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The Constitution of the Republic of Bolivia boars date October 28, 1880. By its provisions the executive power is vested in a President, elected for a term of four years by direct popular vote; while the legislative authority rests with a Congress of two chambers, called the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies. The suffrage is possessed by all who can read and write. There are 16 Senators and 64 Deputies. The President is assisted in his executive functions by two Vice-Presidents and a ministry, divided into five departments—of Foreign Relations and Worship; Finance and Industry; Government and Colonisation; Justice and Public Instruction; War.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Bolivia
1. Official Publications
Report on the Trade, &c., of Bolivia in 1884–85, in ‘Reports from the Consul of the United States,’ January, 1886. Washington, 1886.
Report on the Trade of Bolivia in 1887, in ‘Deutsches Handels-Archiv,’August, and on a Projected Railway, October, 1888. Berlin, 1888.
Trade of Bolivia with Great Britain, in ‘Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries in the year 1891.’ Imp. 4. London, 1892.
2. Non-Official Publications
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Keltie, J.S. (1893). Bolivia. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253223_9
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