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18. The localities along tlie line of a railroad may tax-payers cannot complain, is, to allow the locali- 



' , if they ties to be taxed, the privilege of saying how much 



be taxed to aid its construction and operation 

 choose to take stock therein and issue bonds there- 

 to, and a fair rule of apportionment, of which the 



the benefit of the improvements is worth to them, 

 and for what amount they are willing to be taxed. 



CENSUS OF 1870. 



Included in the census are 914 Indians. The 

 tribal Indians are officially estimated at 8,900. 

 The true value of property was $188,892,014. 

 The public debt, county, town, city, etc., 

 amounted to $4,848,976. The aggregate value 

 of farm-products, including betterments and 

 additions to stoqk, was $27,630,651; 335,205 

 pounds of wool were raised; 24,340 persons, 

 10 years old and over, cannot write, of whom 



12,391 are males, and 11,949 are females. Of 

 those 21 years old and over who cannot write, 

 5,994 are white males. 



Five independent companies of State militia 

 were organized and armed during the year for 

 the protection of the frontier against incursions 

 of hostile Indians. But no necessity arose 

 for calling them into actual service, as General 

 John Pope, commanding the Department of 



