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The republic of Switzerland, formerly a league of semi-independent states, or ‘Staatenbund,’ has become a united confederacy, or ‘Bundesstaat,’ since the year 1848. The present constitution, product of a short civil Avar, bears date September 12, 1848. It vests the supreme legislative and executive authority in a parliament of two-chambers, a ‘Stünderath,’ or State Council, and a ‘Nationalrath,’ or National Council. The first is composed of forty-four members, chosen by the twenty-two cantons of the Confederation, two for each canton. The ‘Nationalrath’ consists of 135 representatives of the Swiss people, chosen in direct election, at the rate of one deputy for every 20,000 souls.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Switzerland
1. Official Publication
Geschäftsberichte des schweizerischen Bundesraths an die Bundesversammlung. 8. Bern, 1872.
Message du Conseil fédéral à la haute Assemblée fédérale concernant le recensement fédéral du 1 décembre 1870. Le 12 juillet 1871. 8. Bern, 1871.
Résultats du compte d’état de la Confédération suisso pour l’année 1870, comparés à ceux des années 1866–1869. 4. Bern, 187I.
Schweizerische Statistik. Herausgegeben vom Statistischen Bureau des Eidgenöss. Departements des Innern. 4. Bern, 1870–1.
Uebersicht über das Staatsvermögen der Kantone im Jahre 1870. 4. Bern,. 1871.
Reports by Mr. Rumbold, British Secretary of Legation, on the Finances of Switzerland ; dated May, 1866, and Feb., 1867; in ‘Reports by H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy.’ Nos. I. and IV. 1867. London, 1867.
Report by Mr. Rumbold, British Secretary of Embassy, ‘on the Trade and Industry of Switzerland, during the five years 1863 to 1868,’ dated December, 1868; in ‘Reports of H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ No. II. 1869. London, 1869.
Report by Mr. G. T. Gould, British Secretary of Legation, on the Financial Postiion of the Swiss Confederation, dated Geneva, Dec. 24, 1871 ; in ‘Reports-H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ No. I. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Report by Mr. Horace Rublec, Minister Resident of the United States, on the Revision of the Constitution of Switzerland, dated Berne, July 3, 1871 ; in ‘Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States.’ 8. Washington, 1871.
Report by 3Ir. Consul Mackenzie ‘on the Trade and Commerce of the Cantons of Switzerland,’ dated Geneva, July 21, 1868 ; in ‘Commercial Reports received at the Foreign Office.’ No. XI. 1868. London, 1868.
Report by Mr. Consul Mackenzie on the Tenure of Land in the Canton of Geneva, dated October 1, 1869; in ‘Reports from IL M.’s Representatives respecting the Tenure of Land.’ Part II. Fol. London, 1870.
Statistics of Switzerland ; in ‘Statistical Tables relating to Foreign Countries.’ Part XII. Fοl. London, 1870.
2. Non-Official Publications
Gisi (Dr.Wilh.), Bevölkerungsstatistik der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft und ihrer Kantone. 8. Aarau, 1868.
Grisi (Dr. Wilh.), Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik. Herausgegeben von der Schweizerischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, mit Mitwirkung des eidgenössischen Statistischen Bureaus. Achter Jahrgang. 4. Bern, 1872.
Kolb (G. Fr.), Beiträge zur Statistik der Industrie und dos Handels der Schweiz. 8. Zürich, 1859.
Lombard (Dr. H. C.), Répartitions mensuelles des décés dans quelques cantons de la Suisse. 4, pp. 11. Bern, 1868.
Stossel (Dr. J.), Die Ausgaben des schweizerischen Bundes und der Kantone im Jahr 1864. S, pp. 77. Beru, 1865.
Wirth (Max.), Allgemeine Beschreibung und Statistik der Schweiz. Im Verein mit gegen 60 Schweizerischen Gelehrten und Staatsmännern herausgegeben. Vol. I. 8. Zürich, 1871.
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Martin, F. (1873). Switzerland. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253025_14
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