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THE Republic of Peru, formerly the most important of the Spanish Viceroyalties in South America, issued its declaration of independence July 28, 1821; but it was not till after a war, protracted till 1824, that the country gained its actual freedom from Spanish rule. The Republic is politically divided into departments, and the departments into provinces. The present Constitution, proclaimed October 16, 1856, was revised November 25, 1860. It is modelled on that of the United States, the legislative power being vested in a Senate and a House of Representatives, the former composed of deputies of the provinces, in the proportion of one for every 30,000 inhabitants or fraction exceeding 15,000, and the latter of representatives nominated by the electoral colleges of the provinces of each department, at the rate of two when the department has two provinces, and one more for every other two provinces. The parochial electoral colleges choose deputies to the provincial colleges, who in turn send representatives to Congress, and elect the municipal councils as well.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Peru
1. Official Publications
Demarcacion política del Peru. Edicion oficial de la direccion de estadistica. Fol. Lima, 1874.
Paz Soldan (Mariano Felipe), Diccionario geográfico-estadistico del Peru : Contiene ademas la etimología Aymara y Quechua de las principales poblaciones, lagos, rios, cerros, &c. 8. Lima, 1879.
Raimondi (Antonio), El Peru. 3 vols. Published Lima, 1874.
Report by Sir Spenser St. John, British Minister, on the Population, Mining Industry, and Railways of Peru, in ‘Reports from H.M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ Part IV. 1878. 8. London, 1878.
Report by Mr. Consul Graham on the Trade of Islay, dated Islay, January 15, 1875, in ‘ Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part III. 1875. 8. London, 1875.
Report by Acting Consul Wilson on the Trade and Commerce of Callao for 1883–84, in ‘ Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part VII. London, 1885.
Reports by Mr. Consul Nugent on the Trade of Arica; by Mr. Consul March on the Trade of Callao; and by Mr. Consul Graham on the Trade and Commerce of Islay, dated February 1876; in ‘ Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part VI. 1876. 8. London, 1876.
Report on Peru, in ‘ Reports of the Consuls of the United States,’ No. 46, 1884, No. 73, 1887, Ko. 92, 1888 (Paper Money).
Report on the Trade of Callao in 1888, in ‘ Deutsches Handels-Archiv,’ August 1889, Berlin, 1889.
Report on the Trade of Moliendo (Islay), 1886, in Ko. 118 ‘ Diplomatic and Consular Reports,’ and in 1887, in No. 349, 1888.
Trade of Peru with Great Britain, in ‘Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions for the year 1888.’ Imp. 4. London, 1889.
2. Non-Official Publications
Albertini (L. E.), Pérou en 1878. Paris, 1878.
Bates (H. W.), Central and South America. London, 1882.
Chérot (A.), Le Pérou : Productions, guano, commerce, finances, &c. 8. Paris, 1876.
Duffield (A.), Peru in the Guano Age. 8. London, 1877.
Fuentes (Manuel A.), Lima, or Sketches of the Capital of Peru : Historical, Statistical, Administrative, Commercial, and Moral. 8. London, 1866.
Grandidier (E.), Voyage dans l’Amérique du Sud, Pérou et Bolivie. 8. Paris, 1863.
Guillaume (H.), The Amazon Provinces of Peru as a Field for European Emigration. London, 1888.
Hill (S. S.), Travels in Peru and Mexico. 2 vols. 8. London, 1860.
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Markham (C. R.), Peru. 1881.
Markham (C. R.), The War between Pern and Chili, 1879–81. London, 1883.
Markham (Clements R.), Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the Collection of Cinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and their Introduction into India. 8. London, 1862.
Menendez (D. Baldomero), Manuel de geografía y estadística del Perú. 12. Paris, 1862.
Paz Soldan (Mariano Felipe), Historia del Peru Independente. 3 vols.
Squier (E. G.), Peru : Incidents of Travels and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. 8. London, 1877.
Temple (Edmond), Travels in various Parts of Peru. 2 vols. London, 1830.
The Railways of Peru in 1873. 8. London, 1874.
Tschudi (Joh. Jakob von), Reisen durch Südamerika. 5 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1866–68.
Uriel (Comte C. d’), Sud Amérique : Séjours et voyages au Brésil, en Bolivie, et au Pérou. 12. Paris, 1879.
Wappaeus (Joh. Eduard), Die Republic Peru ,’ in Stein’s ‘Handbuch der Geographie und Statistik.’ Part III. 8. Leipzig, 1864.
Wiener (Charles), Pérou et Bolivie. Paris, 1880.
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Keltie, J.S. (1890). Peru. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253193_40
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