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MINNESOTA. 



Congress was not asked for anything more than 

 a perpetual charter and the permission to erect 

 the building on one of the public reservations, 

 and to have the right to receive one copy of each 

 of the books sent by publishers to the congres- 

 sional library. 



MINNESOTA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 11, 1858; area, 83,365 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 172,023 in 

 1860 ; 439,706 in 1870 ; 780,773 in 1880 ; and 1,- 

 301,826 in 1890. Capital, St. Paul. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, William R. 

 Merriam, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, Al- 

 bert E. Rice ; Secretary of State, Hans Mattson ; 

 Auditor, W. W. Braden ; Treasurer, Joseph Bob- 

 leter ; Attorney-General, Moses E. Clapp ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, D. L. Kiehle ; 

 Insurance Commissioner, C, P. Bailey ; Railroad 

 and Warehouse Commissioners, John P. Will- 

 iams, John L. Gibbs, George L. Becker; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, James Gilfillan; 

 Associate Justices, Loren W. Collins, William 

 Mitchell, Daniel A. Dickenson, and Charles E. 

 Vanderburgh. 



Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as ascer- 

 tained by the census of this year, compared with 

 similar figures for 1880 : 



* Decrease. 



Finances. For the two years ending July 31, 

 1890, the summary of receipts and disbursements 

 at the State Treasury was as follows : Balance in 

 all funds, Aug. 1, 1888, $1.342,362.67; total re- 

 ceipts for the year ensuing, $3,296,287.27 ; total 

 disbursements, $3,532,507.42; balance in all 

 funds, July 31, 1889, $1,106,142.52; total re- 

 ceipts for the year beginning Aug. 1, 1889, $3,- 

 940,064.02; total disbursements, $3,407,983.45; 

 balance in all funds, July 31, 1890, $1,638,223.09. 

 The receipts and disbursements of the revenue 

 fund were as follow : Balance on Aug. 1, 1888, 

 $139,990.72; receipts for the year ensuing, $1,- 

 939,668.61 ; disbursements, $2,064,127.16 ; bal- 

 ance on July 31, 1889, $15,532.17; receipts for 

 the year beginning Aug. 1, 1889, $2,188,156.80; 

 disbursements, $1,832,966.81; balance on July 

 31, 1890, $370,722.16. Included in the revenue- 

 fund receipts for the year ending July 31, 1889, 

 were $794,663 from State taxes, $685,433.02 

 from taxes on railroads, $102,981.61 from in- 

 surance taxes, $250,000 from sale of State bonds, 

 and $18,948.59 from interest on deposits. For 

 the year ending July 31, 1890, the revenue-fund 

 receipts from State faxes were $880,805.79 ; from 

 taxes on railroads, $702,367.73; from insurance 

 taxes, $107,726.57; from sale of State bonds, 

 $150,000; from fees for new incorporations, 

 $43,554. The disbursements for the year ending 

 July 31, 1889, from the same fund, included 

 $149,777.53 for legislative expenses; $117,464.36 

 for executive expenses ; $120.883.64 for judicial 

 expenses ; $98,660.05 for seed-grain relief bonds ; 

 $73,537.50 for interest on railroad adjustment 

 bonds; $150,495.44 for support first insane 

 hospital; $133,166.66 for support second insane 

 hospital; $87,244.42 for State Reformatory; 

 $81,939.84 for State-Prison support; $87,578.13 

 for Institute for Defectives ; $38,992.17 for sup- 

 port of Reform School ; $24,996.13 for Soldiers' 

 Home support; $36,153.77 for State public- 



