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NORTH CAROLINA. 



Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as deter- 

 mined by the national census of 1890, compared 

 with the population for 1880 : 



* Decrease. 



Finances. The time within which holders of 

 State bonds other than railroad-construction 

 bonds would be permitted to avail themselves 

 of the provisions of the Funding act, so-called, 

 expired on July 1. Up to that time, all except 

 $1,576,000 of old bonds had been surrendered 

 and exchanged for the new issue authorized by 

 the act. Including these new bonds, the total 

 recognized State debt amounted, on July 1, to 

 $5,939,131, of which $3,219,100 bear 4 per cent, 

 interest and $2,720.000 bear 6 per cent, interest. 

 The interest on the 6-per-cent. bonds, now recog- 

 nized as valid, is more than met by the income 

 that the State receives from the lease of the 

 North Carolina Railroad. The receipts of the 

 treasury for the fiscal year 1890 were $976,761.31, 

 the disbursements, $1,183,303.76. The balance 

 at the close of the year was $34,408.97. 



County Debts. The total debt of North 

 Carolina counties is $1.521.086, a decrease of 

 $3,568 in ten years. Of this total all except 

 $201,220 is a bonded debt. One third of the 

 counties have no debt. 



Education. The annual report of the State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1890 

 presents the following figures : Children of school 

 age, 588,688, of whom about 372,000 were white 

 and about 216,000 colored ; number enrolled in 

 the public schools, white 205,844, colored 116,- 

 689, total 322,533; average attendance, white 

 134,000, colored 69,000, total 203,000: number 

 of school districts for white pupils 4,893, for 

 colored pupils 2,289, total 7,182; number of 

 schools for white pupils 4,508, for colored 

 pupils 2,327, total 6,835. The average school 

 year was sixty days, being three days less than 

 in 1888, and the total amount expended for 

 schools during the year was $718,225. The 

 Superintendent remarks that it is idle to expect 

 satisfactory schools with school terms of sixty 

 days and an expenditure of only $1.22 for each 

 child of school a,ge. 



The State Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege, which was opened in 1889, had 73 pupils on 

 its rolls for that year. During 1890 the number 

 in attendance was 85, nearly three fourths of 

 whom were the sons of farmers. The property 

 of the institution is valued at $55,000. As the 

 State does not provide a similar institution for 

 colored pupils, it can not obtain the annual ap- 

 propriation authorized by Congress in aid of 

 agricultural colleges. 



Charities. At the State Insane Asylum, at 

 Raleigh, the number of patients on Nov. 30, 1888, 

 was 292. During the two years following 168 

 patients were admitted and 166 discharged, leav- 

 ing 294 patients on Nov. 30, 1890. Forty-three 



