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was manufactured in Louisville; foundry and machine-shop products, $9,627,000; iron and 

 steel, 7,779,000 (including blast furnaces, $9,258,000); slaughtering and meat packing 

 products, 6,568,000; steam-railway cars, repairs, 86,535,000; men's clothing, 6,052,000; and 

 carriages and wagons, 5,141,000. The principal manufacturing cities were: Louisville, 

 101,284,000; Covington, 8,712,000; Newport; 6,490,000; Paducah, 4,967,000; Owens- 

 boro, 3,505,000; Frankfort, 3,083,000, Henderson, 2,932,000; and Lexington, 2,851,000. 

 Transportation. Railway mileage, January I, 1912, 3,840.66. In 1912 the Federal 

 government began work on Lock and Dam No. 14, the last of a series on the Kentucky river; 

 and in 1911 it repaired locks and dams on the Green and Barren rivers. 



Legislation. The regular session of the legislature was held in 1912 from January 

 2nd to March i2th. The pay of members was increased from $5.00 a day with mileage 

 to $10 a day and 15 cents a mile. The president of the senate and the speaker of the 

 house receive an additional $5.00 a day. For a new Governor's Mansion in Frankfort 

 $75,000 was appropriated. Constitutional amendments were preposed by the legisla- 

 ture for working convicts on public roads and providing for a referendum petition in 

 regard to tax laws. These will be voted on at the next regular election. 



An appropriation was made for the purchase of Jefferson Davis's birthplace near Fair- 

 view in Todd county and for building a memorial in Jefferson Davis park under the control 

 of the Jefferson Davis Home Association. A cession of land to the Federal Government for 

 a Mammoth Cave National Park was authorised. 



A new county, McCreary, was created out of Pulaski, Wayne and Whitney counties, and 

 Pine Knot was made temporary county-seat by the county commissioners. The name of 

 Mt. Pleasant, Harlan county, was changed to Harlan. Lexington adopted commission 

 government by vote on November 7, 1911; the first election under the new charter was in 

 November 1912. Newport adopted it in 1910 and Paducah rejected it in November 1911. 



Women are allowed to vote for school officers and on school matters and may hold school 

 offices except those limited to men by the constitution. A primary election is to be held on 

 the first Saturday of August of each year and nominations must be certified unless the 

 nominating petition is signed by 3 to 10% of the party vote for presidential electors at the 

 last election. This law does not provide for primary vote for presidential electors but it 

 does require a preferential vote for United States senators. 



The legislature created a state insurance board to take over the work of the insurance 

 commissioner; a pension board, to pension indigent and disabled Confederate soldiers and 

 widows of Confederate veterans residing in the state since January i, 1907; a department of 

 public roads and state commissioner of public roads; a game and fish commission; a state 

 board of agriculture, replacing the board of agriculture, forestry and immigration, part of 

 the work of which is taken over by a newly created board of forestry; a state board of tuber- 

 culosis commissioners; a state geological survey to take over the work of the geological sur- 

 vey, formerly a part of the state university; and the office of state fire marshal. 



The working hours of women under 21, except in domestic service and nursing, are limited 

 to 60 a week and 10 a day; and these hours were made the maximum for all women working 

 in factories, stores, hotels, telephone and telegraph companies. 



The possession of a U.S. special tax stamp was made prima facie evidence of violation of 

 local option laws. It was made unlawful to buy, procure or deliver intoxicating liquors in 

 local option territory l where their sale is prohibited, but common carriers acting in good 

 faith may deliver 5 gallons or more to licensed druggists and physicians. Intoxicating 

 liquors must not be sold within 400 ft. of state normal schools or colleges. The tenement 

 laws of the state were revised. A law was passed forbidding public drinking cups. 



Finance. The 1912 legislature created a state department of banking. The balance in 

 the state treasury on June 30, 1912 was 300,550, and the amount of outstanding (unpaid) 

 warrants, $1,801,387; receipts for the year were 7,280,486 and expenditures, 7,336,225. 



Education. The legislature of 1912 made education compulsory for children between 7 

 and 12 unless excused by the county board of education for physical or mental condition. 

 The State School for the Deaf is now classified as an educational (rather than a charitable) 

 institution. Since the beginning of 1911 the department of education has had a rural 

 supervisor of schools whose salary is paid by the Southern Education Board and a high 

 school supervisor whose salary is paid by the General Education Board (traveling expenses 

 by the state university) and who acts as professor of secondary education in the Western 

 Normal School. A "school improvement league organiser" is paid by the Southern Educa- 

 tion Board and the State Federation of Women's Clubs. 



The percentage of illiterates in the population (10 years old and over) was 12.1 in 1910 as 

 compared with 16.5 in 1900; of negroes 27.6% in 1910 and 40.1 % in 1900. 



For the year ending June 30, 1911 (the last for which statistics are available), in rural 

 schools the total population was 591,255 (59,900 negroes); the enrollment 424,976 (39,369 



1 In 1911-12 of 9 counties voting on liquor licence, only 3 were for licence and I of these 

 will probably be contested (Boyd county; election of May 2, 1912). 



