UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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Fourth District; Charles E. Parker and Gerrit 

 A. Forbes in the Sixth District; and William li. 

 Adams in the Seventh District. There was also 

 an election in the Twenty-fourth Congressional 

 District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 A. D. Shaw, and the nominees for the vacant place 

 were William H. Powell (Democrat), Charles L. 

 Knapp (Republican), Charles W. Richards (Pro- 

 hibitionist), and Raymond K. Bull (Social-Demo- 

 crat), and Charles L. Knapp was elected. In ad- 

 dition two State Senators were chosen to fill va- 

 cancies caused by deaths in the Thirtieth and 

 Forty-third Senatorial Districts, as well as the 

 election of an entire new Assembly. The success- 

 ful candidates for the State Senators were Wil- 

 liam D. Barnes (Republican) in the Thirtieth Dis- 

 trict, and Merton E. Lewis (Republican) in the 

 Forty-third District. The next Senate, as elected, 

 is composed of 35 Republicans and 15 Democrats, 

 and the membership of the Assembly comprises 

 106 Republicans, 42 Democrats, and 2 Independent 

 Democrats. On joint ballot the parties are repre- 

 sented as follow: 141 Republicans, 67 Democrats, 

 and 2 Independent Democrats. An amendment 

 to section 18 of Article III of the State Constitu- 

 tion, forbidding the Legislature to pass special 

 tax exemption bills, was passed. 



NORTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Nov. 21, 1789; area, 52,250 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 393,751 in 1790; 478,103 in 1800; 555,500 in 

 1810; 638,829 in 1820; 737,987 in 1830; 753,419 in 

 1840; 869,039 in 1850; 992,622 in 1860; 1,071,361 

 in 1870; 1,399,750 in 1880; 1,617,947 in 1890; and 

 1,893,810 in 1900. Capital, Raleigh. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Charles B. Ay cock; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, W. D. Turner; Secretary of 

 State, J. B. Grimes ; Treasurer, B. R. Lacey ; Audi- 

 tor, B. F. Dixon; Attorney-General, R. D. Gil- 

 mer; Superintendent of Education, T. F. Toon; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, S. L. Patterson; 

 Adjutant-General, B. S. Royster; Insurance Com- 

 missioner, James R. Young all Democrats; Cor- 

 poration Commission, Franklin McNeill, Samuel 

 L. Rogers, D. H. Abbott; Commissioner of La- 

 bor and Printing, H. B. Varner; Librarian, M. 

 O. Sherrill; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 David M. Furches, Republican; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Robert M. Douglas (Republican), Walter 

 Clark (Democrat), W. A. Montgomery (Demo- 

 crat), and Charles A. Cook; Clerk, Thomas J. 

 Kenan, Democrat. 



The State officers are elected for terms of 

 four years at the time of presidential elections. 

 The Legislature meets biennially in January of 

 the odd-numbered years. The time of the session 

 is not limited, but legislators are paid for not 

 more than sixty days. 



Census Figures. Of the 347 incorporated 

 places in the State, only 35 had a population in 

 1900 of more than 2,000; of these 23 t have fewer 

 than 5,000 inhabitants; and 6 have 'more than 

 5,000 but fewer than 10,000; 6 have more than 

 10,000, namely, Wilmington, with 20,976; Char- 

 lotte, with 18,091; Asheville, with 14,694; Ral- 

 eigh, with 13,643; Greensboro, with 10,035; and 

 Winston, with 10,008 inhabitants. The urban 

 population of the State is 8 per cent, of the whole. 

 The figures for children of school age are: Whole 

 number, 753,826, of whom 450 are foreign born, 

 263,044 colored, 377,611 males, and 376,215 fe- 

 males; there are 326,202 men of militia age, of 

 whom 1,346 are foreign born and 99,626 colored. 

 The men of voting age number 417,578, of whom 

 2,530 are foreign born and 128,314 colored. 



j rf , aHllrv Nov . 

