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ing deposits in or creating indebtedness by any bank 

 or banking institution, with knowledge of the insolv- 

 ency thereof. 



In relation to banks, bankers, and banking, re- 

 stricting loans, etc. 



To provide for the erection of a State Capitol build- 

 ing at Denver. 



Providing for a census of the State to be taken on 

 the 1st of June. 



Consolidating and revising the charter and amend- 

 ments of Denver. 



To prevent and punish wrongs to children. 



Concerning referees appointed by courts of record, 

 and the practice before them. 



To protect all citizens in their civil rights. 



Submitting to the people at the next general elec- 

 tion for members of the Legislature several amend- 

 ments to the judiciary article of the Constitution. 



To provide for the amendment of articles of incor- 

 poration, except of railroad companies. 



To provide for the punishment of persons guilty of 

 a willful, malicious, or negligent use of fire. 



To punish the commission of willful trespass upon 

 dams, dikes, or embankments upon improved or in- 

 closed lands. 



To punish seduction as a crime. 



To punish the fraudulent giving of checks or drafts 

 upon banks. 



To punish as a crime the enticing of unmarried fe- 

 males under twenty years of age to dance-houses, etc. 



Concerning offenses against public morality. 



To prevent injury to caves. 



To prevent the sale of intoxicating or malt liquors 

 to minors or habitual drunkards, and to prevent their 

 frequenting saloons, houses of ill-fame, etc. 



Kelative to contested elections. 



Eepealing the act of 1883 regulating primary elec- 

 tions. 



To provide for the appointment of guardians of non- 

 resident minors. 



Declaring that shareholders in]banks, savings-banks, 

 trust, deposit, and security associations shall be held 

 individually responsible for debts, contracts, and en- 

 gagements of said associations in double the amount 

 of the par value of the stock owned by them. 



Making it a misdemeanor to destroy or remove any 

 fence or covering erected around or over shafts or 

 other openings upon mining claims. 



To regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomar- 

 garine, etc. 



For the preservation of the health of females em- 

 ployed in manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile 

 establishments. 



Creating a Forest Commissioner for the State. 



Creating a Railroad Commissioner. 



To provide a system of recording grants. 



To prevent the introduction of infectious or con- 

 tagious diseases among the cattle and horses of the 

 State. 



In relation to appeals to the Supreme Court, and the 

 jurisdiction thereof. To facilitate the construction of 

 telegraph, telephone, and electric light lines. 



Railroad Assessment. The assessed value of 

 railroad property in 1884 was $19,923,425.05. 

 Of broad-gauge road, there were assessed 1,294 

 miles of main and UTi miles of side track ; 

 of narrow-gauge, 1,599 miles of main and 245 

 miles of side track. 



Education. The public-school system of the 

 State consists of ungraded district schools, 

 town and city graded schools, with high-school 

 courses; the University at Boulder; the School 

 of Mines at Golden : the Agricultural College 

 at Fort Collins ; and the Mute and Blind Insti- 

 tute at Colorado Springs. There is a State In- 

 dustrial School (Reform School for Boys) at 

 Golden. The State University has in operation 



a preparatory, a normal, a classical, a scientific, 

 and a medical department. 



The Constitution of the State provides 

 " that no person shall be denied the right to 

 vote at any school-district election, or to hold 

 any school-district office, on account of sex." 



No district is entitled to any portion of the 

 State or county fund unless it maintains a 

 school, taught by a licensed teacher, for at least 

 sixty days in each year. In the country dis- 

 tricts, schools are maintained from 60 to 150 

 days, sometimes prolonged even to 200 days. 

 In cities and towns the schools are from 120 

 (in a few) to 200 days in length; those in 

 which is enrolled a majority of the pupils of 

 graded schools are in session at least 190 days; 

 while those in which is enrolled a majority of 

 the pupils of ungraded schools are in session 

 about 100 days. A tax of one fifth of one mill 

 is levied by the State for the support of each of 

 the three higher institutions (the University, 

 Agricultural College, and School of Mines). 



The public-school revenue is derived almost 

 exclusively from taxation. In common with 

 other new Western States, Colorado has a land 

 grant of sections sixteen and thirty-six in each 

 surveyed township, but so large a portion of 

 these fall upon arid lands that the grant is of 

 little aid to the school fund. The statute pro- 

 vides for the annual levy of a county tax for 

 school purposes of not less than two nor more 

 than five mills; this, with the proceeds of 

 penal fines, constitutes the county school fund. 

 To this is added whatever may be received 

 from the State fund. The State fund will be 

 materially increased hereafter by the amount 

 received from the Insurance Department. 

 School districts may tax themselves for mainte- 

 nance or building purposes. 



The amount of the State school fund, on 

 Nov. 30, 1884, was $114,220. This is kept in- 

 vested in State warrants at 6 per cent, interest. 

 This interest, and the rental from leased lands, 

 is distributed semi-annually to the counties 

 that have made a legal report for the preced- 

 ing year, per capita of school population. 



The following is a summary of school statis- 

 tics for two years : 



