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III. Facts relating to the Exercise of the Intellectual Faculties. 
1. The three degrees of public instruction. 
2. Literary and scientific productions, printing, books, lib- 
raries, museums ; newspapers and reviews. 
3. The fine arts. 
IY. Facts relating to the Application of the Physical Faculties 
and of the Intellectual Faculties to Natural Objects. 
1. Agriculture. 
2. Lands built upon and land without buildings. 
3. Extractive and manufacturing industry. Fisheries. 
4. Professions and salaries. 
5. Means of communication. 
6. Commerce and navigation. 
7. Public works, public health, and the food supply of 
towns. 
8. The circulation of men, of things, of valuables, and of 
thought. Post offices and telegraphs. 
9. Credit institutions (except State banks). 
10. Accidents and assurances. 
Y. Facts common to the three above-mentioned orders of faculties. 
1. Political rule, its organs and assemblies. 
2. General administration. 
3. Administration and assemblies of provinces, departments, 
districts, communes, and minor subdivisions. 
4. Army. 
5. Navy. 
VI. 
1. The finances of the State. 
2. The finances of provinces or departments. 
3. Finances of communes or inferior districts. Town dues 
and articles consumed. 
4. State banks — les caisses de depots — mints. 
VII. Colonies or Extra Continental Possessions. 
Dr Mouat, while admitting this scheme to be “ undoubtedly the 
best attempt yet made to reduce to order and precision that which 
