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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 politica del Peru. Edicion oficial de la direceion de esladistica. Fol. Lima, 1874.
Paz Soldan (Mariano Felipe), Diceionario geografico-estadistico del Peru: Contiene ademas la etimologia Avmara y Queehua de las principals poblaciones, lagos, rios, cerros, &c. 8. Lima, 1879.
Peru. No. 60 of the Bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics. Washington, 1892.
Raimondi (Antonio), El Perú. 3 vols. Published at Lima. 1874.
American Consular Reports for April 1895. Washington.
Report hy Sir C. Mansfield on the auriferous deposits of Peru. Xo. 167 of ‘Reports on Subjects of General and Commercial Importance.’ 1890.
Reports on the Trade of Peru In Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series. London, 1895.
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 1894.’ Imp. 4 London, 1895.
2. Non-Official Publication
Albertini (L. E.); Pérou en 1878. Paris, 1878.
Bates (H. W.), Central and South America. London, 1882.
Ghérot (A.), Le Pérou : Productions, guano, commerce, finances. &c. 8. Paris. 1876.
Clark (E. B.), Twelve Months in Peru. 8. London, 1891.
Duffield (A.), Peru in the Guano Aze. 8. London, 1877.
El Economists. Weekly. Lima.
Evans (P. F.), From Peru to the Plate. 8. London, 1889
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, Perou 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.), The War between Peru 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.
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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.
Techudi (Joh. Jakob von), Reisen durch Südamerika. 5 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1866–68.
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Wappaeus (Joh. Eduard), Die Republic Peru ; in Stein’s ‘Handbuch der Geographie und Statistik.’ Part III. 8. Leipzig, 1864.
Wiener (Charles), Perou et Bolivie. Paris, 1880.
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Keltie, J.S. (1896). Peru. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253254_41
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