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MISSOURI. 



mal schools are not established for qualifying white 

 teachers for our public schools. We have a normal 

 school for the education and training of colored teach- 

 ers at Holly Springs, and 1 am of the opinion that it 

 is doing good work. But we have not a school in the 

 State, supported wholly or in part by the State, for the 

 advancement of our white teachers. 



The following are the general statistics of 

 the schools for the years 1882 and 1883, show- 

 ing all the important facts and results as to 

 enrollment, attendance, number of teachers 

 employed, of both races, expenses, etc. : 



The average salary of teachers is about $30 

 a month, and the average length of the school- 

 year is about two and a half months, except 

 in the principal towns, where it is five 

 months. 



MISSOURI. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year: Gov- 

 ernor, Thomas T. Crittenden, Democrat ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Robert A. Campbell ; Secre- 

 tary of State, Michael K. McGrath ; Treasurer, 

 Philip E. Chappell; Auditor, John Walker; 

 Attorney-General, Daniel H. Mclntyre; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Schools, William E. 

 Coleinan; Register of Lands, Robert McCul- 

 loch ; Superintendent of Insurance Depart- 

 ment, John F. Williams ; Commissioner of La- 

 bor Statistics, Henry A. Newman. Judiciary, 

 Supreme Court: Chief- Justice, Warwick Hough; 

 Associate Justices, John W. Henry, Elijah H. 

 Norton, Robert D. Ray, and T. A. Sher- 

 wood. 



Finances. The following tables show the in- 

 crease in valuation in real and personal prop- 

 erty. Under the law of Missouri, the assess- 

 ments upon all taxable property, except mer- 

 chandise, are made between the first day of 

 June and the first day of January, and the 

 valuation is placed upon it on the first day of 

 June. The taxes upon this assessment are col- 

 lected in the following autumn, more than a 

 year after the assessment is made : 



BONDED DEBT, JANUARY 1, 1SS3. 



State bonds outstanding $13,947 000 



School certificates of indebtedness 2.!iO!).iHio 



Certificates ol indebtedness for seminary fund . . . 122,000 



Total debt Jan. 1, 1883 $16,978,000 



In 1883 and 1884, State bonds were redeemed 

 and purchased aggregating $2,144,000. 



During these two years the State interest- 

 bearing debt was increased by reason of cer- 

 tificates having been issued to the school and 

 seminary funds as follows : 



For the State school fund $22,000 



For the benefit of the State University 887,000 



Total $409,000 



Deducting certificates issued from bonds re- 

 deemed and purchased, the actual reduction of 

 the interest-bearing debt in 1883 and 1884 was 

 $1,735,000, leaving the debt Jan. 1, 1885 : 



State bonds outstanding $11,803,000 



School-fund certificates 2,931,000 



University certificates 509.000 



Total interest-bearing debt Jan. 1, 1885 $15,243,000 



The annual interest on the public debt, as it 

 existed Jan. 1, 1883, amounted to $1,018,680. 

 As it now exists, the annual interest amounts 

 to $910,490. The annual interest on the bond- 

 ed debt is $708,180. On the certificates in the 

 school and seminary funds the annual interest 

 amounts to $202,310. 



Under the Constitution, the rate of State tax 

 can not exceed forty cents on the $100 valua- 

 tion. Section 8 of Article X of the Constitu- 

 tion reads as follows : " The State tax on prop- 

 erty, exclusive of the tax necessary to pay the 

 bonded debt of the State, shall not exceed 

 twenty cents on the hundred dollars 1 valua- 

 tion, and whenever the taxable property of 

 the State shall amount to $900,000,000, the 

 rate shall not exceed fifteen cents." "If," 

 says the Governor, u the large number of bonds, 

 notes, and other evidences of debt, now held 

 in concealment within and without this State 

 by its citizens, were given in to the assessors, 

 that amount would be largely exceeded." 



The following table shows the receipts from 

 all sources, with disbursements, transfers, and 

 balances for two years ending Dec. 31, 1884 : 



Jan. 1, 1883 . $860.468 55 



Keceipts and transfers, 1888 4,604,71 7 26 



Total ... $5,465.180 81 



Disbursements and transfers, 1883 4,452,852 49 



Jan. 1,1884, balance $1,012,328 32 



