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PENNSYLVANIA. 



nine. This double telescope is the invention of 

 Charles B. Boyle, of New York. 



PENNSYLVANIA, a Middle State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Dec. 12, 1787; area, 45,215 square miles; popu- 

 lation, according to the census of 1890, 5,258,- 

 014. Capital, Harrisburg. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Robert E. 

 Pattison, Democrat ; Lieutenant - Governor, 

 Louis A. Watres, Republican ; Secretary of the 

 Commonwealth, William F. Harrity, Democrat; 

 Treasurer, Henry K. Boyer; Auditor-General, 

 Thomas McCamant ; Secretary of Internal Af- 

 fairs, Thomas J. Stewart, Republican ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, D. J. Waller, Jr. ; 

 Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas J. Edge, Re- 

 publican ; Adjutant-General, William McClel- 

 land, Democrat; Attorney-General, W. U. Hen- 

 sel, Democrat ; Insurance Commissioner, J. M. 

 Forster to May 25, and afterward G. B. Luper ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Edward M. 

 Paxson ; Associate Justices, James P. Sterrett, 

 Henry Green, Silas M. Clark, Henry W. Will- 

 iams, James T. Mitchell, and J. B. McCollum. 



Finances. The following was the report, 

 Nov. 30, 1891 : The balance in the State Treasury 

 Nov. 30, 1890, was $4,426,645.45 ; the total re- 

 ceipts during the year were $13,007,161.74. This 

 revenue was derived from the following sources: 

 Lands, purchase money, and interest, $1,948.27; 

 fees for warrants and patents, $994.08 ; tax on 

 corporation stock and Jimited partnerships, $2,- 

 378.911.54; tax on gross receipts (corporations), 

 $096,176.62: tax on gross receipts (notaries pub- 

 lic), $4,402.21 ; tax on gross premiums, $55,040.- 

 68 ; tax on bank stock, $413,177.45 ; tax on net 

 earnings or income, $68,405.44: tax on loans, 

 county and municipal, $122,800.20; tax on 

 loans of private corporations, $1,289.220.41 ; tax 

 on personal property, $1,906.244.67; tax on 

 writs, wills, deeds, etc., $172,443.82 ; tax on col- 

 lateral inheritances, $1,232,766.80; tax on sale 

 of fertilizers, $8,710; foreign insurance com- 

 panies, $395,307.97; eating-house licenses, 

 $11,339.99; retail liquor licenses, $440,249.18; 

 wholesale liquor licenses, $422,479.77 ; brewers' 

 licenses. $144,801.39 ; bottlers' licenses, $94,196.- 

 62 ; retailers' licenses, $552,981.83 ; billiard li- 

 censes, $45.296.24 ; brokers' licenses, $41,224.46 ; 

 auctioneers' and peddlers' licenses. $28,799.62 ; 

 theatre, circus, etc., licenses, $29,832.25 ; pam- 

 phlet laws, $530.45 : bonus on charters, $243,831.- 

 87; accrued interest, $14,531.87; penalties, 

 $121.95; notaries public commissions, $20,200; 

 Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, $192,500; 

 United States Government, $1,825,886.44; an- 

 nuity for right of way, $10,000; escheats, $1,- 

 895.13; fees of public officers, $92,541.10; re- 

 funded cash $7,759.76 ; conscience money, $215 ; 

 miscellaneous, $21,204.66. 



The expenditures include the following items: 

 Expenses of State officials and departments, $2,- 

 006,717.95 ; loans redeemed, $2,538,352 ; interest 

 on loans, $535.553.25 ; premiums on loans re- 

 deemed, $58,591.59 ; charitable institutions, 

 $627,072.85 ; care and treatment of the indigent 

 insane, $509,282 ; penitentiaries, $95.140 ; State 

 Industrial Reformatory, $92.943.50; Reform 

 School, $60,409.18; House of Refuge, $65,000; 

 agriculture, $2,730; second geological survey, 



$5,000 ; State tax on personal property returned 

 to counties. $436,558.53 ; Soldiers' and Sailors' 

