208 CONGRESS. (APPROPRIATIONS.) 



COSTA RICA. 



Hammond, Ind.; Chattahoochee river, Columbia, 

 Oa.; Columbia river, Vancouver, Wash.; Cum- 

 berland river, Nashville, Tenn.; Current river, 

 Randolph County, Arkansas; Devils lake, North 

 Dakota; Duluth Canal, Minnesota; East Saint 

 Andrews Bay v Farmdale, Fla. ; Emory river, Har- 

 riniiin, Tenn.; Manatee river. Florida; Mississippi 

 river, Burlington, Iowa; Champlin and Anoka, 

 Minn., and Little Falls, Minn.; Missouri river, 

 Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., Kansas 

 City, Mo., Parkville, Mo., Pierre, S. Dak., Platts- 

 mouth, Neb., St. Joseph, Mo. ; Monongahela river, 

 Clairton Station, Pa., Morgantown, W. Va.; 

 Neuse river, Kinston, N. C.; Ouachita river, 

 Arkansas; Ohio river, Allegheny, Pa.; Pearl river, 

 .Mi->issippi; Red river, Shreveport, La.; Savannah 

 river, Savarmah, Ga.; Tennessee river, Marion 

 County, Tenn.; Waccamaw river, Conway, S. C.; 

 White river, Newport, Ark. 



Appropriations. The following statement of 

 the appropriations of the Fifty-seventh Congress 

 at its first session, and covering the fiscal year of 

 1902-'03, was prepared by the clerks of the Com- 

 mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 

 House of Representatives: 



Agriculture.... $5,208,960.00 



A?my 91,530,136.41 



Diplomatic and consular 1,957,925.69 



District of Columbia 8,547,526.97 



Fortification 7,298,955.00 



Indian. 9,143,902.58 



Legislative, etc 25,398,381.50 



Military Academy 2,627,324.42 



Navy..:. 78,678,963.13 



Pension... 139,842.230.00 



Post-office 138,416,598.75 



River and harbor 26,726,442.00 



Sundry civil 60,125,359.13 



Total $395,502,705.58 



Deficiencies 28.039.911.42 



Total . . $623,542,617.00 



Miscellaneous 2,600,000.00 



Total regular annual appropriations $626,142,617.00 



Isthmian canal 50,130,000.00 



Permanent annual appropriations 123,921 ,220.00 



Grand total, regular and permanent an- 

 nual appropriations $800, 193,837.00 



Amount of estimated revenues for fiscal 



year 1903 $580,000,000.00 



Amount of estimated postal revenues for 



fiscal year 1903 132,030,630.00 



Total estimated revenues for fiscal year 



1903 $712,020,630.00 



It is necessary to consider this statement in 

 connection with the explanatory notes appended 

 by those who prepared it. As to the District of 

 Columbia appropriation it is said that one-half 

 the amount is payable by the United States 

 except amounts in the water department, which 

 are payable out of the water rates. The post- 

 office appropriation includes all expenses of the 

 postal service payable from postal revenues and 

 from the Treasury. In addition to the sum 

 given as the river and harbor appropriation 

 $5,768,757 is appropriated in the sundry civil act 

 to carry out contracts already authorized for 

 1903. As to the grand total, this comment is 

 made: "In addition to this amount contracts 

 are authorized to be entered into, subject to 

 future appropriations by Congress, as follows: 

 By the District of Columbia act, $2.118,405; by 

 the Military Academy act, $3,500,000; by the 

 naval act, $18,306,000; by the river and harbor 

 act, $38,336,160; by the sundry civil act, $61.6,- 

 000; by the urgent deficiency act, $550,000; by 

 miscellaneous acts, including the public build- 

 ings act, $15,946,650; by the isthmian canal act, 

 f 180.000.000s in all, $259,373,215." 



CONNECTICUT. (See under UNITED STATES.) 



COSTA RICA, a republic in Central America. 

