UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (DELAWARK.) 



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J. G. Davenport. The Connecticut court issued a 

 decree Sept. 11, 1651: "Ordered That Norwalke 

 Shall bee a towne, and that they provide an in- 

 habitant according to order, who shall seasonably 

 be tendered to take the oath of a constable." 



Old Saybrook. The two hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the founding of the collegiate school in 

 which Yale University had its beginning was 

 observed at Old Saybrook, Nov. 11, with appro- 

 priate exercises by members of the Yale faculty 

 and sons of the university. Saybrook Point, 

 where a boulder has just been placed to com- 

 memorate the site of the old collegiate school, 

 was in holiday array with decorations of Yale 

 blue in profusion. The boulder has a new bronze 

 tablet inscribed : " The first site of Yale College. 

 Founded 1701. Removed 1716." Commemorative 

 exercises were held in the Congregational Church. 

 The historical address was delivered by Prof. 

 Franklin B. Dexter of Yale, and Dr. Samuel Hart 

 spoke in behalf of the townspeople. 



DELAWARE, a Middle Atlantic State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Dec. 7, 1787; area, 2,120 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial census, was 

 50,096 in 1790; 64,273 in 1800; 72,674 in 1810; 

 72,749 in 1820; 76,748 in 1830; 78,085 in 1840; 

 91,532 in 1850; 112,216 in 1860; 125,015 in 1870; 

 146,608 in 1880; 168,493 in 1890; and 184,735 in 

 1900. Capital, Dover. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, John Hunn; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Philip L. Cannon; Secretary of 

 State, Caleb R. Layton; Treasurer, Martin B. 

 Burris ; Auditor, P. B. Norman ; Attorney-General, 

 Herbert H. Ward; Insurance Commissioner, 

 George W. Marshall; Adjutant-General, I. P. 

 Wickersham; Chemist, T. R. Wolf; President 

 Board of Pilot Commissioners, J. P. Virdin, suc- 

 ceeded by Alfred D. Poole all Republicans; 

 Chancellor, John R. Nicholson, Democrat; Chief 

 Justice, Charles B. Lore, Democrat; Associate 

 Justices, Ignatius C. Grubb and William H. 

 Boyce, Democrats, and W. C. Spruance and James 

 Pennewill, Republicans; Clerk, William Virdin, 

 Democrat. 



The term of the State officers is four years. 

 They are -elected in November of the years of 

 presidential elections. The Legislature meets bi- 

 ennially in January of the odd-numbered years; 

 the session is limited to sixty days. 



Census Figures. Delaware, with a total 

 population of 184,735, has 51 per cent, of males 

 and 49 per cent, of females. One-thirteenth of the 

 population is foreign born. The white and col- 

 ored races are 83.4 and 16.6 per cent., respectively. 



The number of persons of school age, five to 

 twenty years, is 59,635; males of militia age, 

 40,029; males of voting age, 54,018, of whom 

 47,202 are native born and 6,816 foreign born. 

 The colored voters aggregate 8,426. There are 

 54,018 males twenty-one years of age and over, 

 of whom 7,538 are illiterate. Of the illiterates, 

 6,332 are native born, while 1,206 are foreign 

 born. 



Finances. The Auditor's report gave the fol- 

 lowing figures for 1900: Balance in treasury in 

 general fund, $65,152.33; total receipts, $387,- 

 929.20; expenditures, $273,622.50; balance in 

 school fund, $34,035.90; total receipts, $168,- 

 329.90; expenditures, $138,414.54; total receipts 

 of sinking-fund, including balance, $4,608.86; ex- 

 pended, $600. 



The larger items of expenditure were: Interest 

 on Delaware College certificates, $4,980: interest 

 on school fund bond, $9,405 ; interest on outstand- 

 ing bonds, $16,100; salaries of State officers, 



$10,775; salaries of JU,IL'< ;, .^.i.OOO; pension* of 

 retired judges, $3,000; Sla< ! l.^ptsil, $45,000; 

 State militia, $.1,000; printing, x]!j.ooo ; Delaware 

 College government appropriation -'.MI.OOO; State 

 College for Colored Student . "|'!' ! "i"''' 1 *'"". 



$5,000; Industrial School for (,n! , :j,;,oO; free 

 public-school appropriation, n:;iirite- 



nance and tuition of berieficiurn in in- , i: ut ins 

 outside of the State, $2,800; Stati J'.o ; .r<] of 

 Health and pathological and ha- i< i i-,]., M< a! 

 laboratory, $2,300. 



The items of expenditure of the school fun-l 

 were: Free text-books, $18,749.50; apportionment 

 of dividends, $119,665.04. 



The Auditor's estimate of receipts in 1901 was 

 $482,557.53, and of expenditures $341,005. 



The total assets of the State were given as 

 $1,118,509.16. Of this, $10,000 in bank stock and 

 $385,000 in mortgages were investments for the 

 general fund; $416,790 in bank stock and $161,- 

 750 in bonds, for the school fund; $144,967.16 in 

 State buildings (expenditures and improvements 

 in recent years) ; and $973,542 in other assets. 

 The total liabilities are $769,750. 



Education. By the latest report at hand the 

 public schools outside of Wilmington had 22,254 

 white pupils and an attendance of 15,938. 



The report of Delaware College for 1900-1901 

 shows an enrolment of 92, with a graduating class 

 of 18. In September the entering class numbered 

 38. There is a regular teaching corps of 15 pro- 

 fessors and instructors, besides occasional lectur- 

 ers from the staff of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. This last institution has a staff of 6. 



The State College for Colored 'Students gradu- 

 ated 3 students in May. 



A suit before the Supreme Court in January 

 turned on the question \vhether the provision in 

 the school law of 1861 limiting the amount that 

 could be spent in one year for improvements to 

 $500 is still binding. The court held that the 

 act was repealed by the general school law of 

 1898, which imposes no limit. 



Charities. As the State has no institutions 

 for deaf-mute, blind, and imbecile children, a lim- 

 ited number are sent to institutions of other 

 States. At the beginning of the year there were 

 11 pupils from Delaware in the Columbia Institu- 

 tion for the Deaf and Dumb. These pupils are 

 maintained and instructed at an expense to the 

 State of $250 per annum each. There were in the 

 Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

 2 pupils, for whom $260 each was paid. In the 

 Pennsylvania School for the Feeble-Minded 10 

 pupils were kept at an annual expense of $200 

 each. The present statutes limit the number of 

 deaf, dumb, and blind children who can be sent 

 from this State to 5 from each county, and the 

 number of feeble-minded or imbecile children at 

 14 from the State. 



There were 329 inmates at the State Hospital 

 for the Insane Jan. 1. The report showed that 

 at the end of the fiscal year, Dec. 1, on account 

 of an increased number of patients and the in- 

 creased cost of nearly every article purchased, 

 there was a deficit of about $8,000, and on Jan. 1 

 a deficit of about $17,000. 



Corrections. The Ferris Industrial School for 

 Boys, at Wilmington, has 75 inmates. The char- 

 ter provides that Newcastle County shall pay 

 $100 for each boy committed from the county, 

 provided that the sum does not -exceed $5.000 in 

 one year. Boys are also admitted from the other 

 counties, but no appropriations from them are 

 provided for. The gross product of the farm in 

 1900 was $4,500; the total receipts, $29,391.76; 

 expenditures, $23,238.35. 



