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The Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua was proclaimed on August 19, 1858. It vests the legislative power in a Congress of two Houses, the upper called the Senate, comprising 18 members, and the lower, called the House of Representatives, 21 members. Both branches of the Legislature are elected by universal suffrage, the members of the House of Representatives for the term of four, and those of the Senate for six years. The executive power is with a President elected for four years.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Nicaragua
1. Offical Publications
Report by Mr. Consul Gollan on the Commerce of Greytown, and the Construction of an Interoceanie Canal through Nicaragua, dated January 1876, in ‘Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part IV. 1876. 8. London, 1876.
Report by Consul Jessel on the Commerce of Nicaragua, in 1882, and Consul Bingham on that of Greytown, in ‘Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part IX. 1883.
Reports on the Trade and Commerce of Greytown in 1884, in Part VIII., and Nicaragua in Part IX., of ‘Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ London, 1885.
Reports on the Commerce and Inventions of Nicaragua, in Nos. 53 and 54 of ‘Reports of the Consuls of the United States,’ 1885; and on the Revenue in No. 64, 1886. Washington.
Report on the Trade of Nicaragua, in ‘Deutsches Handels-Archiv,’ February and July 1889.
2. Non-Official Publications
Belly (N.), Percement de l’isthme de Panama par le canal de Nicaragua. 8. Paris, 1885.
Belt (Thomas), The Naturalist in Nicaragua: a Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales, &c. 8. London, 1873.
Billow (A. von), Der Freistaat Nicaragua in Mittelamerika. 8. Berlin, 1849.
Keller (J.), Le canal de Nicaragua. 8. Paris, 1859.
Levy (P.), Notas geograflcas y economicas sobre la república de Nicaragua. Paris, 1873.
Marr (Wilhelm), Reise nach Centralamerika. 2 vols. 8. Hamburg, 1863.
Scherzer (Karl, Ritter von), Wanderungen durch die mittelamerikanischen. Freistaaten Nicaragua, Honduras und San Salvador. 8. Braunschweig, 1857.
Squier (B. G.), Sketches of Travel in Nicaragua. 8. New York, 1851.
Squier (E. G.), Nicaragua, its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the proposed Interoceanic Canal. 2 vols. 8. London, 1852.
Wethum (J. W. Bodham), Across Centra! America. 8. London, 1877.
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Keltie, J.S. (1890). Nicaragua. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253193_35
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