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eighteen, tliey were recently increased to nineteen by the addition of Callao, 

 which, owing to its growing importance, has been detached from Lima, of which 

 it formed one of the seven provinces, and is now constituted a department. The 

 number of provinces into which each department is subdivided differs greatly, 

 some having only two or three, others as many as eight or even ten. In the dis- 

 tribution of the franchise this is an important consideration, as the representation 

 of the departments does not increase uniformly with the number of their provinces. 

 Thus a department with two provinces will have four representatives, whereas 

 one with three provinces will have five only, not six, which would be the propor- 

 tionate number. 



For details of areas and populations, see Appendix. 



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