540 



NEBRASKA. 



NETHERLANDS. 



Included in the census are 87 Indians. The 

 tribal Indians are officially estimated at 6,329. 

 The true value of property was $69,277,483. 

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

 amounted to $1,841,964. The aggregate value 

 of farm-products, including betterments and 

 additions to stock, was $8,604,742; 74,635 

 pounds of wool were raised ; 4,835 persons, 

 ten years old and over, cannot write, of whom 

 2,564 are males, and 2,271 are females. Of 

 those twenty-one years old and over who can- 

 not write, 956 are white males. 



There was no general election for the choice 

 of State officers during the year. ^ In the coun- 

 ty election for Douglas County, including the 

 city of Omaha, there was a Democratic ma- 

 jority of 815 in a total vote of 1,893. 



The right of the State to impose a tax upon 

 the Union Pacific Railroad Company came up 

 for adjudication before the United States Cir- 

 cuit Court in May. The State had levied the 

 tax, and suit was brought by the company to 

 restrain the Treasurer of Lincoln County from 

 collecting it, on the ground that only the Gen- 

 eral Government had a right to lay a tax on 

 the property of a corporation chartered by 

 Congress. The decision was in favor of the 

 State. Judge Dillon argued that the road 

 could be exempt from State taxation only on 

 the principle that it was an instrumentality of 

 the Federal Government. On that point he 

 concluded : " 1. That the Union Pacific Rail- 

 road Company is not an instrument of the 

 Government in such a sense as exempts it by 

 implication from the taxing power of the State 

 through which its road may be located. 2. If 

 it be in any sense a Federal instrumentality, 

 the rights of the Government, under the incor- 

 porating act, are fully protected and reserved, 

 and any rights derived from a sale for taxes, 

 under State authority, are entirely subordinate 

 to the original, paramount, and indefeasible 

 rights of the General Government ; cannot de- 

 stroy the corporation nor incapacitate it from 

 discharging any of its inalienable, fundamental, 

 and organic duties to the Government. If so, 

 then the case falls without the principle on 

 which the corporation relies to sustain its ap- 

 plication for an injunction." 



"I think," he said, "I can discover in the 

 more recent judgments of the Supreme Court 

 evidences of a conviction on the part of the 

 judges that the doctrine of implied exemption 

 of Federal agencies from State taxation has 

 been carried quite to its limit, and that it will 

 not be pressed to embrace a case of the char- 

 acter of that now under consideration." 



Nebraska has made steady progress during 

 the year in the development of her industrial 

 resources. The Board of Immigration has 

 made constant efforts to disseminate informa- 

 tion regarding the advantages of the State, 

 and, during the seven months preceding the 

 1st of October, the number of immigrants had 

 reached about 42,000. An agricultural fail- 

 was held at Brownville on the 26th. 27th, 28th, 



and 29th of September, at which there was a 

 fine display of cattle and products of the farm 

 and orchard. Fruit-growing has been under- 

 taken with great success, and bids fair to be- 

 come an important interest. 



NETHERLANDS, THE, a kingdom in Eu- 

 rope. King, William III., born February 19, 

 1817; succeeded his father, March 17, 1849; 

 heir-apparent to the throne, his son William, 

 Prince of Orange, born September 4, 1840. 

 The area and population of the kingdom, ac- 

 cording to an official statement, dated Decem- 

 ber 31, 1870, were as follows: 



The new ministry, appointed on January 3, 

 1871, was composed as follows : Minister of 

 Finance, Dr. P. Blusse" van Oud Alblas ; Minister 

 of the Interior, Dr. R. F. Thorbecke ; Minister 

 of the Colonies, Dr. P. P. van Bosse ; Minister 

 of Marine, L. G. Brocx ; Minister of War, Ma- 

 jor-General A. Engelvaart (January 26, 1871) ; 

 Minister of Justice, Dr. J. A. Jolles ; Minister 

 of Foreign Aifairs, Dr. J. L. H. A. Baron 

 Gericke de Herwynen. The budget for 1871 

 fixes the expenditures at 96,206,717 guilders, 

 and the revenue at 87,363,480 guilders, show- 

 ing a deficit of 8,843,237 guilders. The pub- 

 lic debt, in 1871, amounted to 996,610,776 

 guilders, and the interest payable on the same 

 to 28,085,605 guilders. The budget for the 

 colonies, in 1871, fixes receipts and expendi- 

 tures as follows : 



EAST INDIES. 



REVENUE. Guilders. 



Estimated revenue in India 69,553,700 



Estimated revenue in Holland (principally 

 from sales of colonial produce) 48,753,348 



Total 118,307,048 



EXPENDITURES. 



For the colonial administration in India 19,513,953 



For the home administration of the East In- 

 dies, including 9,800,000 guilder? payable as 

 interest on the colonial debt 88,491 ,394 



Total 108,005,347 



Estimated excess of revenue 10,301 ,701 



WEST INDIES. 



The army of the Netherlands, in 1871, num- 

 bered 62,128 men, of whom 2,017 were officers. 



