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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SPAIN. 



mon schools in the State was repealed by the 

 Legislature of 1870-'71, and a substitute passed. 

 This provides, for the government of the 

 schools: a State-board of education; a State 

 Superintendent and county-school commission- 

 ers, to be elected by the people ; county boards 

 of school examiners, and three school trustees 

 in each district. It creates a commission con- 

 sisting of the Governor of the State, the chair- 

 man of the Committee on Education of the 

 Legislature, and two other members, elected by 

 the Senate and the House, representing each, 

 to procure and establish a uniform system of 

 text-books for all the schools of the State; 

 places the distribution of the school-moneys 

 and incomes in the hands of the Board of Edu- 

 cation, which is to consist of the several 

 county-school commissioners arid the State 

 Superintendent ; provides for the proper loca- 

 tion and building of school-houses, and exam- 

 ination of teachers; and makes nine months 

 the school year. The school commissioners 

 of the city of Charleston, as a city-school 

 board, are empowered to levy and cause to be 

 collected, as other city taxes are, a sum not 



to exceed one and one-half of one mill on tho 

 dollar on all taxable property in the city. 



The condition of the various State institutions 

 during the year has been satisfactory. The 

 number of patients admitted into the Lunatic 

 Asylum has been larger than in any previous 

 year, and the number under treatment greater 

 than ever before. Of the number admitted, 7 1 

 were males and 54 females. Of the number 

 remaining in the institution at the end of Octo- 

 ber, 185 were males and 187 females; whites, 

 295 ; colored, 75. The receipts for the year 

 from patients were $9,824.78 ; from the State 

 Treasury, $34,000 : total, $43,824.78. The ex- 

 penditures were greater than the receipts by 

 $21,271.48. The State Penitentiary contained 

 during the year 557 prisoners ; of this number 

 309 remained at the close of October. Of those 

 who were discharged, 153 were pardoned. 

 During the year 13 escaped. The value of 

 work done, and manufactured articles pro- 

 duced by the convicts, was $98,626.02; ex- 

 penditures, $104,134.02; showing an actual 

 cost to the State, of the penitentiary, of 

 $5,558. 



CENSUS OP 1870. 



Included in the census are one Chinaman and 

 124 Indians. The true value of property was 

 $208,146,989. The public debt, county, city, 

 town, etc., amounted to $5,409,320. The ag- 

 gregate value of farm-products, including bet- 

 terments and additions to ktock, was $41,909,- 

 402; 156,314 pounds of wool were raised; 

 55,167 whites, and 235,164 colored persons, 

 ten years old and over, cannot write, of whom 

 137,246 are males, and 153,085 are females. 



Of those twenty-one years old and over, who 

 cannot write, 12,490 are white males. 



SPAIN, a kingdom of Europe. King, Ama- 

 deo L, born May 30, 1845, son of King Victor 

 Emmanuel of Italy, assumed the crown of 

 Spain, offered to him by the Spanish Cortes, 

 on December 4, 1870 ; married, on May 30, 

 1867, to Maria, daughter of the Prince della 

 Cisterna ; his oldest son, Emmanuel, Duke of 

 Apulia, born January 13, 1869. According to 



