230,000 in 1875. 



The question of boundaries with Chili, in 

 regard to the disputed territory of Patagonia, 

 still remains unsettled. Chili is reported as 

 likely to propose a compromise, based upon 

 the assigning to that republic the whole of 

 Tierra del Fuego, and that portion of the Pata- 

 gonian territory comprised between either 

 ocean and a line drawn from east to west thir- 



ty leagues north of Puntarenas, and the whole 

 of the remainder to the Argentine Republic. 



(For detailed statistics concerning area, pop- 

 ulation, etc., see previous volumes of the AN- 

 NUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, and especially that for the 

 year 1872.) 



The President of the Republic is Dr. Don Ni- 

 colas Avellaneda (succeeded Sefior Sarmiento 

 in 1874); the Vice-President, Dr. Don Ma- 

 riano Acosta (elected in the same year) ; Min- 

 ister of the Interior, Dr. Don Simon de Iriondo ; 

 of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Don Bernardo de Irig6- 

 yen ; of Finance, Sefior Victorino de la Plaza ; 

 of Justice, Public Worship, and Public Instruc- 

 tion, Sefior Don O. Leguizamon; of War and 

 Marine, Sefior Don Adolf o Alsina. Argentine 

 minister to the United States, Sefior Don Ma- 

 nuel R. Garcia; secretary of legation, Sefior 

 Don G. Videla Dorna. 



The following is the list of the governors 

 of the fourteen provinces : 



Buenos Ayres Carlos Casares (May, 1875). 



Minister of the Interior. .Dr. A. del Valle. 



Minister of Finance Kufino Varela. 



Catamarca M. Molina. 



Cordoba Dr. E. Rodriguez. 



Corrientes Dr. J. L. Madariaga. 



Entre-Eios Dr. R. Febre. 



Jujuy C. Aparicio. 



La Kioja R. Ocainpo. 



Mendoza F. Ci vit. 



Salta M. F. Araoz. 



San Juan R. Doncel. 



San Luis R. Cort6s. 



Santa Fe S. Bayo. 



Santiago G. Santillan. 



Tucuman T. Padilla. 



The provincial governors are elected by the 

 people, and their period of office is three years. 



The amount and various branches of the 

 national revenue and expenditure for 1875 are 

 expressed in the subjoined tables : 



REVENUE. 



Import duties $12,893,532 63 



Export duties 2,616,610 29 



Public warehouse fees 527,054 04 



Stamped paper 882,529 19 



Post-Office 214,307 70 



Telegraphs 79.553 40 



Lighthouses 85,878 98 



Dividend of Central Argentine Railway Co.. . 133,280 00 



Sundries 828,100 56 



Total $17,206,746 64 



EXPENDITURE. 



Ministry of the Interior $7,240,207 18 



Ministry of Foreign Relations 175,218 98 



Ministry of Finance , 9,413.524 82 



Ministry of Justice, etc 1,560,493 76 



Ministry of War and Marine 10,181,116 43 



Total $28,570,566 20 



The Minister of Finance, in his report to 

 Congress, in August, 1876, states: 



The Government, under tlie most extreme pressure 

 and surrounded by difficulties that almost threatened 

 its existence, was compelled to employ funds of the 

 public-works loan for purposes alien to those author- 

 ized, but I must also state that the Government has 

 met, and will continue punctually to meet, the ser- 

 vice of said loan with the ordinary national revenue, 

 and the national creditors need have no alarm ; not- 

 withstanding the crisis, the Government will meet 

 all its obligations. I recommend Congress to order 

 all the surplus and unplaced public-works bonde to 



