UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature assem- 

 bled Jan. 9, and adjourned Feb. 22. The follow- 

 ing appropriations 'were made: West Virginia 

 Historical and Antiquarian Society, $1,200; <>vn- 

 eral normal fund, $44,900; Marshall College, $7,- 

 876.60; West Liberty Normal School, $3,800; 

 Fairmont Normal School, $4,261.68; Concord Nor- 

 mal School, $3,800; Glenville Normal School, $3,- 

 400; Shepardstown Normal School, $2,700; Deaf 

 and Dumb Asylum, $56,982; Montgomery School, 

 $5,700; Keyser School, $7,500; colored institute 

 at Kanawha, $34,793.12; colored institute at 

 Bluefield, $7,710; Reform School at Pruritytown, 



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Superintendent <>! i 



Railroad Comm: i 



since Commission* i 



General, C. R. lioanl 



missioner, 11. ( '. A<l 



lluiford Krickson; !',.inL K ..,,..,;,, 



Health Commissioner, K M. 



Game Warden, .1. T. KHai-M/n ; '! 



ers, Norman S. Gilson, 



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erson; Forest Warden, C. K. M,,,!, v - ( i, 

 tice of the Supreme Court, J. I; ( ; ,,',,,,| ,- 



$53,039; Home for Girls, $16,950; insane^sylum ^ U &%*C^%^ 



at Weston, $168,550; insane asylum at Spencer, Roujet D. Marshal- Clerk Clan 



$65,250; miners' hospitals, $5,000; Asylum for In- With the exceptions 'me < one 1 a 



curables, $54,905 and $55,000 (1902); capital an- licans 

 nex, $200,000. 



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The following were among the bills passed: 



State officers are elected for terms of two year* 

 -November of the even-numbered year*. The 



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To increase the power of the State Humane Legislature meets biennially in January of the 



Society. 



Affording protection of union labels and trade- 

 marks. 



Providing for the protection of street-car em- 

 ployees. 



odd-numbered years. It consists of 33 Senator* 

 and 100 Representatives. 



Population. The population in 1900 com- 

 prised 1,067,562 males and 1.001,480 females. 



The population of native birth was 1,553071- of 

 lo permit boards of education and school trus- foreign birth, 515,971; total white population, 

 tees to display the United States flag over every 2,057,911; native whites, 1,542,206 of whom 585- 

 school-buildinsr in the State. ona w^ i^ f *;,. -* o,o _* e. 



school-building in the State. 



Providing for the support of wives and children. 



To punish cruelty to children. 



To establish a free public employment bureau. 



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903 were born of native and 956,303 of fore _ 

 parents; foreign whites, 515,705; colored popula- 

 tion, 11,131, comprising 2,542 negroes, 212 Chi- 



-, A nese, 5 Japanese, and 6,715 Indians. Of the na- 



Requiring assessors to gather agricultural sta- tive-born population 784,937 were males and 768,- 



134 were females; of the foreign-born. 282,625 

 were males and 233,346 were females; of the total 

 white population, 1,061,606 were males and 996,- 



tistics. 



Appropriating $3,500 for the erection of a monu- 

 ment to the memory of Levi Morgan. 



To abolish the preparatory school at Morgan- 305 were females; of the native white 



town, and appropriate $20,000 to create a similar 

 institute at Keyser. 



Appropriating $2,500 for a bronze and silver 

 coat of arms for the cruiser West Virginia. 



Appropriating $5,000 for a statue of Francis H. 

 Pierpont in Statuary Hall, Washington. 

 Annual Cyclopaedia for 1899, page 631.) 



Providing for the submission of 4 amendments 

 to the Constitution of the State. The first re- 

 lates to the election and term of office of State 

 officers; the second, to the salary of State offi- 

 cers; the third, to the Supreme Court, as to num- 

 ber of judges, election, term of office, and salary; 

 the fourth, to the school fund. 



For the provision of a registration amendment. 



779,213 were males and 762,993 were 



the foreign white populati 

 and 233,312 were females; 



population, 

 females; of 



ation 282,393 were males 



of the colored popula- 



tion, 5,956 were males and 5,175 were females, the 

 negroes comprising 1,418 males and 1,124 females, 

 (See the Chinese and Japanese consisting only of males, 

 and the Indians numbering 4,321 males* and 4.051 

 females. The aggregate number of persons of 

 school age, or between five and twenty years, was 

 730,685, of whom 682,630 were native born and 

 48,055 of foreign origin, 726,950 were white and 

 3,735 were colored. There were between those 

 ages 366,873 males, of whom 342,331 were native 

 and 24,542 foreign born, 365,053 white and 1,820 

 colored; and 363.812 females, of whom 34* > 



A joint resolution was adopted authorizing the were native and 23,513 foreign born, 361.897 white 



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Governor to appoint a commission to draft a 

 measure to revise the tax assessment, the revenue 

 laws, the laws in relation to disbursement of rev- 



and 1,915 colored. The number of males of militia 

 age was 425,825, of whom 290,891 were native 

 born, 134,934 were foreign born, 423.339 were 



enue, and the laws in relation to incorporation white, and 2,486 were colored. The total number 

 of cities, towns, and villages. The commission of males of voting age was 570,715. of whom 313,- 

 report from 1890 to 1900 an increase of $11,047,- 188 were native, 257.527 were foreign born, 567.213 

 902 in assessments, a gain of 22.67 per cent. The were white, and 3,502 were colored. Of the native- 

 question of taxing coal, oil, and gas property is born males of voting age 2.3 per cent., of the 

 under consideration. The commission say: "The foreign-born 9.3 per cent., of native whites born 

 large increase of the receipts of the State for 1901 of native parents 1.5 per cent., of native whites 

 ($240,000 over 1900) arises principally from the born of foreign parents 2.1 per cent., of colored 

 operation of the new corporation law. There was 42.2 per cent, were illiterate, and of the total male 

 also an increase of $88,000 in receipts from license population of voting age 5.5 per cent. Of the for- 

 taxes, and $32,000 from the redemption of lands, eign born 47 per cent, were naturalized and 



WISCONSIN, a Western State, admitted to per cent, had their first papers. Of the naturnliz 



the Union May 29, 1848; area, 56,040 square miles, citizens 7.3 per cent., of those who had t 



The population, according to each decennial cen- their first naturalization papers 10.7 per e 



sus since admission, was 305,391 in 1850; 775,881 of those returned as aliens 17.2 per cent 



in 1860; 1,054,670 in 1870; 1,315,497 in 1880; able to read. The number of death- i 



1,688,880 in 1890; and 2,069,042 in 1900. Capital, during 1900 was 24,928, of which i: 



Madison. among males and 11.113 among 



Government. The following were the State among whites and 181 amom 



officers in 1901: Governor, Robert M. La Follette; among native and 8.974 



Lieutenant-Governor, Jesse Stone; Secretary of 

 State, William H. Froehlich; Treasurer, James O. 



Production. Wisconsin in iwo r.ii-f 

 240 bushels of corn, of the value of $16,350,589, 