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Finances, n,, I,,].,,,,, i n 

 -JO, 1000, was .$101,! ,:; .- ,,,, 



ing year wen- .$1 .<)<)-.<;, , ; ,,. ,\^\ tnint . mt . Hiit 

 were $1,085,556.08 ; ih,. i,., . . .. ,. ),..,._ j ; \\m\ f $\n. 



The statement of the spfcia.l -- In ,,| |, M |.|, which 

 is kept separate, is as in!!. ,,,. l',,i!,in-c {<) 



1900, $23,219.50; receipts iron VMM') 't,i 



Dec. 1, 1901, $17,620.10; total, .- 1'. - ./,.<;<, ',| H . 

 bursements, $5,304.55; balance !)<<. l 1 ',io 1 ' .S:;.*i 

 524.05. 



The expenditures of the State Govern mm |. j,, r 

 the various institutions during the y-.n x-,. M . 

 as follow: Dangerous insane, $7,440.44; }i<Hj,it:i| 

 at Raleigh, .$73,356.22; hospital at GfjldsUm, 

 $45,729.79; hospital at Morganton, $112,<;:i:j.!):5; 

 School for the Deaf and Dumb, Morganton, $4S,- 

 718.81; State's prison, $177,805.05; Agricultural 

 Department, $67,354.24; Soldiers' Home, $14,818.- 

 17; Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind 

 $68,011.22; pensions, $113,291; College of Agricul- 

 ture and Mechanic Arts, $54,645.89; University of 

 North Carolina, $31,000; Colored Normal, $18,- 

 250; State Normal, Greensboro, $40,000; Oxford 

 Orphan Asylum, $10,000; Oxford Orphan Asylum 

 (colored), $6,600; sundry expenditures, $795,895.- 

 92; total, $1,685,556.68; balance Dec. 1, 1901, $18,- 

 263.02. 



The State of South Dakota brought suit in 

 November in the United States Supreme Court 

 to recover on bonds of the Western North Caro- 

 lina Railroad Company, which were guaranteed 

 by the State of North Carolina. The bonds were 

 issued before 1870 and have been repudiated. 



Education. The receipts for the public schools 

 this year were $1,119,746.47, while in 1900 they 

 were $1,031,327.94. The sources of income were: 

 State and county poll-tax, $327,404.05; general 

 property tax, $525,257.15; special property, local 

 tax, $15,544.25; special poll, local tax, $404.45; 

 fines, etc., $23,411.82; liquor license, $79,279.62; 

 auctioneers, $23.75; received from State Treasurer, 

 $101,401.80; other sources, $45,983.48. The white 

 schools were in session nearly a week longer and 

 the colored schools a week and a half longer than 

 during the year preceding. The average for the 

 former was 15.56 weeks and for the latter 14.49 

 weeks. This does not include the city schools, 

 which were in session from thirty-two to forty 

 weeks. The second $100,000 of the extra legisla- 

 tive appropriation had not been issued, on ac- 

 count of the low state of .the finances; it is to 

 be distributed to the counties that have not- 

 funds sufficient for four months of school. 



The enrolment in the public shools in 1901 was 

 290,178, an increase over the preceding year of 

 19,731. The average attendance in 1900 was 142,- 

 413; in 1901 it was 172,272. 



The State Normal College received in the sum- 

 mer a gift from G. F. Peabody, of New York, of 

 $10,000, of which $5,000 is to be used in devel- 

 oping an educational park on the college grounds, 

 and the other $5,000 is to become available as 

 soon as a certain sum shall be raised by friends 

 of the institution. The college owns 125 acres of 

 land, about half of which is broken and in foresi 



A practise and observation school building has 

 been erected at a cost of about $15.000. 

 regular annual appropriation is $25.000. 



At the College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts, 23 were graduated in June. In Septemtx 

 315 students were present. The Board of Vis 

 recommended the establishment of professorsh 

 of animal industry and veterinary science 

 of biology, the establishment of the office* of 

 botanist and supervisor of the department of 

 ticulture, and that 100 acres of the college land 



