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:ir 1888- '89 tho amount Available for 

 rl of |nil>lir M-huols was $476,490, de- 

 I'roin tin- following sources: From the 

 for schools, levied l>y the various coun- 

 -.'163,490; fn>m the State one-mill tax, $76,- 

 rom interest on the State Common-school 

 *:57.<MM). The ainoiint available in 1889-'90 

 p derived as follows: From tho 

 s:::i!i.7.Vi..~><; ; from tho State one-mill 

 :..'!! ; from interest on the State Com- 

 fund. $32,673.83. In 1880-90 tho 



sum of $336,405.52 was expended for teachers' 

 wages. Tho average length of the school year 

 50 daj . During the year 79 new school- 

 were erected, at a cost of $32,554.62. 



The State Agricultural College, at Lake City, 



had an attendance of 160 pupils on Jan. 1, 1890; 



but the number on Jan. 1, 1891, had fallen to 



;s a result of raising the standard of admis- 



sion. At tho West Florida Seminary 70 students 



n attendance on Jan. 1, 1891, and at the 



Florida Seminary 107. On the same date 



there were 84 pupils at the normal college for 



white teachers at Do Funiak Springs, and 74 



at (lie normal college for colored teachers at 



Tallahassee. The Institute for Deaf and Blind 



at St. Augustine cares for about 28 pupils. 



Charities. At the State Insane Asylum, on 

 Jan. 1, 1890, there were 249 patients, of whom 

 1'J? were males and 122 females. During the 

 year following 64 persons were admitted and 74 

 discharged, leaving 239 inmates on Jan. 1, 1891, 

 of whom 118 were males and 121 females. Ad- 

 ditions to the present buildings are in process of 

 construction. 



State Prisons. For the two years ending 

 Jan. 1, 1891, the population of the State Prison 

 shows the following changes: Convicts on Jan. 

 1, 1889, 319 ; received during the year following, 

 2(>'.t : discharged, 200 ; remaining on Jan. 1, 1890, 

 388; received during the year 1890, 233; dis- 

 charged, 212; remaining on Jan. 1, 1891, 409. 

 Since Jan. 1, 1890, all State convicts have been 

 leaded to E. B. Bailey, of Monticello, who has 

 sublet a portion of them for work on turpentine 

 farms, the remainder being employed during 

 1890 at farming, and during this year at phos- 

 phate mining. 



Confederate Pensions. Under the pension 

 law. approved June 8, 1889, 503 claims had been 

 filed up to March 10 of this year, of which 292 

 had been allowed by the Governor. Of the total 

 number of claims, 105 were filed by widows, 69 

 of which have been allowed. Nearly all of the 

 male pensioners receive from $90 to $100 annu- 

 allv, and widows receive $150 annually. 



World's Fair Convention. The Legislature 

 having failed to pass a World's Fair appropria- 

 tion bill, a State convention was called, to meet 

 at Orlando on Oct. 7, to devise other ways and 

 means for securing a suitable exhibit of tho re- 

 sources of the State at Chicago in 1898. Only 

 14 of the 45 counties in the State were repre- 

 sented, by 111 delegates. Gov. Fleming pre- 

 sided. The convention decided to appoint a 

 committee of 13 directors from the State at 

 large, who should have entire management of 

 the Florida exhibit. Each county was requested 

 to elect a county executive committee, who 

 should co-operate with the State committee. It 

 was further provided that the sum of $100,000 



should b<> apportioned nnd rai-ed from the sev- 

 eral counties, on the basis of the tax assessments 

 of 1891, each county committee adopting it* 

 own method of raising the amount. Not over 

 in | ' rcent. of the subscription shall be expanded 

 until $50,000 have been collected. 



FRANCE, a republic in western F.urope, estab- 

 lished on Sent. 4, 1870. The Constitution was 

 adopted brute National Assembly on Feb. 25, 

 1875, and was revised on Dec. 9, 1884, and June 

 16, 1885. It. vest- the legislative power in the 

 National Assembly, consisting of flic Chamber 

 of Deputies, elected by universal suffrage for four 

 years, in the proportion of 1 member to every 

 70,000 inhabitants, and a Senate, composed of 300 

 members elected by electoral colleges in each de- 

 partment, made up of the Council General, tin- 

 deputies for the department, and delegates of 

 the communes. The life Senators, 75 in number, 

 who were appointed before the revision of 1884, 

 are replaced, as their seats fall vacant, by others 

 elected in the regular way for the ordinary term 

 of nine years. In 1890 their number had been 

 reduced by death to 53. One third of the elective 

 Senators are replaced every three years. The 

 Deputies, of whom there are 584, are elected by 

 scrutin d' ' arrondissement, each candidate being 

 bound to announce his candidacy for a single 

 district only within a fortnight of the election. 

 From 1871 till 1876, and again from 1885 till 

 1889 the voting was by sent/ in dv lixie, or a col- 

 lective ticket for each department. Members of 

 the active army can not sit in the Chamber or 

 exercise the voting franchise. The majority of 

 the state functionaries are ineligible, and by a 

 special law members of the families that have 

 reigned in France are precluded from sitting in 

 either house. French citizenship and the age of 

 twenty-five years for the Chamber and forty 

 years for the Senate are the only other restric- 

 tions. The National Assembly meets regularly 

 on the second Tuesday in January. The Presi- 

 dent is bound to call an extraordinary session 

 when petitioned by a majority of the members of 

 either house. He has power to do so on his own 

 motion, and also to adjourn the session for a 

 period not to exceed thirty days and not oftener 

 than twice in the same year, and with the con- 

 sent of the Senate he may dissolve the Chamber 

 of Deputies, in which case he must appoint new 

 elections within three months. The National 

 Assembly meets in joint session for the election 

 of a President of the republic or for the revision 

 of the Constitution. The President is elected 

 for seven years by the absolute majority of the 

 National Assembly. The ministers are collect- 

 ively and individually responsible to the Cham- 

 bers, and every act of the President must be 

 countersigned by one or more of the ministers. 

 The President of the Republic is Marie Fran9ois 

 Sadi Carnot, elected Dec. 3, 1887. The ministry 

 was composed at the beginning of 1891 of the 

 following members : President of the Council 

 and Minister of War, Charles do Frevcinet ; 

 Minister of Foreign AtTairs. M. Hibot ; Minister 

 of Finance, M. Rouvier ; Minister of Justice and 

 Public Worship, A. Fallieres; Minister of Public 

 Instruction and the Fine Arts, M. Bourgeois; 

 Minister of the Interior, M. Constans ; Minister 

 of Public Works, M. Yves Gnyot ; Minister of 

 Commerce, Jules Roche ; Minister of Agriculture, 



