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election every fifty indirect electors choose a delegate, and the delegates vote along with the direct electors of the Colleges. For the Senate there are only two Colleges. The first consists of those electors having property yielding annually at least 80^. ; the second, of those persons whose income from property is from 32/. to SQL per annum. Both Senators and Deputies receive 20 "lei for each day of actual attendance, besides free railway passes. The King has a suspensive veto over all laws passed by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The executive is vested in a council of eight ministers, the President of which is Prime Minister, and may or may not have a special department.
Senate (1912) : Conservatives, 88 ; Liberals, 24.
Chamber of Deputies (1912) : Liberals 35, Conservatives 146, Conservative Democrats 10, 2 Independents.
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. — M. Majoreseo, Oct. 27, 1912.
Local Government. For purposes of local government Wallachia is divided into seventeen, Moldavia into thirteen, and the Dobruja into two districts, each of which has a prefect, a receiver of taxes, and a civil tribunal. (The chief difference between the Dobruja and the other districts is that it does not elect senators or deputies. , In Rumania there are (1909) 372 arrondissements (plasi) and 2,664 communes) 71 urban and 2,593 rural, hi the rural communes there are 8,487 villages, and 1,048 hamlets. The appellations 'urban' and 'rural' do not depend on the number of inhabitants, but are given by law.
Area and Population.
Departments sq_ jj^^gg
Population
(Jensus
Census
'
19 Dec. 1912
Den. 1899
Bacau 1 1,540
232,146
195,194
Botosani
. ' 1,220
197,118
171,437
Covuiiui
. : 1,140
171,710
143,784
Dorohoi
. 1 1,090
184,357
159,461
Falchiu.
. ; 850
108,324
93,831
Jassy .
. ' 1,210
213,196
192,531
Neamtsu
. : 1,540
169,794
149,711':
Putna .
- i 1,250
181,103
151,249
Roman .
810
128,190
111,588
Suchava
1,320
158,971
131,596
Tecuchi
980
142,993
121,179
Tutova .
920
129,858
116,377
Vaslui .
840
127,704
110,184
Argesh .
1,710
242,946
207,605-
Braila .
1,680
181,033
145,284
Buzau .
1,880
277,598
221,263
Dambovitsa .
1,340
258,367
211,666
Jalomitsa
. ' 2,620
242,611
187,889
Ilfov .
. i 2,230
678,769
541,180
Muschel
. 1 1,140
135,616
115,180
Oltu .
1,000
171,262
143,843
Prahova
. , 1,800
389,785
307,302
Romnicu-Sai-at
. 1 1,260
164,166
136,918
Teleorman .
1,810
296,759
238,628:
Vlashka
1,730
259,482
202,759
Dolj .
2,540
437,517
365,579
Gorj .
1,810
200,859
171,300
Mehedintsi .
1,910
295,548
249,fi8S
Rumanatsi .
1,770
248.401
203,773
Valchea
1,640
231,572
190,903
Constanta .
2,670
217,740
141,056
Tulcha
. : 3,330
172,566
126,752
Tota
1
.
. ( 50,720
7,248,061
5,956,690
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