 The Congress is a single Chamber of 21 repre- 

 sentatives, elected for four years by an electoral 

 college, the members of which are elected by the 

 votes of all self-supporting adult male citizens. 

 The President is also elected for four years, and 

 may be his own successor. Rafael Iglesias was 

 reelected President for the term which began 

 on May 8, 1898. Demetrio Iglesias Llorente and 

 Federigo Tinoco were the Vice-Presidents. The 

 Cabinet was composed in the beginning of 1902 

 as follows: Minister of the Interior, Police, and 

 Public Works and acting Minister of Foreign Ai- 

 fairs, W T orship, Public instruction, Benevolence, 

 and Justice, Ricardo Pacheco; acting Minister of 

 Finance, E. Truque; acting Minister of War and 

 Marine, Demetrio Iglesias. 



Area and Population. The area is estimated 

 at 23,000 square miles, and the population on 

 Feb. 18, 1892, was 243,205, comprising 122,480 

 males and 120,725 females. On Dec. 31, 1899, the 

 population was officially estimated at 309,683. 

 The number of births registered in 1900 was 

 10,695; deaths, 6,275. San Jose, the capital, has 

 about 25,000 inhabitants. 



Finances. The revenue in 1901 was 8,700,833 

 colones, and expenditure 9,319,192 colones. The 

 gold colon was adopted as the monetary unit by 

 the act of Oct. 26, 1896, which established a gold 

 standard at the ratio of 1 to 26f , the paper peso 

 being made exchangeable for the colon, which 

 weighs 0.778 gram, 900 fine. The new currency 

 was put into circulation on July 16, 1900, when 

 5,000,000 colones had been coined. There were 

 3,000,000 pesos of paper currency in circulation. 

 About 1,000,000 pesos of fractional silver cur- 

 rency were issued, and this is legal tender up to 

 10 pesos. Foreign gold coins are legal tender, 

 but foreign silver coins are not. 



The foreign debt, which in view of the deprecia- 

 tion of silver was scaled down in 1888 and again 

 in 1897 by arrangement with the creditors, 

 amounted on June 30, 1901, to 2,080,000 ster- 

 ling, the amount in 1887 having been 2,691,300, 

 with 2,119,512 interest in arrear. The interest 

 on 1,475,000 of the capital was reduced in 1897 

 to 2J per cent, and on 525,000 to 3 per cent. 

 The unpaid coupons from Jan. 1, 1895, when the 

 Government defaulted, till April, 1897, when the 

 new arrangement went into effect, are paid by 

 instalments of 5,000 a year for twenty years, 

 31,562 having been paid at the start. Amor- 

 tization of the debt will begin in 1917 by the 

 annual payment of 10,000. The floating debt 

 in 1900 amounted to 6,067,898 pesos, and the total 

 internal debt to 6,916,072 pesos. 



Commerce and Production. Costa Rican 

 coffee brings a high price, and lands adapted for 

 its culture when situated near a railroad are 

 valuable. The banana plantations on the coast 

 are remunerative, and the cultivation of cacao 

 is a growing industry. There are also planta- 

 tions of rubber-trees. The people are industrious 

 and frugal, but little else is grown besides these 

 products and corn, rice, yams, and potatoes for 

 food. There are herds of cattle and horses on the 

 highlands valued at 12,695,065 pesos in 1S97. 

 Gold is mined by American companies, which ex- 

 ported $160.000 worth in 1900. The total value 

 of imports in 1900 was $6,084,895, and of exports 

 $6,321.192. Of the imports, 46.2 per cent, came 

 from the United States, 27.3 per cent, from Great 

 Britain, 13.6 per cent, from Germany, and 12.9 per 

 cent, from other countries. The exports of coffee 

 were valued at $3,800,190; bananas, $1,354,390; 

 gold and silver, $500,000; hides and skins, $103,- 

 330; rubber, $98,070. 



