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| | Encyclopedia: Colonie (town), New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Towns, &c.The capital of British Guiana is Georgetown, at the mouth of the Demerara river, on its right bank, with a population of about 50,000. |
 | | Administration.The colony is administered by a commissioner-general assisted by a privy council, including the secretary general and chief of the judicial service, the military, penitentiary and administrative departments. |
 | | Of the 256,000 demanded for the colony in the colonial budget for 1906, 235,000 represented the estimated expenditure on the penal settlement, so that the cost of the colony was only about 21,000. |
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