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CALIFORNIA. 



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CALIFORNIA, a Pacific coast State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Sept. 9, 1850 ; area, 158,360 

 square miles. The population, according to each 

 decennial census since admission, was 92,597 in 

 1850; 379,994 in 1860 ; 560,247 in 1870 ; 864,694 

 in 1880 ; and 1,208,130 in 1890. Capital, Sacra- 

 mento. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, H. H. Mark- 

 ham, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, J. B. 

 Reddick ; Secretary of State, Edward G. Waite ; 

 Treasurer, J. R. McDonald : Comptroller, Edwin 

 P. Colgan ; Attorney-General, W. H. H. Hart ; 

 Surveyor-General, Theodore Reichert ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, James W. Ander- 

 son ; Railroad Commissioners, William Beckman, 

 J. M. Litchfield, and James W. Rea ; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, W. H. Beatty ; Asso- 



ciate Justices. J. R. Sharpstein, T. B. McFarland, 

 A. Van R. Paterson, C. H. Garoutte, Ralph C. 

 Harrison, J. J. De Haven. 



Population by Races. The table below pre- 

 sents the population of the State by races in 

 1880 and 1890. 



Finances. The State Treasurer reported a 

 balance in the treasury on July 1, 1888, of $1,546,- 

 434.25 ; the total receipts for the year ensuing 

 were $7,554,526.68, and the total expenditures 

 $7,035,189.50, leaving a balance on July 1, 1889, 

 of $2,065,771.43. For the year next following 

 the total receipts were $9,999,663.62, and the to- 

 tal expenditures $8,500,175.69, leaving a balance 

 of $3,565,259.36 on July 1, 1890. These figures 

 include all the various funds held by the State 

 Treasurer. The separate receipts and expendi- 

 tures of the more important of these funds were 



