FRANCE. 



301 



The number of still-born children from 1870 

 to 1874 was as follows : 



18TO 45,169 



1871 40,315 



1872 48,967 



1878 44 487 



1774 44,618 



Of the 950,975 children born in 1875, about 

 66,000 were illegitimate. The relation of births 

 to the total population from 1869 to 1874 was 

 as follows : 



The relation of deaths to the total population 

 from 1869 to 1874 was as follows: 



The relation of marriages to the total popu- 

 lation from 1869 to 1874 was as follows: 



The number of voters who, in 1876, were 

 entitled to vote at the general and municipal 

 elections was as follows: General election, 

 9,948,070; municipal election, 9,691,442. 



The budget for 1877, voted by the National 

 Assembly, comprised the following sources 

 of revenue and branches of expenditurs (in 

 francs) : 



REVENUE. 



Direct taxes 412,470,600 



btamps and enregistrement 684,605,451 



Produce of forests 88,'548'680 



Pities 268,855,800 



Indirect taxes 1,089,298,800 



f, r . oduce of posts 110,126,000 



Miscellaneous receipts 99 275 060 



Extraordinary receipts 128',825,421 



Total 2,787,008,812 



EXPENDITURES. 



Ministry of Justice 



Ministry of Foreign Affairs 



Ministry of the Interior 



Ministry of Finances 



Ministry of Public Instruction 



Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. 



Ministry of Public Works 



Ministry of War 



Ministry of the Navy 



Administration of colonies 



General civil government of Algiers 



87,960,485 

 12,720,f)00 

 81,528,886 

 . 1,497,042,632 

 56,628,762 

 19,762,888 

 . 288.246,585 

 . 581,148,886 



186,622,116 

 24,587,822 

 Total -^,786,247,962 



The interest on the public debt, according to 

 the budget of 1877, was as follows: 



Consolidated debt 747,571,080 



Capital that may be called in 800,226,686 



Dette viag<>re 128,868,049 



Total 1,171,180,766 



On January 1, 1873, the new Army law of 

 August 16, 1872, went into operation. Its 

 first article enacts universal liability to mili- 

 tary service. Every Frenchman capable of 

 bearing arms must serve for 20 years, namely, 

 4 years in the standing army, 5 years in the 

 reserve of the standing army, 5 years in the 

 territorial army (Landwehr), and 6 years in the 

 reserve of the territorial army (Landsturm). 



The recruiting in 1875 showed that the num- 

 ber of the young men registered in the military 

 lists as becoming 20 years old in 1874 (" class 

 of 1874 ") was 283,768. In addition to these 

 there were 21,355 properly belonging to the 

 class of 1873. Of these numbers there were : 



Of the 8,769 men of the class of 1872, put 

 back for one year in 1874, 2,041 were declared 

 fit for service. 



Of the men declared fit for service in 1875, 



7.040 were assigned to the Navy for a service 

 of 5 years. The remaining 133,823 of the class 

 of 1874, the 6,304 of the class of 1873, and the 



2.041 of the class of 1872, were divided into 

 2 sections: 



