[18] The province or provinces named are those out of which the department was chiefly formed.
[19] The tax on land (propriétés non bâties) and that on buildings (propriétés bâties) are included under the head of contribution foncière.
[20] With revenues of over £1200.
[21] For a history of the French debt, see C.F. Bastable, Public Finance (1903).
[22] In 1894 the rentes then standing at 4½% were reduced to 3½%, and in 1902 to 3%.
[23] Algerian native troops are recruited by voluntary enlistment. But in 1908, owing to the prevailing want of trained soldiers in France, it was proposed to set free the white troops in Algeria by applying the principles of universal service to the natives, as in Tunis.
[24] Kerguelen lies in the Great Southern Ocean, but is included here for the sake of convenience.
[25] In 1906 the number of registered electors in these colonies was 199,055, of whom 106,695 exercised their suffrage.
[26] In the case of Madagascar by decree of the 11th of December 1895.
[27] The Indo-China budget is reckoned in piastres, a silver coin of fluctuating value (1s. 10d. to 2s.). The budget of 1907 balanced at 50,000,000 piastres.