UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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providing for a State School of Minos, making it 

 a misdemeanor to work men more than fight 

 hours a day on public works, forbidding the mak- 

 ing it compulsory on the employees of any firm or 

 corporation to trade at a certain store or patron- 

 ize a designated boarding-house, forbidding the un- 

 authorized wearing of the insignia of the Grand 

 Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, or 

 medals presented to volunteers in the Spanish- 

 American War; requiring street-railway com- 

 panies to vestibule all cars used during the winter 

 months; creating a bureau of statistics to colled 

 and arrange information about the State; provid- 

 ing for a reservoir fund for aiding in the irrigation 

 of arid lands; providing that fire and accident 

 insurance companies must do all business in the 

 State through resident agents; providing for rigid 

 inspection of the coal-mines; forbidding the keep- 

 ing of slot-machines for gambling or exhibiting 

 unchaste pictures; providing for the destruction 

 of ground-squirrels; providing for the establish- 

 ment in cities of the first and second classes of 

 municipal courts superseding police and justice 

 courts; providing for the regulation of irrigation 

 under the supervision of the State engineer; re- 

 quiring fire protection and safety appliances on the 

 hoists in mines; providing for more stringent pro- 

 tection of fish and game; increasing the appro- 

 priation and facilities for the commission to en- 

 courage the growing of silk; providing for a 

 bounty for the destruction of coyotes, lynxes, wild 

 cats, wolves, mountain-lions, and bears; and 

 making the docking of horses' tails a misde- 

 meanor. 



Mormonism. Important changes took place 

 in the Mormon Church. George Q. Cannon, first 

 counselor, for many years a guiding spirit in the 

 Church, died April 12. President Lorenzo Snow, 

 generally considered the ablest president of the 

 Church since the death of Brigham Young, died 

 Oct. 10. A week later Joseph F. Smith, nephew 

 of the founder of the faith, was chosen president, 

 with John R., Winder and Anthon H. Lund as his 

 counselors. The Mormon Church gained many 

 converts in 1901 through its active proselyting, 

 but it lost in political power. The principal 

 reason for its waning prestige is the great influx 

 of non-Mormons, who form the majority in the 

 principal cities. 



Political. A United States Senator was 

 elected to fill a vacancy which existed for two 

 years owing to the failure of the previous Legis- 

 lature to elect. The Republicans had a majority 

 of the Legislature, and they held a caucus Jan. 

 18. The first ballot resulted as follows: W. S. 

 McCormick, 9; A. L. Thomas, 8; Thomas Kearns, 

 8; Arthur Brown, 5; George M. Cannon, 4; 0. J. 

 Salisbury, 1; Reed Smoot, 1; C. E. Allen, 1. Bal- 

 loting was continued four days. Jan. 22 Thomas 

 Kearns received a majority in the caucus, and the 

 next day he was elected by a solid Republican 

 vote, the Democrats voting for A. W. McCune. 



VERMONT, a New England State, admitted 

 to the Union March 4, 1791; area, 9,565 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census, was 154,465 in 1800; 217,895 in 1810; 

 235,966 in 1820; 280,652 in 1830; 281,948 in 1840; 

 314,120 in 1850; 315,098 in 1860; 350,551 in 1870; 

 332,286 in 1880; 332,422 in 1890; and 343,641 in 

 1900. Capital, Montpelier. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, William W. Stickney; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Martin F. Allen; Secretary 

 of State, Fred. A. Howland; Treasurer, John L. 

 Bacon; Auditor, Orion M. Barber; Adjutant- 

 General, William H. Gilmore; Superintendent of 

 Education, W. E. Ranger all Republicans; Su- 



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 sistant .Ju-ii'-- 

 Ilowell, .folni i ; 

 Tyler, and \V. I'. 

 - all Republic-iiii-. 



State ollieer.-, ;uc . 

 her of the even-minn 

 meets biennially in < >i-t< A>> 

 There are 30 Senators ;n 



The town system of represent ;i I . M ' Mi.nri* 



tained. 



Population. According to w.\, 

 and color, the population is divided ..- |.,| ].,>./ 

 Males, 175,138; females, 16H,503; niiti\<- 1,.,,-n 

 298,894; foreign born, 44,747; whites, :;iJ,:;i.' 

 negroes, including all persons of negro de^.-Mi. 

 826; Chinese, 30; Indians, including those taxe.l 

 and not taxed, 5. According to school and voting 

 age, the division is as follows: Total of s<-h<x>l 

 age, five to twenty years, 98,614, including 98,357 

 whites and 255 negroes. Total of voting age, 

 108,356, including 87,465 native born, 20,801 for- 

 eign born, 108,027 whites, 289 negroes, and 8,544 

 illiterates. The average density of population to 

 the square mile is 37.6. 



Finances. The Auditor of Accounts has is- 

 sued a statement showing the revenue and dis- 

 bursements of the State of Vermont for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1901. 



The receipts were: Cash on hand and in banks, 

 $117,161.20; Agricultural College fund, $8.130; 

 Bennington Battle Monument fund, $32.17: from 

 savings-banks and trust companies, salary and 

 expenses of Inspector of Finance, $1,555.53; com- 

 mercial fertilizer companies, license fees, $900; 

 Insurance Commissioners, fees collected of foreign 

 companies, $8,372.25. United States Government 

 Aid to Soldiers' Home, $3,692.67 ; endowment of 

 Agricultural College, $25,000; account reimburse- 

 ment for expenses incurred in war with Spain, 

 $2,248.85. Judges of probate, fees, $26,714.53; 

 county clerks, judgments, and balances, $25,026.- 

 18; Burlington city court, fines and costs, $3,224.- 

 73; State Prison, $21,127.41: Industrial School, 

 $900; House of Correction, $15,233.58; State Hoa- 

 pital for Insane, $5,151.95; peddlers' licenses, 

 $375; collateral inheritance taxes, $50,758.14; li- 

 cense taxes of 1901 and arrears of previous years, 

 $12,385; corporation taxes, $453,543.42: charter 

 fees, $1,295; Secretary of State, charter fees, $2,- 

 800. Towns balance of State tax of 1890, $4.412.- 

 79; balance of State school tax of 1900, $2,065.82; 

 balance of State highway tax of 1000, $2,065.82; 

 State school tax of 1901, $88,621.81 ; United States 

 deposit money, for redistribution on census of 

 1900, $42,055.27; excess profit on liquor agency 

 sales, year ending February, 1901, $3,012.77; ac- 

 count highways and bridges, $537.50. Temporary 

 loans, act of 1898, $110,000; temporary loans, act 

 of 1900, $150.000; interest on bank balances, etc., 

 $788.72; sundries, $6,160.08; total, $1.283.070. 



The disbursements were: University of Ver- 

 mont and State Agricultural College, United 

 States endowment of agricultural colleges, $ 

 000; Bennington Battle Monument fund, $32 

 interest, $24,727.37: temporary loans, act of 1' 

 $110,000; temporary loans, act of 1000. &W 

 arrears of State pay, act of 1861, 70 cents: extra 

 State pay, act of* 1808, $352.36: amount-* ad- 

 vanced to soldiers, $530.84 ; towns di*tri but it 

 State school tax of 1000, $87.805.89: distribution 

 of State highway tax of 1000. $88.305.45: re.li 

 tribution of United States deposit money 

 sus of 1900. $49,891.25: debentures of General 

 Assembly, session of 1900. $54.805.40: Audil 

 orders, $690,958.64; cash on hand nnd in banks 

 June 30, 1901, $101,559.93: total, $1,283,970. 