 Home, $72,500; Soldiers' Orphans' Schools, $132,- 

 393.01; common schools, $2,289,859.55; Nation- 

 al Guard, $416,689.80 ; disasters by floods. $383,- 

 602.62: monuments at Gettysburg, $10,500; 

 pensions and gratuities, $5,952.75 ; State Col- 

 lege, $24,057.70 ; Philadelphia Academy of Nat- 

 unral Sciences, $25.000; Museum and School of 

 Industrial Art, $10,000; Nautical School ship, 

 $10,750; Gettysburg Memorial Association, $?,- 

 500. Other items brought the total amount of 

 expenditures to $10,453.952.64, leaving a balance, 

 Nov. 30, 1891, of $6.979.854.55. 



The public debt, Nov. 30. 1890, was $12,349.- 

 920.28; on Nov. 30, 1891, it was $9,811,568.^8; 

 total redeemed, $2,538,352. Following is a 

 statement of the funded debt : 3^-per-cent. 

 currency loan $1,642,900; 4-per-cent. currency 

 loan, $6,072,650 ; 5-per-cent. currency loan, $1,- 

 444,800; 6-per-cent. Agricultural Co'llege scrip 

 bond, $500,000; proceeds of sale of experimental 

 farms, $17,000; total interest-bearing debt, $9,- 

 677,350. The unfunded debt and debt upon 

 which interest has ceased was as follows : Relief 

 notes in circulation, $96,143 ; interest certificates 

 unclaimed, $4,448.38 ; interest certificates out- 

 standing, $13,038.54; 6-per-cent. Chambersburg 

 certificates unclaimed, $148.66; domestic credit- 

 or, $25 ; 5-per-cent. bonds upon which interest 

 has ceased, $18,414.70 ; 6-per-cent. bonds upon 

 which interest has ceased, $2,000; total debt 

 bearing no interest, $134,218.28. The statement 

 of debt redeemed is as follows : 3i-per-cent. loans 

 redeemed by purchase, $20,600; 4-per-cent. 

 loans redeemed, $900 ; 4-per-cent. loans re- 

 deemed by purchase, $658.550 ; 5-pcr-cent. loans 

 redeemed by purchase, $1,858,300: relief note 

 of $2 canceled ; total debt redeemed, $2,538,352. 

 Education. The report of the Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction for the year ending June 

 1, 1891, gives the following statistics: Number 

 of school districts, 2,338; number of schools, 

 22,884; number of graded schools, 10,940; num- 

 ber of superintendents, 122 ; number of male 

 teachers, 8,171 ; number of female teachers, 16,- 

 754 ; whole number of teachers, 24,925 ; average 

 salary of male teachers per month, $40.59 ; aver- 

 age salary of female teachers per month, $30.90; 

 average length of school term in months, 7'76 ; 

 number of pupils, 969,506: average number of 

 pupils, 699.937; cost of tuition, $7,261,456.05; 

 cost of building, purchasing, and renting, $2,- 

 892.667.68 ; cost of fuel, contingencies, debt, and 

 interest paid. $3,364,584.25 ; total cost of tuition, 

 building, fuel, and contingencies, $13,578,708.98 ; 

 State appropriation, $2,000,000 ; estimated value 

 of school property in counties, $17,362,027; esti- 

 mated value of school property in cities and bor- 

 oughs having superintendents, $18.475,867.84. 

 For the city of Philadelphia alone the report 

 was as follows: Number of schools. 2,694; num- 

 ber of male teachers, 105 ; number of female 

 teachers, 2,589 ; average salary of male teachers 

 per month, $133.20 ; average salary of female 

 teachers per month, $60.24; number of pupils in 

 school at end of year, 114,306 ; average attend- 

 ance, 107,688; paid for teachers' salaries, $1,- 

 568,124.21 ; paid for houses, additions, and re- 

 pairs, $639,375.18 ; paid for books, fuel, station- 

 ary, and contingencies, $534,894.19. 



