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capital $32,500; 272 flour and meal mills, 

 capital $477,151. 



The whole number of children attending 

 school during the year was 62,572, of whom 

 30,138 were white males, 26,650 white fe- 

 males, 2,930 colored males, and 2,854 colored 

 females. 



The number of persons, 10 years old and 

 upward, who cannot read, is 111,799; who 

 cannot write, 133,339, of whom 296 are foreign. 

 Of those who cannot write, 13,610 are white 

 males, 21,770 white females, 23,681 colored 

 males, and 22,689 colored females, above 21. 



The deaths during the year were 6,119, of 

 which 2,096 were from general diseases; 639 

 from affections of the nervous, 1,476 of the 

 respiratory, and 602 of the digestive system. 



The assessed value of real estate is $53,- 

 102,304; of personal estate, $31,426,539 ; true 

 valuation of real and personal estate, $156,- 

 394,691 ; total taxation, not national, $2,866,- 

 890; public debt, county, town, city, etc., 

 $691,595. 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. In 

 accordance with the provisions of the act of 

 Congress of July 15, 1870, the army of the 

 United States has been reduced to a peace-foot- 

 ing, and now numbers only 30,000 men. The 

 following is the present table of organization : 



Enlisted men of engineers 301 



Enlisted men of ordnance 475 



Ordnance servants at posts 200 



Military Academy band 24 



Sixty enlisted men per company for 55 companies 



artillery 3,300 



Eighty four enlisted men per battery for 5 batteries 



light artillery 420 



Eighty-four enlisted men per company for 120 com- 

 panies cavalry 1 



Sixty enlisted men per company for 250 companies 



infantry 15,000 



Non-commissioned staff of regiments 200 



Total. 



The retired list is limited to 300 officers. At 

 the Military Academy at West Point there are 

 220 cadets. 



The expense of supporting the military es- 

 tablishment during the year ending June 30, 

 1871, was about $40,000,000, including $3,- 

 945,000 expended upon river and harbor im- 

 provements. This shows a reduction from the 

 cost of the army for the preceding year of 

 $17,655,675.40. For the fiscal year 1871-'72, 

 $36,530,776 have been appropriated, of which 

 $4,407,500 is to be devoted to river and harbor 

 improvements, and the estimated expense for 

 1872-'73 is $32,415,472. Sales of clothing 

 belonging to the army yielded the sum of 

 $1,875,728.74, from June 30, 1870, to December 

 1, 1871, and during the last fiscal year small 

 arms and ordnance stores were sold to the 

 amount of $10,000,000. 



The several national cemeteries cover an 

 area of 1,800 acres, acquired at a cost of 

 $170,000. They now contain 317,950 graves, 

 2,255 of which were added during the year. 

 There is a cemetery owned by the United States 

 near the city of Mexico, which has been put 

 in order during the year, the enclosure having 



previously become somewhat dilapidated. It is 

 proposed that this ground be hereafter classed 

 with the other national cemeteries and cared 

 for in the same way. 



The last surviving pensioner of the Govern- 

 ment who served in the Revolutionary War 

 has passed away, but there are still 634 

 widows of Revolutionary soldiers who receive 

 pensions. There have been 3,078 applications 

 for bounty-land during the year, of which 711 

 were rejected. The numbers of warrants for 

 bounty-land issued for 11 years are as follows: 

 In 1861, 5,341; 1862, 1,636; 1863, 602; 1864, 

 1,812; 1865, 1,161; 1866, 406; 1867, 954; 

 1868, 1,077; 1869, 1,650; 1870, 1,758; 1871, 

 2,598. 



The following statement shows the nature 

 of the injuries received by those \v!:<> are at 

 present invalid pensioners : 



Injury to the head 5,155 



do. " neck . 680 



do. " chest 3,730 



do. " abdomen 5,735 



do. u spine 871 



do. " shoulder 3,383 



do. " arm 11,953 



do. " hand.... 8,173 



do. " thigh 8,104 



do. " leg 10,918 



do. " foot 1,962 



For single wounds 63,721 



For two or more wounds 4,022 



The proportion of wounds of the head to the 



whole number is as 1 to 13.14 



Neck 1 to 99.62 



Chest 1 to 18.17 



Abdomen 1 to 11.81 



Spine 1 to 77.77 



Shoulder 1 to 20,02 



Arm Ito 5.67 



Hand Ito 8.29 



Thigh Ito 8.35 



Leg Ito 6.21 



Foot Ito 34.53 



The whole number of amputations is to the 

 number of injuries as 1 to 10.16. 



The proportion of amputations of one hand 



is as Ito 58.17 



The proportion of amputations of both hands 1 to 1745.20 



The proportion of amputations of one arm. . 1 to 2.05 



The proportion of amputations of both arms 1 to 272.69 



The proportion of amputations of one leg. . . 1 to 2.13 



The proportion of amputations of both legs. Ito 242.39 



The proportion of amputations of one foot. . 1 to 73.94 



The proportion of amputations of both feet. Ito 793.28 



The proportion of amputations of leg and arm 1 to 545.37 



Those pensioned for disabilities caused by 

 disease are classified as follows : 



The proportion of diseases of the brain and 



nerves to the whole number is as 1 to 10.32 



Digestive system 1 to 4.44 



Respiratory system 1 to 6.75 



(Senito-nrinary system 1 to 33.37 



Circulatory system 1 to 11.20 



Fibrous, bony, and muscular system Ito 7.04 



Absorbent and excretory system 1 to 6.26 



From miscellaneous causes 1 to 21.40 



Under the head of chronic rheumatism 1,385 

 cases are shown. These constitute about 9 per 

 cent, of all the disabilities. The number of 

 cases of phthisis is 1,045, or about 6 per cent, of 

 all. These four disabilities, chronic diarrhoea, 

 disease of eye, chronic rheumatism, and phthisis, 

 aggregate 7,457 cases, or about 50 per cent, of 

 the entire number of disabilities. The whole 

 number of pensioners paid on account of 



