[23] See L. Fernández, Historia de Costa Rica durante la Dominación Española.

[24] Quoted by Fernández, op. cit. p. 316.

[25] Costa Rica, Colección de Leyes, VI, 133; IX, 453.

[26] For these figures, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Manuel Aragón, formerly director of the Costa Rican statistical office.

[27] In the election of 1913, 64,056 votes were cast. The total population in that year was estimated at 410,981.

[28] In this Costa Rica differs from the other republics, where the alcalde and the local representative of the central government are two distinct persons, theoretically independent of one another.

[29] Costa Rica, Anuario Estadístico, 1915.

[30] Bancroft, History of Central America, Vol. III, p. 653.

[31] Costa Rica, Anuario Estadístico, 1913, p. xxxvii.

[32] The annual exports of coffee averaged 13,478,941 kilos, valued at 8,835,726 colones for the ten years 1891-1900; and 14,478,605 kilos, valued at 6,709,767 colones for the ten years 1901-1910. (Costa Rica, Resúmenes Estadísticos, 1883-1910.)

The exportations in the years 1912-1915, according to the Anuario Estadístico for 1913 and for 1915, were as follows:

It should be noted that the value of the colon in 1915, and during a part of 1914, was approximately 20 per cent less than under normal conditions.