tional purposes in 1901 was 756,943 bolivianos,
or L66,232:6s. There are a military academy at La Paz, an agricultural
school at Umala in the department of La Paz, a mining and civil
engineering school at Oruro, commercial schools at Sucre and Trinidad,
and several mission schools under the direction of religious orders.

_Religion._--The constitution of Bolivia, art. 2, defines the attitude
of the republic toward the Church in the following words:--"The state
recognizes and supports the Roman Apostolic Catholic religion, the
public exercise of any other worship being prohibited, except in the
colonies where it is tolerated." This toleration is tacitly extended to
resident foreigners belonging to other religious sects. The census of
1900 enumerated the Roman Catholic population at 1,609,365, and that of
other creeds at 24,245, which gives the former 985 and the latter 15 in
every thousand. The domesticated Indians profess the Roman Catholic
faith, but it is tinged with the superstitions of their ancestors. They
hold the clergy in great fear and reverence, however, and are deeply
influenced by the forms and ceremonies of the church, which have changed
little since the first Spanish settlements. Bolivia is divided into an
archbishopric and three bishoprics. The first includes the departments
of Chuquisaca, Oruro, Potosi, Tarija and the Chilean province of
Antofagasta, with its seat at Sucre, and is known as the archbishopric
of La Plata. The sees of the three bishoprics are La Paz, Cochabamba and
Santa Cruz. Mission work among the Indians is entrusted to the
_Propaganda Fide_, which has five colleges and a large number of
missions, and receives a small subvention from the state. It is
estimated that these missions have charge of fully 20,000 Indians. The
annual appropriation for the Church is about L17,150. The religious
orders, which have never been suppressed in Bolivia, maintain several
convents.

_Finance._--No itemized returns of receipts and expenditures are ever
published, and the estimates presented to congress by the cabinet
ministers furnish the only source from which information can be drawn.
The expenditures are not large, and taxation is not considered heavy.
The estimated revenues and expenditures for 1904 and 1905 at 21 pence
per boliviano, were as follows: 1904, revenue L632,773:15s., expenditure
L748,571:10s.; 1905, revenue L693,763:17:6, expenditure L828,937:19:9.
The revenues are derived principally fr