RELIGION
373
The rate of illegitimacy varies from 42 per cent, in Carinthia, 28 in Salzburg, 27 in Lower Austria, 24 in Styria, 19 in Upper Austria, to 3*2 per cent, in Dalmatia.
The following are the emigration statistics of A ustria-Hungary for five years : —
Year
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Total Emigrants
65,544 25,566 66,101 67,456 37,215
To N. America To Argentine
To Brazil
65,878 22,965 50,951 45,327
685 440 549 220
2,737 754 10,511 11,389 !
According to United States statistics : the immigrants into the United States comprised in 1896, 34,196 Austrians and 30,898 Hungarians; in 1897, 18,006 Austrians and 15,025 Hun- garians; in 1898, 23,118 Austrians and 16,662 Hungarians.
III. Pkincipal Towns.
The following were the populations of the principal towns on December 31, 1890:—
USTHIA :—
Krakau
76,025
Laibach . 30,691
Vienna
1,364,548
Czernowitz
57,403
Koloniea . 30,160
Prague
184,109
Pilsen
50,693
Budweis . 28,730
Trieste
158,344
Linz .
47,560
Salzburg . 27,741
Lemberg
128,419
Pola .
39,273
Tarnopol . 26,097
Gratz
113,540
Przemysl .
35,619
Wiener-Neustadt25, 324
Briinn
95,342
Reichenberg
31,033
Aussig . 24,083
Religion.
In Austria the relation of the State to the religious bodies is regulated by the statutes of December 21, 1867, and of May 25, 1868. In these the leading principle is religious liberty, the independence of the Church as regards the State, saving the rights of the sovereign arising from ecclesiastical dignity. Full liberty of faith and conscience is secured, and the enjoyment of civil and political rights is independent of religious profession. Every religious body legally recognised has the right of ordinary public worship, the management of its own affairs, and the undisturbed possession of its premises, endowments, and funds for the purposes of worship, instruction, or charity. Recognised religious bodies in Austria are : — The Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Greek- Oriental, Evangelical (Augsburg or Lutheran, and Helvetian or Reformed), the Evangelical Brotherhood, the Gregorian-Armenian,
