BOGY, LEWIS V. 



BOLIVIA. 



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negotiations with the Khan of Kelat, in order 

 to watch the wild mountain tribes during the 

 winter ; while the strengthening of the Mitri 

 post had for its object the cutting off of sup- 

 plies from the marauding tribes north of 

 Kelat. 



Among the works of the year containing in- 

 formation on Beloochistan is A. W. Hughes's 

 " The Country of Beloochistan : its Geography, 

 Topography, Ethnology, and History," Lon- 

 don, 1877. 



BOGY, LEWIS V., United States Senator, 

 died in St. Louis, September 20, 1877. He 

 was born in St. Genevieve, Mo., in 1813, grad- 

 uated at the Lexington (Ky.) Law School in 

 1835, and began practice in St. Louis. He was 

 several times elected to the State Legislature, 

 and in 1867-'68 was Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs. He was interested in the development 

 of the mineral resources of the State, and was 

 one of the original projectors of the St. Louis 

 and Iron Mountain Railroad, of which he was 

 president for two years. In 1873 he was elect- 

 ed to the United States Senate. In politics he 

 was a Democrat. 



BOLIVIA (REPUBLIOA DE BOLIVIA), an in- 

 dependent state of South America, situated 

 between latitude 10 to 24 south, and longi- 

 tude 57 25' to 70 30' west. It is bounded on 

 the north and northeast by Brazil ; on the 

 south by the Argentine Republic and Chili ; 

 and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and 

 Peru. 



No census or survey having taken place 

 since 1872, we have to refer to the ANNUAL 

 CYCLOPAEDIA for that year for particulars con- 

 cerning the territorial division, area, and 

 population of the Republic. 



The President of Bolivia is General Hilarion 

 Daza, who was installed on May 4, 1876. The 

 ministers of the various departments were as 



follows : Interior and Foreign Affairs, * ; 



Finance and Public Works, Sefior Don Agus- 

 tin Aspiaru ; Justice and Public Worship, Dr. 

 J. M. Del Carpio; War, General Carlos De 

 Villegas. 



The Bolivian Consul-General in New York 

 is Sefior J. Pol ; and the Consul in San Fran- 

 cisco, Senor F. Herrera. 



The American Minister of the United States 

 in Bolivia is the Hon. R. M. Reynolds, residing 

 at La Paz. 



The Metropolitan Archbishop is Dr. P. J. 

 Puch y Solona (elevated in 1861), and there 

 are the following bishops : La Paz, Dr. Juan 

 de Dios Borgue (1874) ; Cochabamba, F. M. 

 del Grajwdo (1872) ; and Santa Cruz de la 

 Sierra, F. X. Rodriguez (1870). 



The standing Army of Bolivia comprises 8 

 general, 359 superior, and 654 subaltern officers, 

 with, at most, 2,000 rank and file. The an- 

 nual cost of the Army is $2,000,000, approxi- 

 mately. 



* The minister of this department was Dr. J. Oblltas, until 

 Ansrust, 1877, when, consequent upon a quairel with the 

 President, he was compelled to resign. 



No precise statement of the Bolivian finances 

 can be given for the past year, for want of 

 official returns. Indeed, no report of this 

 kind has been published for several years past. 



According to the estimated budget for the 

 fiscal year 1873-'74, the revenue was set down 

 at $2,929,574, and the expenditure at $4,505,- 

 504, which would constitute a deficit of up- 

 ward of a million and a half. 



AY.MAi: A-. AND AN ATMARA TOMB. 



In a semi-official report, the national debt 

 was given at 3,400,000 in Juno, 1875, in- 

 cluding Colonel Church's loan of 1,700,000, 

 negotiated in London, in 1872, at 68 and 6 per 

 cent, interest. 



The best information on this subject will be 

 found in the following extract from the fourth 

 report of the Corporation Bondholders for 

 1876: 



During the past year the council and committee 

 have directed their attention chiefly to negotiations 

 having for their object- the distribution of the Trust, 

 Fund, which formed the subject of the long-pending 

 chancery proceedings, in the event of the suit in- 

 stituted hy the Republic resulting in the liberation 

 of the fund, which now amounts to about 700,000. 

 A preliminary arrangement having been made with 

 Senor Quijarro, who, in January, 1876, arrived in 

 England as the accredited Minister of Bolivia, a 

 public meeting of bondholders was held on May 24, 

 1876, when tlie following resolution was passed: 



" That the fourth report of the Committee of 

 Bolivian Bondholders be received and adopted ; and 

 that this general meeting of Bolivian bondholders 

 request the committee to support the Government of 

 Bolivia in obtaining the funds in court, on condition 

 that the said funds be applied (subject to such de- 

 duction as the committee may deem expedient) for 

 division among the bondholders, according to the 

 plan approved in the original letter of Senor Qui- 

 jarro of the 28th of March last, and that the com- 

 mittee be requested to continue their efforts to effect 

 a settlement on this basis." 



A more definite arrangement was subsequently 

 made with Senor Quijarro, which provided for the 

 payment out of the Trust Fund, when liberated, of 



