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wounding 40 rioters, while numerous injuries 

 were inflicted with bayonets. Many arrests were 

 made, and the Government justified the severity 

 of the measures taken on the ground that the 

 disturbances were revolutionary. Among the 

 persons arrested were well-known anarchists. 



Hungary. The legislative authority is vested 

 in a Parliament consisting of the House of Mag- 

 nates and the House of Representatives. The 

 House of Magnates is composed of 17 royal 

 archdukes, 55 ecclesiastical dignitaries, the 10 

 bannerets of the kingdom, the Count of Pres- 

 burg, the 2 keepers of the crown, the 2 presidents 

 of the administrative court, the president of the 

 royal table of Budapest, 3 delegates of the Diet 

 of Croatia-Slavonia, the Governor of Fiume, 7 

 princes, 169 counts, and 49 barons sitting as 

 hereditary members, 50 members nominated for 

 life by the King, and 27 members elected by the 

 House of Magnates. The House of Representa- 

 tives consists of 413 members elected for five 

 years or the duration of Parliament by the coun- 

 ties and towns of Hungary and 40 delegates 



population in active military service, which num- 

 bered 114,811, making the* total population of 

 Hungary 19,207,103. 



The number of marriages in 1900 was 109,687; 

 of births, 768,673; of deaths, 531,189; excess of 

 births, 237,484. The number of emigrants in 1900 

 was 54,767, of whom 41,320 passed through Ger- 

 man ports and 13,447 through other European 

 ports. The population of the principal towns on 

 Dec. 31, 1900, was as follows: Budapest, 732,322; 

 Szeged, 102,991; Szabadka, 82,122; Debreczen, 

 75,006; Pozsony, 65,867; Zagreb, 61,002; Hod- 

 mezo-Vasarhely, 60,883 ; Keckskemet, 57,812 ; 

 Arad, 56,260; Temesvar, 53,033; Nagyvarad, 

 50.177. 



Finances. The revenue of the Hungarian 

 Government in 1900 was 1,042,023,000 crowns 

 from ordinary and 155,013,000 crowns from ex- 

 traordinary sources; total, 1,197,036,000 crowns. 

 The revenue for 1901 was estimated at 1,056,582,- 

 297 crowns, and expenditure at 1,056,556,417 

 crowns. The estimated revenue for 1902 was 

 1,086,870,018 crowns, of which 1,035.800,608 



THE NEW HUNGARIAN HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT THE FRONT ON THE DANUBE. 



elected from among its own members by the 

 Diet of Croatia-Slavonia. 



The Council of Ministers constituted on Feb. 

 25, 1899, was composed as follows: President of 

 the Council, Koloman Szell; Minister of Na- 

 tional Defense, Baron Geza Fejervary: Minister 

 of Finance, Dr. Ladislaus de Lucaks ; Minister 

 of Worship and Public Instruction, Dr. Julius 

 de Wlassics; Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Igna- 

 tius Daranyi ; Minister of Croatia-Slavonia, 

 Ervin de Czeh; Minister of Justice, Dr. Alexan- 

 der Ploss; Minister of Commerce, Dr. Alexander 

 Hegediis; Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, 

 Count Emanuel Szechenyi. 



Area and Population. The area of the Hun- 

 garian dominions, inchiding Croatia and Slavo- 

 nia, is 322,310 square miles. The population enu- 

 merated on Dec. 31, 1900, was 19,092,292, an in- 

 crease of 1,742.894 since 1890. Hungary proper, 

 with an area of 108.258 square miles, had 15,656,- 

 904 inhabitants, 153 to the square mile; the town 

 of Fiume, having an area of 8 square miles, had 

 38,139; Croatia and Slavonia, with an area of 

 16,773 square miles, had 2,397.249, or 149 to the 

 square mile. These figures do not include the 



crowns were from ordinary and 51,069,410 crowns 

 from extraordinary sources. Of the ordinary rev- 

 enue 218,000 crowns were from pensions, 2,510,331 

 crowns from state debts, 201,466 crowns from res- 

 titution of loans to various portfolios, 331,392 

 crowns from redistribution of advances from 

 guaranteed railroads, 2,000 crowns from the Min- 

 istry ad latus, 7,915,915 crowns from the Minis- 

 try of the Interior, 698,365,837 crowns from the 

 Ministry of Finance, 279,920,940 crowns from the 

 Ministry of Commerce, 38,579,910 crowns from 

 the Ministry of Agriculture, 5,358,413 crowns 

 from the Ministry of Worship and Instruction, 

 1,797.989 crowns from the Ministry of Justice, 

 and 598,415 crowns from the Ministry of Na- 

 tional Defense. The ordinary expenditures were 

 estimated at 992.204,074 crowns, transitory ex- 

 penditures at 34.360.047 crowns, investments at 

 60.184,962 crowns; total expenditure, 1,086,749,- 

 083 crowns. Of the ordinary expenditure 9,300,- 

 000 crowns were for the civil list, 179,338 crowns 

 for the Cabinet chancery, 3,533,018 crowns for 

 Parliament, 72.640,295 crowns the Hungarian 

 contribution to common expenditure, 41.325 

 ci-owns for pensions charged to common expendi- 



