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tares, must have completed thirty years of age, 

 have been citizens for at least six years, and 

 have an income of not less than $500 per annum. 

 One third of the Senate is renewed every three 

 years. The deputies, eighty-six in number, 

 elected for four years, must be at least twenty- 

 five years of age, and have been citizens for 

 not less than four years. Both senators and 

 deputies are paid a yearly salary of $3,500 each. 

 Both houses assemble annually from May 1st 

 to September 30th. A Vice-President, elected 

 in the same manner and at the same time as 

 the President, fills the office of chairman of the 

 Senate, but has otherwise no political power. 



The President of the Republic is Lieut.-Gen. 

 Don Julio A. Roca (inaugurated Oct. 12. 1880), 

 and the Vice-President, Don Francisco Madero. 



The Cabinet was composed of the following 

 ministers : Interior, Don Bernardo de Irigoyar ; 

 Foreign Affairs, Don Francisco Ortiz ; Finance, 

 Don Victorino de la Plaza; Justice, Public 

 Worship, and Public Instruction, Don Eduardo 

 Wilde; War and the Navy, Gen. Benjamin 

 Victorica. 



The Governors of the several provinces, etc., 

 were: 



Buenos Ayres Dr. D. Rocha. 



Cataraarca Don J. Acuna. 



C6rdoba Don G. Gavier. 



Corrientes Don A. Soto. 



Entre-Eios Col. J. Antelo. 



Jujuy Don E. Tello. 



La fiioja Don B. Jaramillo. 



Mendoza Don J. E. Segura. 



Salta Don M. 8. Ortiz. 



Ban Juan Don A. Gil. 



Ban Luis Don Z. ( 'oncha. 



Santa Fe Don M. Zavalla. 



Santiago de Estero Don L. G. Pinto. 



Tncuman Don B. Paz. 



Gran Chaco Territory Col. F. Bosch. 



Patagonia Col. L. Winter. 



Missiones Col. K. Boca. 



The Argentine Envoy Extraordinary and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States 

 is Dr. Don Luis L. Dominguez (accredited in 

 1882); and the Argentine Consul- General at 

 New York is Don Carlos Carranza. 



The United States Minister Resident in the 

 Argentine Republic is Gen. Thomas O. Osborn ; 

 and the United States Consul at Buenos Ayres 

 is E. L. Baker. 



Army. The Argentine army in May, 1881, 

 exclusive of the National Guard, was 6,579 

 strong, comprising 3,209 foot, 2,320 horse, 

 and 1,050 artillery. If to this be added the 

 Indian and recruit pickets, and the students 

 at the military schools, aggregating 3,008, the 

 total strength will stand at 9,587. In June, 

 1883, there were 4 lieutenant-generals, 14 gen- 

 erals of divisions, 50 colonels, 127 lieutenant- 

 colonels, 142 majors, and 742 officers of other 

 grades. At that time the National Guard was 

 315,850 strong. In 1882 the military academy 

 had 14 instructors and 143 students; and the 

 military school (for non-commissioned officers) 

 6 instructors and 68 students. 



NETJ. The navy, in June, 1883, was com- 

 posed of 39 vessels, namely : 3 steam-ironclads, 

 6 gunboats, 7 torpedoes, 2 steam-transports, 3 



cruisers, 6 other steam- vessels, and 12 sail-of- 

 the-line, with an aggregate tonnage of 12,630, 

 and an armament of 55 guns, and manned with 

 320 officers, 1,505 seamen, 1,737 marines (in- 

 cluding officers), and a torpedo division 137 

 strong. In the foregoing enumeration is not 

 included the flotilla of the Rio Negro, com- 

 prising 3 steamers and 3 steam-launches. 



In 1882 the naval school consisted of 17 in- 

 structors and 69 students; another school (for 

 seamen) had 9 instructors and 43 students. 



The navy, like the army, is recruited by vol- 

 untary enlistment for a stated period. 



Education. According to the school census 

 of 1883-'84, there were within the republic 

 2,023 primary schools, national, provincial, mu- 

 nicipal, and private, with 3,761 teachers and 

 assistants, and 146,325 pupils, including both 

 sexes, the total number of children between 

 the ages of five and fourteen years being 503,- 

 591. These figures show a considerable im- 

 provement as compared with those for 1881, 

 in which year the aggregate attendance was 

 but 136,928, while the number of children fit 

 to attend school was estimated at 500,000. 

 The annual expenditure by the Federal Govern- 

 ment for those schools, as given in the census, 

 was $2,444,187.84. Higher branches of instruc- 

 tion were pursued in the two Universities of 

 Buenos Ayres and C6rdoba, special schools of 

 law, medicine, theology, and military and naval 

 schools, fourteen national colleges (with their 

 nine annexes), and eighteen normal schools. 



Finance. In the budget for 1884 the national 

 revenue and expenditure were estimated at 

 $33,770,333 and $34,053,484 respectively, with 

 a resulting deficit of $283,151. "At the end 

 of the present year (1883), the 6 per cent, con- 

 solidated debt, with a small portion at 8 and 9 

 per cent., will have been reduced to $75,418,- 

 201.31."* 



Commerce. The imports for the year 1882 

 were of the value of $76,328,283 (including the 

 trade in transitu, amounting to $17,057,917), 

 folly one third having been 'for British, and 

 but one twelfth for American products. 



The value of the exports for the same year 

 was $75,498,822 (including $17,057,917 in 

 transitu), of which about $16,000,000 was to 

 France, $14,000,000 to Belgium, $7,400,000 

 to Great Britain, and but $2,861,209 to the 

 United States. 



The sources, destinations, and values of the 

 imports and exports through Buenos Ayres for 

 the nine months, January to September, 1884, 

 were as follow : 



IMPORTS. 



