UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 



in January, 1900, $2,984,003.50; amount of wages 

 paid in the year, $051,297.23. Capital invested, 

 $2,984,003.50 an increase of $580,203.50, com- 

 pared with the previous year. The number of 

 employees in all branches was 2,804, of which 

 number 1,214 were females. 



One plant reported a change of wages, which 

 was an advance of 10 per cent. 



Statistics are presented from 13 woolen-mills. 

 The total value of goods manufactured in the 

 year was $387,404.75. For the year previous (nine 

 reporting) the amount was $287,700. Value of 

 manufactured goods on hand January, 1900, $50,- 

 855.24; value of stock or material used in the 

 year, $224,414.72; value of supplies used, $9,221.- 

 24; value of stock or material on hand Jan. 1, 

 1899, $73,900.15; capital invested, $208,508.39; 

 amount paid in wages, $57,952.54. 



Eight reports received from knitting-mills show 

 the amount of wages paid during the year, $291,- 

 491.88; capital invested, $200,070; value of all 

 stock and material used, $307,532.71; value of all 

 goods manufactured, $879,031.05. The reports, al- 

 most without exception, say the condition of the 

 knitting industry is good, but there is complaint 

 of the scarcity of labor in Virginia. 



The value of cigars and cigarettes manufactured 

 in the year was $4,405,700.80. The value of manu- 

 factured goods on hand, January, 1900, $52,338.- 

 35; value of all stock or material used in 1899 was 

 $2,508,040.94. The value of supplies used in 1899 

 was $24,171.80; value of stock and material on 

 hand Jan. 1, 1900, $188,533.21; amount paid in 

 wages, $483.795.07. Amount of capital invested, 

 $400,302.31. 



Reports from iron foundries and machine shops 

 (27 in number) showed the value of all goods 

 manufactured in 1899 to have been $5,570,484.70; 

 value of goods on hand January, 1900, $4,185,- 

 938.29; value of stock or material used, $375,- 

 820.77; amount paid in wages, 1899, $3,980,070.10; 

 capital invested, $7,502,075.20. 



The value of all goods manufactured by brewers 

 in 1899 was $702,434.50, an increase of $152,503.42 

 over the previous year, Ayhen the same establish- 

 ments reported. Value of manufactured goods on 

 hand January, 1900, $95,035.55; value of all stock 

 or material used, $103,108.30; value of stock or 

 material on hand January, 1900, $23,119.04; 

 amount paid in wages, $100,070.35; capital in- 

 vested, $830,000. 



Oyster-Fisheries. The last Legislature appro- 

 priated $5,000 to defray the expenses of resurvey- 

 ing the oyster-grounds. This work has been com- 

 pleted in York, Warwick, and Isle of Wight 

 Counties, and some of the work has been done in 

 several other counties. Of the amount appropri- 

 ated, $3,952 was expended up to Oct. 1. 



The gain over 1900 from the planting ground 

 was $8,192.22, while the increase from tonging 

 was $1,737.02, and from dredging, fish-nets, etc., 

 there was a small decrease. In the three and a 

 half years of the operation of the law the net 

 revenue to the State to Oct. 1, 1901, was $103,- 

 272.72. 



Political. On Jan. 23 the Legislature was con- 

 vened in extra session to arrange for the conven- 

 tion to formulate a new Constitution. This con- 

 vention began its work on June 12. Hon. John 

 Goode was made permanent chairman. On Oct. 

 23 a bill of rights, being Articles I, II, and III of 

 the new Constitution, was agreed to. The follow- 

 ing are its more important passages: 



"ARTICLE I. 1. That all men are by nature 

 equally free and independent, and have certain 

 inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a 

 state of society, they can not, by any compact, 



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 security of the people, nation, .,i 

 all the various modes and form- i 

 that is best which is capable of prodn.-i 

 greatest degree of happiness and safety. .u,-l in 

 most effectually secured against the dun^r of 

 maladministration; and that, when any govern- 

 ment shall be found inadequate or contrary !> 

 -these purposes, a majority of the community hath 

 an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right 

 to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner a* 

 shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. 



"4. That no man, or set of men, are entitled 

 to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges 

 from the community, but in consideration of pub- 

 lic services, which, not being descendible, neither 

 ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or 

 judge to be hereditary. 



" 5. That the legislative, executive, and judicial 

 departments of the State should be separate and 

 distinct; and that the members thereof may be 

 restrained from oppression, by feeling and partici- 

 pating in the burdens .of the people, they should, 

 at fixed periods, be reduced to a private sta- 

 tion. 



" 0. That all elections ought to be free, and that 

 all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent 

 common interests with, and attachments to, the 

 community, have the right of suffrage, and can 

 not be taxed, or deprived of, or damaged in, their 

 property, for public uses, without their own con- 

 sent, or that of their representatives. 



" 10. That general warrants, whereby an officer 

 or messenger may be commanded to search sus- 

 pected places without evidence of a fact com- 

 mitted, or to seize any person or persons not 

 named, or whose offense is not particularly de- 

 scribed and supported by evidence are grievous 

 and oppressive, and ought not to be granted. 



"11. No person shall be deprived of his prop- 

 erty without due process of law. In controversies 

 respecting property, and in suits between man 

 and man, a trial by jury is preferable to any 

 other, and ought to be held sacred ; but the Gen- 

 eral Assembly may, by law, in such cases, pre- 

 scribe any number less than twelve, but not less 

 than seven, to constitute a jury for the trial of 

 all civil cases not now triable before a justice of 

 the peace, and any number not less than five for 

 the trial of civil cases now triable by a justice of 

 the peace. 



" 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the 

 great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be re- 

 strained but by despotic governments, and any 

 citizen may speak, write, and publish his senti- 

 ments on all subjects, being responsible for t 

 abuse of that liberty. 



"17. That neither slavery nor involui 

 servitude, except as lawful imprisonment 

 constitute such, shall exist within thi* 



" 18. The rights enumerated in t 

 rights shall not be construed to limit oil. 

 of the people not therein expressed. 



"ART. II. The Constitution of 

 States, and the laws made in pursii 

 and all treaties made, or which s 

 under the authority of the United 

 the supreme law of the land. 



