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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (GEORGIA.) 



Comptroller-General, William A. Wright; Attor- 

 ney-General, Joseph M. Terrell, succeeded Feb. 1, 

 1902, by Boykin Wright; Adjutant-General, J. W. 

 Robertson; Commissioner of Agriculture, O. B. 

 Stevens; Geologist, W. S. Yeates; Chemist, J. M. 

 McCandless; Special Attorney of Western and At- 

 lantic Railroad, E. T. Brown; Pension Commis- 

 sioner, John W. Lindsey; Entomologist, W. M. 

 Scott; Librarian, James Brown, succeeded by C. 

 J. Wellborn in November, 1901; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, S. R. Atkinson, J. Pope Brown, G. 

 Gunby Jordan; Prison Commissioners, J. S. Tur- 

 ner, C. A. Evans, Thomas Eason; Chief Justice 

 Supreme Court, Thomas J. Simmons; Associate 

 Justices, Samuel Lumpkin, Henry T. Lewis, An- 

 drew J. Cobb, William A. Little, William H. Fish ; 

 Clerk, Z. D. Harrison; Court Reporters, George 

 W. Stevens, John M. Graham all Democrats. 



The term of the State officers elected by the 

 people is two years. They are elected the first 

 Monday in October of even-numbered years. The 

 Legislature is elected for two years, and meets 

 annually on the fourth Wednesday in October for 

 a session of fifty days. 



Finances. During the year Gov. Candler was 

 authorized to borrow $200,000 with which to tide 

 over casual deficiencies. The Treasurer, instead 

 of securing the loan from Eastern houses, de- 

 cided to borrow from Georgia banks, and ob- 

 tained the money at the rate of 2-per-cent. in- 

 terest, when Eastern banks were receiving 3 per 

 cent, for similar loans. The balance in the treas- 

 ury Jan. 1, 1902, was $1,356,525.99. The bonded 

 debt of the State Jan. 1, 1902, was $7,631,500. 

 On Jan. 1, 1902, $100,000 of bonds was retired, 

 and the same amount will be retired on the 1st 

 of every January. The annual interest charge 

 on the bonded debt is $325,800. 



The records of the Comptroller-General show 

 that the State owns the Western and Atlantic 

 Railroad, running from Atlanta to Chattanooga, 

 Tenn., 139 miles. This property is estimated in 

 value at $12,000,000. The State owns 186 shares 

 of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, 

 worth $20,700, and 440 shares of stock of the 

 Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company, esti- 

 mated in value at $10,000. 



Valuations. The value of all taxable prop- 

 erty in the State for 1901 is $456,347,034, showing 

 an increase over 1900 of $23,023,343. The in- 

 crease for the year in railroad property alone was 

 $6,385,619. The increase in manufactures was 

 $5,777,228, and the increase in merchandise $3,454,- 

 492. The total amount of property returned for 

 taxation by the negroes of the State was $15,- 

 629,811, an increase of $3,000,000 during the past 

 ten years. The increase in the value of railroad 

 property since 1890 was $13,000,000. 



Appropriations. The appropriations for 1901 

 were as follow: To the State University, $8,000; 

 Academy for the Blind, $18,000; School for the 

 Deaf, $25,000; State Sanitarium, $290,000; State 

 School of Technology, $40,000, and for buildings, 

 $16,000; Georgia Normal and Industrial College, 

 $22,900; North Georgia Agricultural College, 

 $7,000; State Normal School, $22,500; Negro Col- 

 lege, at Savannah, $8,000 ; printing, $15,000 ; Pub- 

 lic Building fund, $17,500; fire insurance, $24,000; 

 Supreme Court reports, $7,500; disabled Confeder- 

 ate veterans, $190,000; indigent veterans, $300,000; 

 widows of Confederate veterans, $200,000; indi- 

 gent widows of soldiers, $100,000; geological de- 

 partment, $8,000; prison department, $112,000; 

 additions to State Sanitarium (special), $150,000; 

 addition to State University (special), $45,000; 

 other special appropriations, $15,000. The addi- 

 tional appropriations available in 1902 are the 



sum of $500,000 to build a new union depot on 

 the property of the State in Atlanta, $19,000 to 

 rebuild the Confederate Soldiers' Home,, $20,000 

 for the State militia, and $63,500 additional to 

 the fund for indigent veterans. 



