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Allowing foreign manufacturing corporations to 

 hold property and do business in the State. 



To prohibit the loading and unloading of steamship 

 and steamboat cargoes on Sunday. 



To cancel the indebtedness of Emory and Henry 

 College to the State, and requiring the transfer to the 

 latter of certain college property. 



To prohibit the employment in factories of females 

 and children under fourteen years more than ten 

 hours in any day. 



Convention of Colored Men. A conven- 

 tion of the colored people of the State was called 

 to meet at Richmond on April 15, at which about 

 75 delegates were present. The condition and 

 needs of the colored race were discussed during 

 a session of two days, and the following among 

 other resolutions were adopted : 



We recognize that the future prosperity of our race 

 depends upon the moral and intellectual purity of our 

 social life ; and as much of the injustice of which we 

 now complain is but the natural result of the con- 

 tempt in which we are held by reason of our short- 

 comings in this direction, we Would press upon the 

 race the necessity of complete reform in the social im- 

 purities practiced by many and tacitly countenanced 

 by all. 



We regard the defeat of the Blair educational bill 



by the United States Senate as a blow at popular edu- 

 cation in the South. 



We express our hearty dissent and unqualified dis- 

 approval of the acts of the present Legislature of Vir- 

 ginia in their efforts to cripple the already public pro- 

 visions for negro education in this Commonwealth, as 

 is evidenced by their election to the office of Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction a man who has openly 

 declared negro education to be a failure, and who con- 

 tends that the negroes, though the laborers, are not 

 real tax payers of the Commonwealth. 



We condemn the Governor of this Commonwealth, 

 a professed believer in the Christian faith, a pre- 

 tended humanitarian, a product of the black belt, a 

 putative friend of the negro, yet who signs a bill re- 

 ducing the appropriation to the colored normal school, 

 and also approves the measure removing colored men 

 as trustees of the said school, in all of which acts the 

 Governor is at violence with his former professed 

 friendship for the negro. 



The convention appointed a State executive 

 committee, which was empowered to appoint 

 committees for each congressional district. 



Political. There was no election for State 

 officers during the year. In November ten Demo- 

 cratic members of Congress were elected. There 

 was no Republican opposition in six of the dis- 

 tricts. 



WASHINGTON, a Pacific coast State, admit- 

 ted to the Union Nov. 11, 1889; area, 69,180 

 square miles ; population according to the cen- 

 sus of 1890, 349,390. Capital, Oiympia. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Elisha P. Fer- 

 ry, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles 

 Fl. Laughton ; Secretary of State, Allen Weir; 

 Treasurer, A. A. Lindsley ; Auditor, T. M. Reed ; 

 Attorney-General, W. C. Jones ; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, R. B. Bryan ; Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands, W. T. Forrest ; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, T. J. Anders ; As- 

 sociate Justices, Elmore Scott, R, 0. Dunbar, T. 

 L. Stiles, J. P. Hoyt. 



Finances. The receipts of the State treas- 

 ury from Nov. 18, 1889 (the date on which the 

 State government was inaugurated) to Oct. 31, 

 1890, aggregated $663,667.01; the disbursements 

 for the same period were $627,928.82, and there 

 remained a balance of $35,738.19. The receipts 

 of the general fund were $607,419.58, and the 

 disbursements $603,274.92, leaving a balance of 

 $4,144.66. A bonded debt was created this year 

 pursuant to an act of the Legislature passed in 

 February. Bonds to the amount of $300,000 

 were issued, and the proceeds were used to retire 

 the Territorial debt assumed by the State. In 

 addition to this debt there was outstanding on 

 Oct. 31 the following floating indebtedness : Gen- 

 eral fund warrants unpaid $234,658.31, interest 

 on the same (estimated) $5,076.60 ; military fund 

 warrants unpaid $34,028.25, interest on the same 

 (estimated) $1,243.08; the total floating indebt- 

 edness $275.006.24. The liabilities of the State, 

 bonded and floating, on Oct. 81, therefore amount- 

 ed to $575,006.24. The rate of State taxation 

 for 1890 was 3 mills on the dollar. 



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. 



Comity Debts. The total debt of Washing- 

 ton counties for 1890 was $1,170,637, an increase 

 of $966.253 in ten years. The bonded debt was 

 $451,000, and the floating debt $719,637. 



Legislative Sessions. The first session of 

 the State Legislature, which began in November, 



