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MINNESOTA. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Minneapolis had 46,887 inhabitants in 1880 

 and St. Paul 41,473. 



MISSISSIPPI. State GoTernment. The follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Robert Lowry, Democrat ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, G. D. Shands ; Secretary of State, 

 Henry C. Meyers ; Treasurer, W. L. Heming- 

 way; Auditor, Sylvanus Gwin ; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, Thomas 0. Catchings, succeeded by T. S. 

 Ford ; Superintendent of Public Education, J. 

 Argyle Smith; Commissioner of Agriculture 

 and Immigration, E. G. Wall. Supreme Court: 

 Chief -Justice, J. A. P. Campbell; Associate 

 Justices, J. M. Arnold and T. E. Cooper. 



Financial. The Legislature of 1882 increased 

 the common-school fund by $100,000 per an- 

 num and decreased the rate of taxation from 

 three to two and a half mills, which is equal 

 to $50,000 per annum. These two items made 

 a difference of $600,000 in the financial trans- 

 actions of the State in the four years. There 

 is not only great want of uniformity in the 

 assessed value of property in counties, but in 

 the different counties as compared with one 

 another. There are 152 circuit courts annual- 

 ly held in the State, at a cost of from $200,000 

 to $300,000. Probably half their time is taken 

 up with the trial of petty misdemeanors. The 

 Governor recommends that the fees of district 

 attorneys be abolished, and that they be paid 

 a fixed salary. The following are some of the 

 items for 1884 from the Auditor's report: 



* Decrease. 



In 1870 the population was 439,706. 

 The following are the principal cities, with 

 their population in 1885 : 



Total acreage 



Valuation of same $87,262,454 



State tax thereon $218,206 18 



Valuation of personalty $40,099,220 



State tax thereon $100,099 2 



Polls 190,698 



Educable children 457,449 



State tax paid treasury $271,518 



Commissions on State tax $13,680 



Received from retail liquor licenses $145,300 00 



Eeceipts from privileges $100,824 



Public Lands. Within the past four years the 

 United States has disposed of 682,090 acres of 

 land in the State, of the value of $760,362.50. 

 Under the act of Congress of March 1, 1817, 

 providing for the admission of Mississippi into 

 the Union, 5 per cent, of the net proceeds of 

 the lands lying within the State were reserve 

 for making public roads and canals ; of whi 

 three fifths was to be applied under the direc- 

 tion of the Legislature, and two fifths under 

 the direction of Congress. There is now a 

 mitted to be due, and payable to the S 

 under the provisions of this act, and the a 

 of Sept. 1, 1841, $43,945.81, unless the Genera 

 Government is entitled to set off against this 



