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cipe. The captain-general, who is also governor 

 of the department of Havana, appoints a lieute- 

 nant-governor for each of the several districts. The 

 jurisdiction of the captain-general extends also as 

 Corregidor to eight municipalities, being the cities 

 of Matanzas, Jaruco, San Felipe y Santiago, and 

 Santa Maria del Rosario, and the towns of Guana- 

 bacoa, Santiago de las Yegas, Guines, and San Anto- 

 nio de los Banos. 



The department of Cuba comprises the district of 

 that name, and those of Baracoa, Holguin, and 

 Bayamo. The boundaries of these two departments 

 are not the same with, those of the ecclesiastical 

 divisions.; as, for instance, the district of Puerto 

 Principe, with seven parishes, was subject, in 1814, 

 to the governor of Havana, and to the bishop of 

 St. Jago de Cuba. In the census of 1817-20, Puerto 

 Principe is united, with Bayamo and Baracoa, to the 

 department of Cuba. 1 



We have only to consider the third subdivision, 



1 In 1827, the Politico-Military constitution was re-organized, and 

 the island was divided into three departments — Western, Central, 

 and Eastern — with some alterations in the districts, required by the 

 increase of population. This subdivision continued until 1850, 

 when the old form of two departments was re-established — the dis- 

 trict of Puerto Principe being placed under the jurisdiction of the 

 governor of the Eastern department. 



