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The following figures indicate what amount of public money goes to the cause of education in Cuba:
| University | $120,650 |
| Department of Secretary of Public Instruction | 58,300 |
| Professional School | 18,300 |
| Drawing and Fine Arts School | 8,750 |
| Normal School for Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses | 25,147 |
| Total | $231,147 |
The municipalities in all the Island pay $775,646 for 888 schools for boys and girls (1893), four per cent. on all municipal taxes taken from this.
The Provincial Elementary State Schools are paid by the Diputaciones Provinciales. (Paid out of cedula tax.)
In 1893 they (the Diputaciones Provinciales) paid:
| Havana | $37,550 |
| Pinar del Rio (closed) | 12,650 |
| Matanzas | 14,650 |
| Santa Clara | 15,900 |
| Puerto Principe | 14,650 |
| Santiago de Cuba | 15,900 |
| Total | $110,400 |
The religion of the Island is Roman Catholic, and no other religious bodies are permitted to exercise their belief in public, although no interference has ever been attempted with individual belief so long as the individual was careful not to interfere with the established religion. There are no churches of any kind except Catholic and Baptist.
From the beginning until 1788 the Island consisted of a single diocese with the seat of the bishop at Santiago de Cuba, which has always been the religious centre; but in that year the diocese of Havana was created, with a bishop in charge, and Santiago was erected into a bishopric with an archbishop. The religious festivals and celebrations at Santiago are observed with an attempt at magnificence nowhere else approached on the Island.