NORTH CAROLINA. 



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Deducting these special amounts, the ordi- 

 nary revenues for the fiscal years are as fol- 

 low : Year ending Nov. 30, 1885, $209,917,- 

 62; year ending Nov. 30, 1886, $650,601.03. 

 The large increase of revenue for the fiscal 

 year ending Nov. 30, 1886, over the amount 

 for the fiscal year of 1885, is owing to the sus- 

 pension of the collection of the State tax on 

 property in the year 1884. The collections 

 made by the sheriffs for 1884, under Schedules 

 B and C of the act to raise revenue, were paid 

 into the treasury during 1885. The suspension 

 of the State tax for 1884 was in consideration 

 of the payment of $600,000 on May 1, 1884, by 

 the authorities of the Western North Carolina 

 Railroad. The expenditures from this fund 

 for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1885, were 

 $795,486.26 ; and for Nov. 30, 1886, $1,172,- 

 652.31. These expenditures are subject to a 

 deduction of special funds, not provided for 

 by the ordinary revenues of the State, but 

 payable out of moneys specially collected. 

 They are as follow : 



Deducting these amounts, the expenditures 

 for the two fiscal years, payable out of the or- 

 dinary funds of the State, for general purposes, 

 were, Nov. 30, 1885, $675,746.26; Nov. 30, 

 1886, $680,572.97. 



The balance in the hands of the State Treas- 

 urer on Nov. 30, 1886, was as follows: 



Educational fund $28,223 88 



Public fund 172,327 06 



Total $195,550 44 



The State Treasurer reports that there was 

 paid in 1885 and 1886 for the support of the 

 Penitentiary, $121,900 ; the Institution for the 

 Deaf, Dumb, and the Blind, $36,000 ; the North 

 Carolina Insane Asylum (at Raleigh), $51,000; 

 the Western North Carolina Insane Asylum, 

 $46,500 ; and the Eastern North Carolina In- 

 sane Asylum, $25,000 ; total, $280,400. The 

 asylum at Raleigh now asks for $56,000 ; the 

 Western Asylum for $80,000 ; and the Institu- 

 tion for the Deaf, Dumb, and the Blind, for 

 $40,000. 



The assessed value of real and personal 

 property is $202,000,000. 



The principal of the bonded debt, recog- 

 nized in the act of March 4, 1879, to compro- 

 mise, commute, and settle the State debt, as 

 extended and amended by acts of Jan. 16, 1883, 

 and March 3, 1885, and authorized to be re- 

 deemed, is as follows : 



Forty-per-cent. class $5,477,400 00 



Twenty-five-per-cent. class 8,261,045 00 



Fifteen-per-cent. class 8,888,600 00 



Total $12,627,046 00 



Bonds have been redeemed as follows: 



First class, 40 per cent $4.865,90000 



Second class, 25 per cent 2,525,045 00 



Third class, 15 per cent 8,116,100 00 



Total $10,507,045 00 



New 4-per-cent. bonds have been issued as 

 follows: 



At 40 per cent. $1,946,360 00 



At 25 per cent 681,261 25 



At 15 per cent 467,415 00 



Act March 9, 1885 20,000 00 



Total $3,045,036 25 



At the close of 

 1884, there was a 

 the credit of the 4-per-cent. interest fund, 

 amounting to $310,014.52. Of this sum, $247,- 

 815.98 has since been invested in $272,250 of 

 4-per-cent. bonds. 



Education. The school statistics for North 

 Carolina, for the scholastic year ending in 1885, 

 were as follow : 



Paid teachers white $317,142 90 



Paid teachers colored 196,004 37 



For school-houseswhite 37,427 91 



For school-housescolored 26,728 42 



County superintendents, 12,41 6 48 



Teachers 1 institutes white 2,075 81 



Teachers' institutes colored 1,329 08 



Other purposes 20,974 67 



Treasurers' commissions 16,452 43 



Total $630,552 12 



Five counties did not report, nor does the 

 above statement embrace the local taxes for 

 graded schools, which, being added, will in- 

 crease the amount up to $750,000. There 

 were 2,721 teachers in attendance on the nor- 

 mal schools during the year, and 3,485 on the 

 institutes. In 1877 the number of pupils en- 

 rolled was 98,764; in 1885 it was 298,166. 

 In 1879 the value of school property was 

 $143,569; in 1885 it was $565,960. There 

 was an increase in receipts from ordinary taxa- 

 tion in 1885 of $51,693.32 ; and there was also 

 an increase in the average length of school 

 terms. In 1866 there was an increase in receipts 

 over those of 1885, of $38,767.41. Out of 530,- 

 127 children between the ages of six and 

 twenty-one, 298,166 attended the public schools 

 in 1885. Out of 547,308 children between the 

 same ages, 305,598 attended the public schools 

 in 1886. 



An industrial school has been established at 

 Raleigh. 



The catalogue of the University of North 

 Carolina for the session of 1885-'86 shows 204 

 students. The preparatory classes in Latin and 

 Greek were discontinued at the beginning of 

 the year, although many students of insufficient 

 preparation were thereby excluded from the 

 university. The faculty numbered fifteen, 

 with another member to be added. A College 

 of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, a de- 

 partment of normal instruction, and a school 

 of law, offer special courses to students in 

 these branches of study. Post-graduate in- 

 struction is offered in every department. 



Penitentiary. The greatest number of prison- 



