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Dominican monastery the chair of Political Econ- 

 omy, established in 1818, of Agricultural Botany, 

 the School of Descriptive Anatomy and Museum, 

 due to the enlightened zeal of Don Alejandro 

 Ramirez, the public Library, the Free School of 

 Drawing^and Painting, the Nautical Academy, the 

 Lancasterian schools, and the Botanical Garden, are 

 noble institutions, partly new and partly old, some 

 of which are susceptible and worthy of improvement, 

 and others need a complete reform to bring them into 

 harmony with the wants of society and the spirit of 

 the age. 



1 The clergy of Cuba is neither numerous nor rich, excepting the 

 bishop of Havana, and the archbishop of Cuba ; the first has 

 $110,000, and the latter $40,000 annual income.* The pre- 

 bendaries have $3,000 a year. The number of ecclesiastics does 

 not exceed 1,100, as appears by the official census which I pos- 

 sess. — H. 



* This has been greatly diminished by the expropriation of the church property. 



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