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Argentine Republic: Dollars

Dollars.

Dollars. 58,135,000 54,098,227 57,651,711 50,801,631 Dollars. 74,676,706 Dollars. 50,687,544 73,407,670 92,853,846 The expenditure for 1891 was reduced to $58,252,362. DEFENCE.

The army comprises II generals, 238 field officers, and 880 subalterns, with 238 engineers, 789 artillery, 2,227 horse, and 2,331 foot, in all 5,585 combatants. The militia comprises 236,000 men, between 17 and 45 years, and 68,000 reserve, between 45 and 60 years.

There is a military school, with 125 cadets, and a school for non-commissioned officers. The naval school has 60 cadets, and the school of gunners 80. In 1891 the navy of the republic included one sea-going armor-clad, two coast-defence armor-clads (monitors), two deck-protected cruisers, seven gunboats, two transports, three screw and four paddle despatch boats, one torpedo school-ship, four torpedo-boats, four spar torpedo-boats, and one sailing corvette. There are in all about 58 guns. The sea-going armor-clad Almirante Brown is of 4,200 tons displacement, 5,380 horse-power, and is protected by 9-inch steel-faced armor.