Banks. The capital of State banks is $9,315,- 

 127.50. There are also in Georgia 32 national 

 banks, with capital of $4,416,000, and 51 private 

 banks, 8 of which are branches of State banks. 

 State Treasurer Park says in his report : " There 

 has been an increase of 24 banks in the State 

 since I entered upon my duties as Treasurer and 

 State Bank Examiner, and the deposits have 

 grown proportionally. There were examined in 

 1900 134 banks, and 169 were examined in 1901, 

 There are chartered at the present time 175 banks. 

 The total increase in loans made by Georgia 

 banks from Nov. 1, 1900, to Sept. 5, 1901, was 

 $5,393,945.81." In 1901 only one failure was re- 

 ported among the State banks. Figures prepared 

 by the department show that the heaviest depos- 

 itors in the State as a class are the farmers. 

 The following figures show the condition of the 

 Georgia State banks in 1901: The resources were 

 Loans, $33,147,888.60; overdrafts, $479,701.98; 

 bonds and stocks, $2,430,067.06; real estate, fur- 

 niture, and fixtures, $1,799,961.97; due from 

 banks and bankers, $3,622,947.62; cash on hand,. 

 $2,484,397.89; other items, $153,243.35; total, $44,- 

 118,208.47. The liabilities were Capital paid in,. 

 $9,315,127.50; surplus and net profits, $3,766,876.- 

 44; due banks and bankers, $986,765.45; due un- 

 paid dividends, $18,958.52; due depositors, $23,- 

 585,161.77; rediscounts, $1,689,204.43; bills paya- 

 ble, $4,752,918.33; other items, $3,196.03; total, 

 $44,118,208.47. 



Education. The report of the State School 

 Commissioner, issued in September, 1901, shows 

 a total enrolment in the public schools of 484,385. 

 The public-school fund for 1901 was $1,505,127, 

 and the same fund for 1902 is $1,538,955.17. The 

 negro common schools have the same term as the 

 white schools, and the enrolment of negro chil- 

 dren is 45 per cent,, while that of the whites is 

 55 per cent. This shows a large increase in the 

 percentage of negroes attending schools. Lack 

 of capable teachers is assigned as the greatest 

 drawback to the negro's education. The School 

 Commissioner is authority for the statement that 

 not 10 per cent, of negro teachers are capable 

 of teaching. The Slater educational fund dis- 

 tributes $5,000 to negro schools in Georgia. The 

 Peabody fund gives $6,000 to white schools and 

 $1,500 to negro schools. Practically $2,000,000 is 

 invested in negro schools for higher education by 

 philanthropic people at the North and East. This 

 is more than all the white schools in the State 

 of similar character are worth. In the rural dis- 

 tricts the poor whites depend on the bounty of 

 a poverty-stricken treasury for their education, 

 while Northern philanthropy provides for the 

 children of the negroes. 



The public schools have had the largest enrol- 

 ment in their history during the past year. All 

 the secondary schools and colleges, without ex- 

 ception, have had largely increased patronage. In 

 almost every county there was held during the 

 past summer an educational rally, generally in 

 the form of the county institute. Under the pres- 

 ent law only $25 is allowed for the pay of an 

 institute teacher. At the meeting of the county 

 superintendents in May, 1901, a resolution was 

 passed urging the Legislature to increase the sal- 

 ary of institute teachers, and also to lengthen 

 the institute term to two weeks. 



In the mountainous portions of Georgia the 

 condition of illiteracy is deplorable. Of the peo- 



