[XXX-25] Besides having a school of drawing, painting, and modelling, and a night-school for artisans, it is provided with a cabinet of physics, with the view of establishing a school of chemistry applicable to industry. The museum installed in 1866 is every day enriched with new acquisitions.
[XXX-26] 1872-4, paid by municipalities, $16,051; by national govt, $112,048; 1879-83, paid by municipalities, to whom had been ceded the urban tax, $36,242; by the national treasury, $1,773,899. It seems that the total amount paid for pub. instruction from 1860 to 1870 had not much exceeded $60,000. Guat., Mem. Sec. Fomento, 1885, annex 12, table 16.
[XXX-27] Under the former régime books objectionable to the church, for sustaining liberal ideas on social or religious topics, were placed, by a decree of the national assembly of Oct. 16, 1841, in the list of the forbidden; and the church was authorized to proceed against them. Guat., Recop. Ley., iii. 286-7.
[XXX-28] This was made evident in several acts. The clergy were daily abused; the liberal leaders constantly inveighing against their fanaticism and intolerance, and ridiculing many things which the populace looked upon as sacred. Friars were held up in a multitude of anecdotes, and otherwise, as so many destructive insects. El Liberal, nos. 28-30, 41, 45, 49. The arts and objects of priestcraft were exposed to ridicule, contempt, and reprobation. A play called 'La Inquisicion por dentro' had a great run, and brought that institution into effectual and lasting odium. Squier's Travels Cent. Am., i. 372. The inquisition of Mex. had had jurisdiction over Cent. Am. After its final abolishment, the king of Spain decreed, March 9, 1820, that all cases pending before its courts should be referred to the ordinaries for determination. The inquisitors failed to obey, and removed from the archives of Guat. all the cases pending there, alleging complicity on the part of the archbishop. The matter was laid before the córtes by Deputy Mendez of Salv. May 14, 1821. Dispos. Var., iii. 152; Fernando VII., Decretos, 285-6; Córtes, Diario, xviii. 1821, May 14, 6.
[XXX-29] One on pastorals; another required the archbishop's appointments of parish priests to be previously submitted for confirmation to the chief of the state. La Tertulia Patriótica, no. 4. By law of Nov. 8, 1824, the clergy were deprived of their privilege to import goods free of duties; another of June 9, 1826, reduced the tithes to one half. El Liberal, no. 36. Others of May 3, and June 9, 1826, gave natural children the right to inherit either extestamento or abintestato, and those of ordained priests and professed nuns were placed in the same category; one forbidding, Sept. 1, 1826, the prelates of religious orders to recognize obedience to or hold relations with their respective generals in Spain; and finally, the famous decrees of June 10 and July 20, 1826, forbidding the admission into convents or nunneries of persons under 23 years, or to profession any under 25. Marure, Bosq. Rev. Cent. Am., i. 244-6; Guat., Gaceta, Feb. 16, 1856; Squier's Cent. Am., 265-7.
[XXX-30] Such writings appeared in El Indicador, nos. 90, 94, 95, 149, 152.
[XXX-31] This was almost unanimously sanctioned by the people, and at once carried into effect. Rocha, Cód. Nic., i. 373; ii. 373-80; Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 273; Id., Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 156-8; Squier, Compend. Hist. Cent. Am., 61; Squier's Trav. Cent. Am., i. 370-1; ii. 390-4; Thompson's Guat., 145-50; Stout's Nic., 149-51; Crowe's Gospel, 123-32, 135; Reichardt, Cent. Am., 39; Cal. Overland Monthly, xiv. 160-1; Dunlop's Cent. Am., 178, 181, 186; Nic., El Porvenir, Oct. 22, 1871; Feb. 16, 1873.
[XXX-32] Under this law Fred. Crowe, an English protestant missionary, and the author of the Gospel in Central America, resided several years in Guat., till he was driven away by the serviles.
[XXX-33] Pursuant to which Father Delgado was chosen and acted as bishop of San Salvador, though without confirmation by the pope, for about four years. He was never confirmed, but retained as vicar-general, under the archb. of Guat. Montúfar, Reseña Hist., ii. 13-17; Marure, Bosq Hist. Rev. Cent. Am., 196-9, and Docs, xviii.-xix., xxx.-xxxii.; Id., Efem., 14; Mem., Hist. Rev. Cent. Am., 32-7; Cabildo, Ecles. Informe, 54-5; Squier's Trav. Cent. Am., i. 370-1; Niles' Reg., xxix. 39.
[XXX-34] Guat., Recop. Ley., iii. 273, 294-324; Montúfar, Reseña Hist., iii. 522-4; iv. 146, 205-7, 552; Crosby's Statem., MS., 91, 105-7, 110-11; Squier's Cent. Am., 515-16; Belly, Nic., i. 162-3.