Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . Males. Females. 746 110 1,294 180 m 167 535 44 706 218 4,078 734 The Government, not satisfied with merelyhaving established public schools throughoutthe country, still continues to bestow uponthe cause of education a degree of care andzealous attention which cannot fail to prove The number of scholars attending all schools,public and private, in the capital, was 3,527; thetotal monthly expenditure for the public schoolsof the city being $15, per month. Sefior Macal proposes a complete reorgani-zation of the p
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . Males. Females. 746 110 1,294 180 m 167 535 44 706 218 4,078 734 The Government, not satisfied with merelyhaving established public schools throughoutthe country, still continues to bestow uponthe cause of education a degree of care andzealous attention which cannot fail to prove The number of scholars attending all schools,public and private, in the capital, was 3,527; thetotal monthly expenditure for the public schoolsof the city being $15, per month. Sefior Macal proposes a complete reorgani-zation of the public schools, especially thosefor the primary branches, and some desirablemodifications in the present system of manage-ment. It is also highly probable that gym-nasiums will be established in connection withthe public schools. The department of the Interior and PublicWorks was engaged in examining severalschemes proposed for the development of theagricultural interests of the republic. No regular returns of the finances and com-merce of Guatemala were published last year,. GUATEMALA LA ANTIGUA. so that the most recent statistics to be con-sulted on these branches are those given in theAnnual Cyclopedia for 1875. In the matter of the national debt the Gua- temala Government issued a decree on Apnl27, 1876, by virtue of which the loan decreedon February 28th of the same year was in-creased to $500,000. GUIGNIAUT, JOSEPH D. nANSON, RICHARD D. 375 A premium of 20 per cent, was granted onthis second loan, both capital and premium tobear interest at one per cent, per month, paya-ble every three months. Another decree of same date directs that allpromissory notes and orders emanating fromthis war debt shall bo admissible in paymentin all the tfovernment offices. After July 1stthe interest on tins debt and on the promis-sory notes was to be paid at the National the s ime date the 25 per cent, increaseon certain import dues decreedon March 11th,and the new duties on certai
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