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$250,000 for sewers, $125,000 for bridges, and $125,000 

 for streets. 



Assenting to the provisions of the act of Congress 

 appropriating money for the more complete endow- 

 ment and support of colleges of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts in the several States. 



Revising and codifying the State insurance laws. 



To declare unlawful all trusts, pools, contracts, 

 arrangements, and combinations in restraint of trade, 

 production, manufacture, and sale. 



On Aug. 7, Gov. Buchanan issued his procla- 

 mation calling an extra session of the General 

 Assembly to meet on Aug. 31. The chief cause 

 for this action was the disturbances in East Ten- 

 nessee, arising out of the employment of State 

 convicts in the mines in competition with free la- 

 bor, an account of which is given elsewhere. 

 The leading subjects proposed by the Governor 

 for legislative action related to the abolition of 

 the convict lease system, or such modification 

 thereof as would prevent the employment of con- 

 victs in mines, and thereby meet the demands of 

 the belligerent miners. Early in the session a 

 committee was appointed to confer with the 

 Penitentiary lessees, and ascertain whether they 

 would consent to any modification of their lease 

 which would require the State convicts to be 

 worked at certain mines where no other labor 

 should be employed, and whether they would 

 sublet a portion of the convicts to be used in 

 constructing a State penitentiary. The result of 

 these negotiations was not wholly satisfactory to 

 the legislators. After prolonged and excited 

 discussion the session came to an end on Sept. 

 21 without any action on this subject, the legis- 

 lators refusing to entail upon the State the ex- 

 pense of building a new penitentiary such as 

 the abolition of the lease system would necessi- 

 tate. In addition to refusing the demands of 

 the miners, the Assembly enacted several laws 

 designed to prevent further outbreaks by them. 

 Authority was given to the Governor to sum- 

 mon and use the sheriff of each county with a 

 posse of as many men as the Governor shall des- 

 ignate, and to call out the State Guard of Ten- 

 nessee whenever he shall deem it necessary for 

 the purpose of repelling invasion or suppress- 

 ing insurrections, mobs, and like unlawful as- 

 semblies, whether existing or imminent. He 

 may keep such force in the employ of the State 

 as long as a necessity therefor exists, but such 

 authority shall continue only until the close of 

 the next regular session of the General As- 

 sembly. By another act it was declared a felony 

 for any person to hinder, interrupt, or interfere 

 with the working of convicts or work-house pris- 

 oners, wherever they may be, or to act as a leader 

 of any mob or company of men who shall so in- 

 terfere, the punishment being imprisonment 

 from one to seven years. The sum of $25.000 

 was appropriated for the support and mainte- 

 nance of the State militia in case their services 

 should be needed. 



At this session an act was also passed redis- 

 tricting the State for members of the State Sen- 

 ate and House of Representatives. It was en- 

 acted that all ballots hereafter cast in elections 

 shall be of plain white paper, seven inches long 

 and three inches wide. It was made unlawful 

 to place any picture, sign, color, mark, or insig- 

 nia thereon, except the names of the candidates 

 and the office. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To compel all persons, firms, corporations and com- 

 panies engaged in constructing railroads or in min- 

 ing or manufacturing to settle with their employes at 

 least once in thirty days, and to pay them in lawful 

 money of the United States. 



To prohibit prize fighting, sparring matches, and 

 other brutal sports or exhibitions, and to punish par- 

 ticipants therein. 



Creating a State Board of World's Fair managers. 



Education. The following public-school sta- 

 tistics, covering the school year ending June 30, 

 1890. are reported by the State Superintendent : 

 Children of school age (between six and twenty- 

 one years), white males, 261,796; white females, 

 248,793 ; colored males. 88.372 ; colored females, 

 87,349; total, 686,310 ; pupils enrolled, 420,104: 

 average daily attendance, 296,765 ; average length 

 of school year, in days, 86 ; teachers employed, 

 males, 4,827 ; females, 3,084; average monthly 

 wages of teachers, $31.24; number of white 

 schools, 5,395 ; colored schools, 1,536 ; school- 

 houses, 6,048 ; erected during the year, 265 ; 

 value of school property, $2,830,319.61. 



The financial statement for the year is as fol- 

 lows : Amount on hand July 1, 1889, $620,752.29 ; 

 received from the State, $128,806.87; from the 

 counties, $1,206,926.26; from other sources, $82,- 

 072.92; total receipts, $2,038,558.35. Expendi- 

 tures : Teachers' salaries, $1,078,265.63 ; school 

 sites, buildings, and repairs, $77,256.99 ; furni- 

 ture, etc., $36,855.44; other expenses, $106.- 

 982.61; total expenses, $1,300,351.67; balance 

 on hand, July 1, 1890, $738.206.68. During the 

 year 1,069 private schools reported 1.447 teach- 

 ers, 40,683 pupils enrolled, and an average at- 

 tendance of 28,378. 



At the State University the attendance for the 

 year ending 1890 was as follow : Academic De- 

 partment, 251 ; Law Department (established 

 in February), 8 ; Medical and Dental Department, 

 251; total, 510. 



Charities. At the Eastern Hospital for the 

 Insane there were 232 patients on Dec. 19, 

 1888 ; 182 were admitted during the two years 

 ensuing, and 163 were discharged, leaving 251 

 on Dec. 19, 1890. The total receipts for the 

 two years were $107.899.98, and the total ex- 

 pense $100,075.51. At the Western Hospital 

 there were received on Nov. 22, 1889. from the 

 Central Hospital 156 patients, being the first in- 

 stallment of patients received at this institution, 

 the buildings for which were then in an un- 

 finished condition. Up to Dec. 19, 1890, there 

 had been received 128 other patients, and 35 had 

 been discharged, leaving 249 in the hospital on 

 the latter date. The expenses up to Dec. 19. 

 1890, were $52.419.45, and the receipts $44.- 

 422.02. The Central Hospital, at Nashville, 

 contained 432 patients on Dec. 19. 1888: 

 during the two years following 289 were 

 admitted and 335 discharged (including 15(5 

 transferred to the Western Hospital), leaving 

 386 remaining on Drc. 19, 1890. The receipts 

 were $150,927.95,'and the expenses $152,205.07. 

 On March 13, 1891, the buildings at this hospital 

 used for the male patients were entirely de- 

 stroyed by fire, several of the inmates losing 

 their lives. Those who escaped and could not 

 he accommodated at the other buildings, being 

 about 100 in number, were transferred to the 

 Western Hospital. 



