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The Republic of Costa Rica, an independent State since the year 1821, and forming part from 1824 to 1829 of the Confederation of Central America, is governed under a Constitution first promulgated in 1870, but modified very frequently since that date. Practically there was no constitution between 1870 and 1882. The legislative power is vested in a Chamber of Representatives one representative to every 8,000 inhabitants chosen in electoral assemblies, the members of which are returned by the suffrage of all who are able to live ‘respectably.’ There were 537 electors in 1889, and 26 deputies (32 in 1895). The members of the Chamber are elected for the term of four years, one-half retiring every two years. The executive authority is in the hands of a president, elected, in the same manner as the Congress, for the term of four years.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Costa Eica
1. Official Publications
Anuario ostadístico de la Republica de Costa Rica. San José.
Calvo (J. B.), República de Costa Kica, Apuntamientos geográficos, estadisticos e históricos. San Jose, 1887. Censo General do la Republica de Costa Rica. 18 Fèbrero, 1892. San Jose, 1893.
Costa Rica—Bulletin No. 31 of the Bureau of the American Republics. 8. Washington, 1892.
Estadistica del comcrcio exterior de la Republica de Costa Rica. San José.
Memoria de la secretaria de gobernación, policia y fomento. San José.
Memoria de la secretaria de guerra y marina. San José.
Memoria de la secretaria de hacienda y comercio. 5. San José.
Villaviceucio (Enrique), Director of Statistical Bureau. Republica de Costa Rica. Año de 1886. San Jose, 1886.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series. London.
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. 4. London.
2. Non-Official Publications
Bates (H. W.), Central and South America. New edition. London, 1882.
Belly (Felix), A travers l’Amérique centrale. 2 vols. 8. Paris, 1872.
Biolley (Paul), Costa Kica and her Future. Washington, 1889.
Boyle (Frederick), Ride across a Continent: a Personal Narrative of Wanderings through Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 2 vols. 8. London, 1868.
Caceres (J. M.), Geografia de Centro-America. Paris, 1882.
Camphuis (G. W.), Costa Rica : The Country for Emigrants. London.
Fröbel (Julius), Aus Amerika. 2 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1857–58.
Marr (N.), Reise nach Centralamerika. 2 vols. 8. Hamburg, 1863.
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Peralta (Manuel M.), Costa Rica: its Climate, Constitution, and Resources. With a survey of its present financial position. 8. London, 1873.
Scherzer (Karl, Ritter von), Statistisch-commeraelle Ergcbnisse ciner Reise um die Erde. 8. Leipzig, 1867.
Scherzer (Karl, Bitter von), Wanderungen durch die mittelamerikanischen Freistaaten. 8. Braunschweig, 1857.
Wagner (Moritz), Die Republik Costa Rica in Centralamerika. 8. Leipzig, 1856.
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Keltie, J.S. (1896). Costa Rica. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253254_16
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