Form of
government—Constitutions—Presidents—Election—Powers—Executive
Secretaries—Land and sea forces—Congress—Local
subdivisions—Provincial governors—Communal governments.
CHAPTER XIX. Politics and Revolutions
Political parties—Elections—Relation between politics and revolutions—Conduct of revolutions—Casualties—Number of revolutions—Effect of revolutions.
CHAPTER XX. Law and Justice
Audiencia of Santo Domingo—Legal system—Judicial
organization-Observance of law—Prisons—Character of offenses.
CHAPTER XXI. The dominican debt and the fiscal treaty with the United States.
Financial situation in 1905—Causes of debt—Amount of debt—Bonded debt—Liquidated debt—Floating debt—Declared claims—Undeclared claims—Surrender of Puerto Plata custom-house—Fiscal convention of 1905—Modus vivendi—Negotiations for adjustment of debt—New bond issue—Fiscal treaty of 1907—Adjustment with creditors—19l2 loan—Present financial situation.
CHAPTER XXII. Finances
Financial system—National revenues—Customs tariff—National budget—Legal tender—Municipal income—Municipal budgets.