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to have been cut from any bond authorized by law to 

 be issued by the State of Virginia, or by any city, 

 county, or corporation, the defendant may demand 

 the production of the bond ; and thereupon it shall 

 be the duty of the plaintiff to produce such bond, 

 with proof that the coupon was actually cut there- 

 from. 



Authorizing the employment of penitentiary con- 

 victs on county roads and works of internal improve- 

 ment, including railroads. 



A local -option act was passed. 



Penitentiary. There are usually on the books 

 of the Penitentiary from 1,000 to 1,025 prison- 

 ers. Of these 500 men and 68 women were in 

 the spring employed in the shoe-shop under 

 contract; in the tobacco-factory, under contract, 

 95 men and boys were employed. The State 

 receives on an average about 40 cents a day for 

 these prisoners. About 150 men were hired to 

 the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad, and at 

 work near Bristol. The State guards, feeds, 

 clothes, and doctors these convicts free of ex- 

 pense to the company, provided the per capita 

 does not exceed what the same would be in the 

 Penitentiary say, 25 cents a day. 



Schools. The subject of free text-books was 

 much discussed in the Legislature, but no act 

 was passed. By the school census of 1835, 

 there were 609,116 children of school age, of 

 whom 303,343 were enrolled. The amount 

 appropriated and paid for building the Virginia 

 Normal and Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, 

 for colored people, is $138,674.04. For its sup- 

 port $20,000 annually appropriated. 



Finances. The estimated receipts of the State 

 government from all sources for 1886 amount 

 to $2,700,000 ; the expenditures of the gov- 

 ernment, ordinary and extraordinary, for the 

 year aggregate $2,267,556.36, not including the 

 interest on the unfunded portion of the public 

 debt as recognized by the Riddleberger settle- 

 ment, which would amount to $350,000 addi- 

 tional, nor the amount required by the Con- 

 stitution to establish a sinking-fund for the 

 liquidation of that debt. 



The amount necessary for the ordinary ex- 

 penses of the government is stated at $1,440,- 

 656.98. The following is a statement of the 

 public debt of Virginia under the Riddleberger 

 bill to Jan. 30, 1886 : 



Surrender to Dec. 31, 1885 $8,129,195 87 



Surrender during January, 1886, including 

 $3,196 tax-receivable coupons 131,855 81 



Total surrender $8,261,051 68 



NEW ISSUE. 

 In new 3-per-cent. Virginia bonds to Dec. 31, 



1885 $5,354,683 53 



New issue during January, 1SSC 64,159 80 



Total new issue to date $5,418,843 83 



Amount of tax-receivable coupons paid, or 

 judgment under acts of Jan. 14 and 26, 1S82, 

 including $10,497 paid during the month of 

 January, 1886 $277,946 00 



In February the Governor submitted a mes- 

 sage to the Legislature in view of the decisions 

 of the United States Supreme Court in the cou- 

 pon cases, in which he reviews the history of 

 the debt and the financial condition of the 

 State. (See COUPON CASES, in " Annual Cy- 

 clopaedia " for 1885.) 



Political. On November 2, ten Congressmen 

 were chosen. There were Democratic candi- 

 dates in each district. In those districts in 

 which the Republicans had no candidates of 

 their own, they supported independent candi- 

 dates. Democrats were elected in the Third, 

 Seventh, and Eighth Districts, a Labor candi- 

 date in the Sixth, and Republicans in the other 

 six. In 1884 only two Republican Congress- 

 men were chosen, in the 2d and 4th districts. 

 The total Democratic vote this year was 102,- 

 490; opposition, 123,429. On April 26 an elec- 

 tion was held in Richmond, Manchester, and 

 Lynchburg, under the local-option act. All 

 three places voted for license. The vote in 

 Richmond was 8,941 for license, and 3,260 

 against. 



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WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Territorial Govern- 

 ment. The following were the Territorial offi- 

 cers during the year : Governor, Watson C. 

 Squire ; Secretary, N. II. Owings ; Auditor, 

 T. M. Reed; Treasurer, William McMicken; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, R. 0. 

 Kerr. Supreme Court: Chief-Justice, R. S. 

 Greene; Associate Justices, John P. Hoyt, 

 A. R. Langford, and George Turner. 



Anti-Chinese Disturbances. Violent attempts to 

 drive out the Chinese, in some cases resulting 

 in murder, occurred in 1885, and were renewed 

 in 1886. In Squak Valley three were mur- 

 dered and three wounded, and the murderers 

 were not punished. At Coal Creek their quar- 

 ters were burned. The greater part of the 

 Chinamen engaged in the mine there had been 

 at work for three years. An " Anti-Chinese 



Congress" was held in Seattle, and a large 

 public meeting in Tacoma. There were torch- 

 light processions, with anti- Chinese mottoes, 

 and committees appointed to organize the 

 movement for expulsion of all Chinese from 

 the Territory. 



On Nov. 3, 1885, at 9.30 A.M., a short blast 

 of whistles of the car- shops and iron-foundry 

 called together several hundred men at the foot 

 of Pacific Avenue, in Tacoma, who formed 

 themselves into line, and first marched to a 

 Chinese house. They there notified the Chi- 

 nese to pack up and prepare to leave the town 

 that day. Two or three men were detailed 

 and left at this house to assist in packing the 

 goods of the Chinese, and in the removal of 

 persons and property. From this point the 

 organized body of men marched tc each Chi- 



