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permanent school fund, $6,259,632.38 ; perma- 

 nent university fund, $662,788.30; internal 

 improvement land fund, $1,300,605.71. 



The congressional grant of land for the use 

 of schools it is estimated will amount to about 

 3,000,000 acres when the surveys of the State 

 are completed ; 908,145 acres of which have 

 been sold at an average of $6.02 an acre. Esti- 

 mated upon this basis, the common-school fund 

 will ultimately realize over $18,000,000 from 

 this source. 



The permanent university grant has 93,081 

 acres yet to be disposed of, which will swell 

 the accumulations of its fund to fully $1,000,- 

 000. The internal improvement land fund has 

 274,833 acres of its grant yet unsold. Its final 

 accumulations should be nearly $3,000,000. 

 This may properly be denominated a sinking 

 fund for the redemption of the State railroad 

 adjustment bonds, as it has been provided by 

 constitutional amendment that all the revenues 

 of this fund shall be applied to the payment of 

 the principal and interest of those bonds. 



The present indebtedness of the State is rep- 

 resented by the following issue of bonds : 



Eailroad adjustment bonds, issue of 1881, due in 

 twenty, and redeemable in ten years, 4J per 

 cent... ..................$4,283,000 



Revenue bonds, issue of 1883, redeemable at the 



pleasure of the State, 4$ per cent 200.000 



Total $4,433,000 



These revenue bonds will be redeemed with- 

 in the next three years, provision having been 

 made therefor. 



The Public Examiner's statement of county 

 finances shows receipts for 1884 of $9,381,126.- 

 99, including balance on hand ; disbursements, 

 $7,369,703.59. 



Education. The enrollment in the public 

 schools during the year was 223,209, an in- 

 crease of 26,566 since the last biennial report. 

 During the period 392 new school-buildings 

 were erected, at a cost of $1,085,170, and the 

 sum of $4,808,931.70 was raised for educational 

 support. The three normal schools are in a 

 high state of efficiency. The Normal Board re- 

 port the following enrollment for the year : 



At Winona 503 



At Mankato 502 



At St. Cloud 870 



Total 1,375 



showing an increase of 347 in two years. Of 

 the total enrollment, 672 are in the normal de- 

 partment proper, 300 in the preparatory, and 

 403 in the model. The number of teachers 

 graduated to date in all the schools is 1,053. 



In 1884 the current expenses of these schools 

 were $49,865.34; expended for improvements, 

 $13,723.57. 



The number of high-schools to which the 

 State aid of $400 each was apportioned in 

 1882 was 38; in 1883, 49; in 1884, 53; pupils 

 enrolled, 2,613. 



The applicants admitted to the State Uni- 

 versity were 63 in 1883, and 87 in 1884. The 

 attendance was 223 and 279, and the graduates 

 25 and 26, for the same years respectively. 



The department of medicine, has been organ- 

 ized. The affairs of the university are gener- 

 ally in a very prosperous condition. The ex- 

 penditures for the two years were $1 12,478.25 

 for current account, and $50,995.85 for perma- 

 nent improvements. 



Hospitals lor the Insane. During the twenty 

 months ending July 31, 1884, there was an in- 

 crease of 330 in the population of the two State 

 hospitals for the insane. The number receiv- 

 ing care at the date of the trustees' report was 

 1,193806 at St. Peter and 387 at Rochester. 

 The capacity of the hospitals during the past 

 two years has been increased by an additional 

 wing at Rochester, and a detached ward at St. 

 Peter, sufficient together to accommodate 375 

 patients; making the present aggregate ca- 

 pacity of the hospitals 1,275. The added capaci- 

 ty has but little more than met the increase of 

 population of this class. 



The expenditures for account of the insane 

 the past two years have been as follows: 



The average weekly cost per capita has been 

 $3.54 at St. Peter and $3.44 Rochester for the 

 past year. 



Deaf and Dnmb, Blind, and Imbeciles. There 

 has been a moderate increase in the pupils of 

 each department, the proportion being largest 

 in the school for the feeble-minded. Two hun- 

 dred and fifty-three pupils were in attendance 

 during the year, divided as follows : deaf and 

 dumb, 151 ; blind, 42, and feeble-minded, 60. 

 A structure has been added to the Blind Insti- 

 tute, at a cost of $36,578.31. The building for 

 imbeciles has also been enlarged to nearly 

 double its capacity, at a cost of about $24,000. 



State Prison. During the night of January 8 

 a portion of the shops in which the convicts 

 were employed was burned, and on the 25th 

 another fire reduced to ruins the building of 

 the prison proper, with nearly all its contents. 

 One of the shops destroyed by the first fire was 

 the property of the State. It was determined 

 to rebuild this, and also to restore the prison 

 building upon an improved plan as to its inte- 

 rior arrangement and construction. The struc- 

 tures are completed and now in use. 



The cost of the new prison building, includ- 

 ing the iron roof of the cell-room, is about 

 $48,000. The new shop was contracted for 

 at $23,000, and $2,700 was expended in restor- 

 ing the engine and boiler-room, making a total 

 of $73,700 as the cost of replacing the struct- 

 ures destroyed by fire. The loss on furniture 

 and supplies destroyed with the buildings was 

 $4,738.58. The insurance was $21,043.81. 



In addition to the restored buildings there has 



