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ILLINOIS. 



son; Auditor, Charles W. Pavey; Treasurer, 

 Charles Becker ; Attorney-General, George Hunt ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Richard 

 Edwards; Railroad and Warehouse Commis- 

 sioners, J. R. Wheeler, I. N. Phillips, W. L. 

 Crim ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Simeon P. Shope ; Associate Justices, Alfred M. 

 Craig, Benjamin D. Magruder, David J. Baker, 

 John Scholfield, J. W. Wilkin, and J. M. Bailey. 

 Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as determined 

 by the national census of this year compared 

 with similar returns for 1880 : 



* Decrease. 



The population of the city of Chicago for 1890 

 was 1,099,850, an increase of 596,665 in ten years. 



County Debts. The total debt of Illinois 

 counties for 1890 was $11,760,596, a decrease in 

 ten years of $2,635,755. Of this debt all but 

 $292,740 is bonded. Forty-six of the 103 coun- 

 ties of the State are without debt. 



Finances. The State debt is only $23,100, 

 represented by bonds that have ceased to bear 

 interest and are payable on presentation to the 

 Treasurer. There is a large surplus in the 

 treasury, and a moderate rate of State taxation 

 is sufficient to provide revenue for the generous 

 support of the State institutions. For 1890 the 

 rate was 2-25 mills for general State purposes, 

 and 1'35 mill for school purposes. 



Under the wise provision that retained to the 

 State, in consideration of the franchise, and 

 valuable lands granted to the Illinois Central 

 Railroad, an interest to the extent of 7 per cent, 

 of the gross earnings of the road, to be paid 

 annually into the State Treasury, there has been 

 paid for the years from 1855 to 1890, inclusive, 

 $12,365,618. Upon the $40,000,000 of capital 

 stock of the company paid in. there was paid as 

 dividends in the same period $64,782,357, show- 

 ing that an amount slightly exceeding 19 per 

 cent, of the total paid as dividends on such $40,- 

 000,000 of paid in stock has been turned into 

 the State Treasury. For the year ending April 

 30, 1890, the State's 7 per cent, of gross earnings 

 paid amounted to $486,281. The showing for 

 the six months ending Oct. 31, 1890, gives the 

 State as its 7 per cent, of earnings $257,219. 



Legislative Session. Early in June Goy. 

 Fifer issued a call convening the Legislature in 

 extra session on July 23, to legislate on subjects 

 pertaining to the World's Columbian Exposition, 

 the site for which, by a recent act of Congress, 

 had been established at Chicago. One of the 

 results of the session was an act granting the 

 following rights to the Exposition authorities : 

 1. The use and occupation of all lands or right 



