384 



GUATEMALA. 



Total 74,778,000 



Total 100,440,000 



The American trade with Greece is shown 

 in these figures : 



Of the amount imported in the fiscal year 

 1884, $1,019,724 represented currants. 



Merchant Marine. According to the register 

 of the u Bureau Veritas " for 1883-'34 the com- 

 mercial navy under the Greek flag consisted of 

 47 sea-going steamers, with an aggregate ton- 

 nage of 25,555, and 1,865 sailing-vessels, meas- 

 uring together 362,891 tons. If smaller steam- 

 ers and sailing-craft be added, there are, alto- 

 gether, 60 steamers, measuring, in all, 30,782 

 tons, besides 1,359 small coasting sloops, etc., 

 to be added to the sea-going sailing-vessels. 



There entered Greek ports in 1883, 6,872 

 sea-going vessels, of a joint tonnage of 2,061,- 

 682, and there departed 4,874 vessels, measur- 

 ing together 1,991,865 tons. The maritime 

 movement is most active at the Piraeus, the 

 port of Athens, where all the steamers bound 

 for the Levant call ; next in importance is Syra, 

 where, in 1883, 50,000,000 francs of merchan- 

 dise were landed. From the Island of Corfu 

 alone 30,000,000 francs worth of currants leave 

 every year; and Zante, besides currants, ex- 

 ports silk and cotton. 



GREELY EXPEDITION. See ARCTIC EXPLO- 

 RATION. 



GUATEMALA, the most populous of the five 

 Central American republics; population in 

 1884, 1,276,961. The President is Gen. Ru- 

 fino Barrios, elected May 9, 1873, since which 

 time the Constitutional Assembly has, by de- 

 cree dated Oct. 23, 1876, prolonged his term of 

 office for four years. Before the expiration of 

 this term, March 15, 1880, he was re-elected 

 for another term of six years. The Cabinet is 

 composed of the following ministers : Foreign 

 Affairs, Dr. F. Cruz ; Interior, 0. Diaz Merida ; 

 War, Gen. J. M. Barrundia; Public Instruc- 

 tion, Licenciado R. Murga; Agriculture and 

 Public Credit, Sefior D. Sanchez; Public 

 Works, Licenciado F. Laiifiesta. 



The Minister to the United States is Sefior 

 L. A. B&tres; the Consul - General at New 

 York, Sefior J. Baiz; and the Consul at San 

 Francisco, Seflor J. M. Tinoco. 



The United States Minister to the Central 

 American republics (resident in Guatemala) is 

 Hon. H. 0. Hall; the United States Consul at 

 Guatemala City, Dr. F. H. Titus. 



Public Debt. In 1884 the Government of 

 Guatemala made an arrangement with its Eu- 

 ropean bondholders, by the terms of which 

 payment of interest is resumed on the 5 and 6 

 per cent, bonds of 1856 and 1869. By the pro- 

 visions of this agreement, two new issues are 

 to be made in exchange for the outstanding 

 ones and coupons. One issue (800,000) is to 

 cancel the capital of the old bonds, and another 

 (250,000) the over-due coupons, pound for 

 pound. The capital bonds are to bear interest 

 at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, payable 

 half-yearly ; and of these bonds, 8,000 are to 

 be paid off annually at par, to be drawn for. 

 The coupon bonds bear 6 per cent, interest, but 

 will accumulate with interest, and are only to 

 be canceled pro rata, together with the drawn 

 capital bonds. In order to secure the prompt 

 payment of new coupons in the future, the Gov- 

 ernment of the republic pledges 27 per cent, 

 of its revenue to be derived from customs, to 

 be handed over to the creditors in the shape 

 of drafts on the custom-house. The average 

 amount of duties collected annually is the equiv- 

 alent of 60,000. 



On Jan. 1, 1884, the foreign debt above al- 

 luded to was inscribed on the books of the 

 state, principal and interest, with the amount 

 of $3,945,461, while the internal or floating in- 

 debtedness stood $4,257,631. The aggregate 

 national indebtedness was $8,203,092. 



Finances. The amounts and the various 

 branches of the national revenue and expendi- 

 tures for the fiscal year 1883 were as shown in 

 the table below : 



REVENUE. 



Balance from former years $104,827 



Direct taxes 176,908 



Indirect income 1,916,987 



Monopolies 1,549 178 



Special state revenues 328,212 



Income from sundry and extraordinary sources . . . 88,577 



Loans and deposits 2,569,413 



Total $6,728,607 



EXPENDITURE. 



Administrative outlays $2,330,648 



Higher educational branches 27,168 



Mails and telegraphs ... 115,312 



Police at the capital 150,882 



Justice 8,854 



Pensions and state aid 41.958 



Charitable institutions 112,084 



Municipalities 18,101 



Purchase of tobacco 10,267 



Purchase of saltpeter 2,640 



Sundry and extraordinary outlays 214.654 



Floating debt . 8,536,096 



Total $6,618,607 



President's Message. In his speech at the open- 

 ing of Congress, President Barrios said : 



It is to be regretted that the new effort to establish 

 a union between the five Central American republics 

 has failed; but my Government, nevertheless, con- 

 tinues as willing as ever to use every effort within its 

 power, by the institutions it develops, by its laws, and 

 by its course of conduct, to furnish unequivocal proofs 



