Guatemala, the Country of the Future1906 - 80 sayfa |
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00 Reserve fund agricultural Alta Verapaz Amatitlan American Antigua Atitlan Atlantic Baja Verapaz BANK BANCO cacao capital Central America Cerro Champerico chiefly Chiquimula climate coffee commerce Consul copper cotton crop cultivation Department Department of Guatemala districts Escuintla especially Estrada Cabrera's administration exports feet foreign forests Germany given gold government of Guatemala Guate Guatemala Central Guatemala City Gulf Hague hennequen highlands hot coast Huehuetenango immigration imported Indian industries Izabal Jalapa lakes land lead limestones machinery mala Manuel Estrada Cabrera Mazatenango ment Mexico miles mines Minister Motagua mountain native Northern Railway Pacific coast peace plantation plants ports pounds President Estrada Cabrera principal Puerto Barrios Quezaltenango Quiche railroad regions relations Republic Retalhuleu rich rivers rubber San José San Marcos Santa Maria schools Señor DON shipments silver soil Solola Spanish sugar tion Totonicapam trees tropical United volcanoes
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Sayfa 28 - Art. 49. The executive power is exercised by the President of the Republic, who shall be elected every four years by direct vote.
Sayfa 67 - The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels, when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration.
Sayfa 67 - ART. 4. If, for any cause whatever, the Permanent Court of The Hague should not be opened to one or more of the High Contracting Parties, they obligate themselves to stipulate, in a special Treaty, the rules under which the Tribunal shall be established, as well as its form of procedure, which shall take cognizance of the questions referred to in article 1 of the present Treaty.
Sayfa 27 - ... States do not allow the Government to act for them. Individual freedom in the heart of the State, liberty of the States in the heart of the Union, is the principle of the federal constitution, and of the constitution of each of the States. There are three distinct powers in the government of the Union : the legislative power, the executive power, and the judicial power.
Sayfa 74 - ... pueblo. Six of these monuments are tall stones measuring three to five feet square and standing fourteen to twenty feet out of the ground. Five are oblong or rounded blocks of stone, shaped so as to represent huge turtles or armadillos.
Sayfa 74 - ... of what appears to be actual picture-writing, each division measuring about eighteen inches square, and containing usually two or three grotesque figures of men and animals. The design of these picture writings shows considerable variety and freedom of treatment, as compared with that of the large figures, in the execution of which the artist seems to have been bound by conventional rules. " The largest of the stone animals is, perhaps, the most remarkable of all the monuments, its measurement...
Sayfa 74 - They consist of numerous square or oblong mounds and terraces varying from six to forty feet in height, some standing by themselves, others clustered in irregular groups. Most of these mounds were faced with worked stone and were ascended by flights of stone steps. "The interest centers in the thirteen large carved monoliths which are arranged irregularly round what were probably the most important plazas.
Sayfa 47 - Germany, principal! y; piece goods from Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Silks are not in demand, excepting floss silks imported from China. ribbons from Switzerland, France, and Germany. Regarding hardware generally, approximately 50 per cent is imported from Germany, 30 per cent from the United States, and 20 per cent from the United Kingdom. The principal imports from the United States consist of machetes, axes, and hoes, besides tools generally of the better classes, corn...
Sayfa 33 - This period lasts three or four days, when the blossoms fall and the "cherry/' as it is called, begins to appear. This "cherry" reaches maturity in October, and is ready for gathering and "pulping," that is, for the removal of the outer shell and pulp, after which it is washed and carried to dry, spread out in brick paved yards exposed to the sun.