GREECE. 



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The expenditures were estimated as follows: 



Drachma!. 



1. Interest on foreign debt 1.2'46.000 



Interest on Internal debt 7,zH7,749 



2. Pensions 3,818,000 



3. Civil list 1,125,000 



4. Salaries of deputies 460,000 



5. Department of Finance 1,853,270 



6. Foreign Affairs 1,127,196 



7. Justice 8,016,048 



8. Interior 4,802,745 



9. Worship and Education 2,111,949 



10. War 7.687,104 



11. " Marine 2,114,705 



12. Cost of general administration 2,773,262 



18. Miscellaneous expenditures 2,204,000 



Total 41,067,023 



The actual budgets of the kingdom differ, 

 however, widely from the budget estimates. 

 Since the establishment of Greece as an inde- 

 pendent kingdom, there have been few finan- 

 cial terms without a deficit. 



The foreign debt, according to Mollet and 

 "Wyndham (in reports by his Majesty's secreta- 

 ries of Embassy and Legation, 1875 and 1877), 

 amounted, at the close of 1874, to 335,513,422 

 drachmas; the home debt, in 1877, to 147,- 

 569,480: total debt to 483,082,902. 



Every Greek subject is now liable to military 

 service for 30 years from his 20th year: 3 

 years in the active ajmy, 7 years in the reserves 



SITE OF DELPHI. 



of the active army, 10 years in the landwehr, 

 and 10 years in the reserve of the landwehr. 

 The Government may also form foreign legions ; 

 and, in case of an invasion, may call out all 

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men capable of bearing arms between the ages 

 of 18 and 50. According to the law of July 

 18, 1877, the active army is to be composed as 

 follows : 8 infantry regiments of 2 battalions 

 or 8 companies each; 4 battalions of chas- 

 seurs of 4 companies each ; 1 regiment of ar- 



MODEKN GREEK COSTUME. 



tillery of 12 batteries (8 field and 4 mountain 

 batteries) ; 1 regiment cavalry of 5 squadrons; 

 1 battalion of sappers of 6 companies ; and 2 

 companies of nurses. These troops form 2 

 divisions, each of 2 brigades. According to 

 the expectations of the Minister of "War, 200,000 

 men should be in readiness in case of war, of 

 whom 120,000 would belong to the active army 

 and its reserves, 50,000 to the landwehr, and 

 30,000 to its reserves. In time of peace the 

 active army is to consist of 24,376 ; of whom 

 20, 168 are infantry, 1,959 artillery, about 1,000 

 cavalry, and 1,104 sappers. The general staff 

 consists of 19 officers. 



The Navy, in 1877, consisted of 1 iron-clad 

 frigate, 1 monitor, 1 royal yacht, 8 screw- 

 steamers, and 10 sailing vessels. It was manned, 

 in 1876, by 71 officers and 582 sailors. 



The commercial navy consisted, at the close 

 of 1875, of 5,001 vessels of 239,134 tons. Of 

 these, 8,908 vessels, 41,076 tons, were of less 

 than 60 tons each, and 16 were steamers of 

 6,048 tons. 



Greece had, in 1877, only one railroad in 

 operation. It connects Athens with the port of 

 Piraeus and Phalerum, was opened in 1869, and 

 is 12 kilometres long (1 kilom. = 0.62 mile). 

 The aggregate length of the electric telegraph 

 lines, in 1875, was 2,565 kilometres ; that of 

 the wires, 3,165 kilometres. The number of 

 telegraph stations was 60, and the number of 

 dispatches, 249,673. 



A change in the ministry took place in 



