

TENNESSEE. 





applicable to all counties of 70,000 inhabitants 

 or over, and to all cities, towns, and civil districts 

 having 2,500 inhabitants or over, according to 

 any Federal census. Ah act was also passed, in 

 conformity with the provisions of the State Con- 

 stitution, requiring the payment of a poll tax 

 for the preceding year as a prerequisite for vot- 

 ing. Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To enable the city of Chattanooga to issue bonds 

 for public improvements on streets and sewers, and 

 to create a board ot public works for that city. 



Enlarging the corporate limits of the city of Nash- 

 ville (several acts). 



To abolish James County, and to restore the terri- 

 tory embraced therein to the counties of Bradley and 

 Hamilton, to which it formerlv belonged 



Empowering the city of Chattanooga to subscribe 

 for $109,000 of the capital stock of the Chattanooga 

 Rome, and Columbus Kailroad. 



Pursuant to a joint resolution passed March 

 13, final adjournment of the session was reached 

 at noon on March 15, but the members were im- 

 mediately called together for a second special 

 session by a proclamation of the Governor. The 

 only business that he proposed was to extend the 

 corporate limits of the taxing district of Shelby 

 County. Such an act was passed on March 18, 

 and both Houses adjourned. 



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. 



Education. The following public-school sta- 

 tistics, covering the school year ending June 30, 

 1889, are reported by the State Superintendent : 

 Children of school age (between six and twi-nty- 

 one years), white males 257,879, white females 

 244,751, colored males 85,019, colored females 

 84,455, total 671,604; pupils enrolled, 404,307; 

 average daily attendance, 266,454 ; average length 

 of school year in days, 85 ; teachers employed, 

 7,561; average monthly wages; $30.40; schools 

 white 5,377, colored 1,496, total 6,873 ; school- 

 houses, 5,701 ; erected during the year, 258. The 

 balance of school money on hand July 1, 1888, 

 was $488,539.28. There were received during t In- 

 year from the State $139,240.31 : from the coun- 

 ties, $1,247,386.77; from all other sources, $131,- 

 549.28, making the total receipts $2,006,715.1; I. 

 The total expenditures, including $ 1, 059,44 (.." 7 

 for salaries of teachers and $89,613.06 for build- 

 ings and repairs, amounted to $1,295.279.85, 

 leaving a balance on June 30, 1889, of $711,- 

 435.79. During the same year 1,125 private 

 schools reported 42,957 pupils and an average 

 attendance of 27,374. with 1,492 teachers. 



Penitentiary. On Dec. 1 there were 1,468 

 prisoners in the State Penitentiary, of whom 

 314 were in the main prison at Nashville, 375 

 at Tracy City, 306 at In man, 102 at Morrow's 

 Farm, 1*63 at Oliver Springs, 72 at Etna, and 



