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ing rapidly established with the co-operation of 

 the State School Board. These schools are sup- 

 ported for four months by the State, and for an- 

 other four months by voluntary contributions 

 from the patrons. Such schools are now found 

 in nearly every county, a few counties having 

 ten or twelve. Georgia is one of the few States 

 that have no distinctive normal school. The 

 only instruction for teachers is furnished through 

 occasional teachers' institutes. But the Legis- 

 lature of 1888-'89 has made a beginning by appro- 

 priating $35,000 for a normal and technological 

 school for girls at Milledgeville, the corner stone 

 of which was laid in November, 1890. 



County Debts. The total indebtedness of 

 Georgia counties is $465,060, of which $399,000 

 is bonded and $66,060 floating. There has been 

 an increase since 1880 of $283,270 in the debt. 

 Three fourths of the counties have no debt. 



Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as deter- 

 mined by the national census of 1890, compared 

 with similar returns for 1880 : 



* Decrease. 



Penitentiary. On Oct. 1, 1888, there were 

 1,537 prisoners in the convict camps of the State, 

 1,336 being colored males, 52 colored females, 

 and 149 white males. During the two years en- 

 suing 966 were received from the jails, and 8 es- 

 caped convicts were recaptured, making the total 



