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The separate figures for each of 

 Minds, which make up the totals 

 II, are as follow: (icin-ral fund. 1ml- 



1 It. 81, l ss '. ( . Sf.Vi.ti^Ci.ll.'i ; receipts for 



nsiiing. sjMTlVJ I"."'-' : expenditure-, 

 ; balance on Dec. ill. IS'M). $r,.\ 1 1 1.- 

 I'lllld, balance on Dec. :il, 1SS!(, $10,- 

 ipts for the \ear ensuing, $7,4:!.". I s : 



I ; 'balance on Dec. ol, 1890, 

 School fund, balance on Dec. '!!, 



i'..7<>; re<-eipts for the year ensuing, 

 ..HO; expenditures. $100,452.15; balance 



::i, 1MM, $20,410.4"). The sources of 

 enue are the income from investments 

 the taxes dcrhcd from the use of franchises 

 iieil to railroad companies and other qucuti- 

 corporatioiis. so that no tax, except 

 lees, is levied upon the citi/.ens. The 

 i State i!i lit is xs ( .i'.i,?f)0, to meet which the 

 ;olds in its general fund securities to the 

 amount of $673,050. Among these securities is 

 a mortgage for $400,000 on the property of the 

 Junction and Breakwater Railroad, which be- 

 came due this year. By an act of the General 

 My passed early in the year, the State lias 

 ; o'n payment of $215,000 on the principal 

 of this mortgage, to continue on mortgage the 

 balance oi x IN:,. 000 for a period of forty years, 

 at :! per cent, interest. Another mortgage for 

 S'joo.uoo, given by the Breakwater and Frank- 



; ail road, is to be similarly renewed. 

 Legislative Session. The regular biennial 

 session of the General Assembly began on Jan. 

 (i. and ended on May 16. On Jan. 21, by joint 

 ition, Wilbur F. Burnite was chosen State 

 Treasurer and John P. Dulaney State Auditor. 

 Kaily in the session a bill was passed providing 

 thai 'the Question of calling a constitutional con- 

 vention should be submitted to the people on 

 the third Tuesday of May. An important re- 

 sult of the session was a secret-ballot law. It 

 provides that all voting rooms shall be furnished 

 with booths at least one for-each 150 voters 

 so e, .ustructed that the election inspectors may 

 easily see whet her they are occupied. No person 

 except applicants to vote and election officials 

 shall be allowed within 30 feet of the entrance 

 to the voting room. There shall be a roped 

 _re. 4 feet wide and 30 feet long, through 

 which the voters enter. Blanket ballots are to 

 be used, with the nominees of each party col- 

 lected by columns, each column headed by the 

 name of the party and the party emblem. 

 V Miens are to mark their ballots by a stamp. 

 Any names not on the ballot must be written 

 with ink. A free text-book bill provides that 

 text -books shall be supplied in the public schools 

 the expense of the State, appropriates $9,000 

 " {.(MX) for each county to colored schools, 

 places these schools and the expenditure of 

 the money in the control of the county superin- 

 tendents." It also makes the Governor" President 

 of the State Board of Education, instead of the 

 President of Delaware College, who now holds 

 that office. Another act appropriates $8,000 

 for the erection of buildings for a college 

 of agriculture and the mechanic arts, to be 

 open exclusively to colored students, and 

 diverts to its maintenance 20 per cent, of 

 the money coming to the State from the Federal 

 Government for support of such institutions. 



The Mini of $25,000 was appropriated to the 

 Delaware College for buildings to IM- used by tin- 

 Department of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts. To provide lor the collection and arrange- 

 ment of the products of the State at tin- World's 

 Fair at Chicago, $10,000 was appropriated, and 

 a State World's Fair commission appointed, 

 consisting of one Republican, one Democrat, and 

 one woman from each county. An act, known 

 as the Five Commissioners' bill, the terms of 

 which were much discussed In-fore its final pas- 

 sage, reconstructs the levy court of Newcastle 

 County, an ancient institution for the manage- 

 ment of county affairs. The commissioners of 

 this court are now to be elected by the people 

 one from each of the five districts. The county 

 t reasurer and a county comptroller are also to 

 be elected by the people. The former official is 

 empowered to receive all county taxes, but Mich 

 taxes, when unpaid after a fixed time, shall be 

 placed in the nands of collectors of delinquent 

 taxes, who are to be appointed by the levy-court 

 commissioners. By two other acts the duties of 

 the levy court in Kent and Sussex Counties are 

 changed, and provision is made for the election 

 by the people of a county treasurer in each 

 county. Two registration acts, one for the city 

 of Wilmington and another for the remainder 

 of the State, were passed at this session. Two 

 amendments to the State Constitution were pro- 

 posed one amending Article IX by substituting 

 general election day for the third Tuesday of 

 May, the other amending Article IV so as to 

 legalize the use of the Myer's voting machine, 

 so-called. 



Other acts were as follow : 



To prohibit the taking or sending out of the State 

 or, by a non-resident, out of the county of any 

 quail, partridge, robin, woodcock, English snipe, or 

 wild rabbit, under a penalty of $5 for each bird or 

 rabbit 



For the protection of mamoose or young 8turtr*-<>n. 



For the protection of registered, banded, and honi- 

 imr pigeons. 



To provide for the appointment of commissioners 

 for the promotion of uniformity in legislation. 



To punish procurers and procuresses. 



The act concerning peach yellows applies to that 

 part of the State south of Kenton and Duck Creek 

 Hundreds goes into ctt'ect Oct 1, and provides lor the 

 eradication of all diseased trees, except that the in- 

 spectors may, in their discretion, pass such trees us 

 are being doctored with favorable results. 



Abolishing militia encampments and everything 

 pertaining thereto. 



Prohihitintr the unauthorized wearing of the insig- 

 nia of the I'nioli Veterans' League. 



Giving a workman the right to enter n lien on a 

 buiidiiiir tor labor performed, no matter how small 

 the claim. 



To punish the embezzlement or fraudulent ahstnie- 

 tion or misapplication of money or other articles of 

 value by cashiers, s -rvants, agents, or clerks. 



To prevent life-insurance companies and agents 

 doing business in the State from discriminat'iiit: in 

 rates where the risks are equal. 



To legalize the issue of certain State bonds. (Pro- 

 viding tor a reissue of the $75,000 bonds, first ordered 

 to be issued in 1889, for the purchase of the Delaware 

 State Hospital tor tin- Insane at Farnhurst, and prc- 

 vidin-r that the proceeds of the sale of these bond* 

 shall be applied to paying off the floating debt of 

 New Castle County.) 



Education. There is no State Superintend- 

 ent of Public Schools, and no figures covering 



