CHIQUITOS, a province of Bolivia, in the department of Santa Cruz. The country is mountainous and marshy; but some portions of it are fertile, and these produce a variety of fruits, of which the varilla, and a peculiar species of the cocon-nut, are the most common.
CHIROGRAPH was anciently a deed which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment counterwise, leaving a space between, in which was written CHIROGRAPH, and through the middle of which the parchment was cut, sometimes straight, sometimes in-
dentedly, and a moiety given to each of the parties. This was afterwards called dividenda and charta divisa, and was the same with what we now call charter-party. The first use of these chirographs in England was in the time of Henry III.