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TENNESSEE, a Southern State, admitted 

 to the Union June 1, 1796 ; area, 42,050 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 105,602 in 1800 ; 

 261, 727 in 1810; 422,771 in 1820; 681,904 in 

 1830 ; 829,210 in 1840 ; 1,002,717 in 1850 ; 

 1,109,801 in 1860 ; 1,258,520 in 1870 ; 1,542,359 

 in 1880; and 1,767,518 in 1890. Capital, 

 Nashville. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, John P. 

 Buchanan, Democrat ; Secretary of State, Charles 

 A. Miller ; Treasurer and Insurance Commis- 

 sioner, M. F. House ; Comptroller, J. W. Allen ; 

 Attorney-General, G. W. Pickle; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, W. 1$. Garrett ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics, and 

 Mines, D. G. Godwin ; Chief Justice of "the 

 Supreme Court, Peter Turney ; Associate Justices, 

 W. C. Caldwell, B. L. Snodgrass, II. H. Lorton, 

 and Benjamin J. Lea. After Judge Turney 

 ' became Governor, Judge Lorton was made Chief- 

 Justice and J. S. Wilkes elected to the vacancy. 



Finances. The amount received from the 

 usual sources of revenue for the past two years is 

 $3,493,862.89, an increase of $313,387.55 over 

 the receipts during the two years preceding. 

 The expenses have been raised by the increase in 

 the appropriation for the payment of Confederate 

 soldiers' pensions, in those to the industrial 

 school and the Peabody Normal School, and by 

 the ordinary growth of State institutions. 

 The new appropriations were : Confederate 

 Soldiers' Home, $35,000 ; improvement of water- 

 ways, $5,000 ; Capitol improvement, $30,000 ; 

 enumeration of voters, $17,180.79 ; total, 

 $87,180.79. 



The following were the expenses incurred on 

 account of the labor troubles at the mines : on 

 account of arresting convicts, for the ultimate 

 payment of which the State looks to the lessees, 

 $14,616.82 ; on account of military in the 

 field, salaries, transportation, maintenance, 

 $107,205.94. There is claimed to be due to 

 the State from lessees on rental, which has been 

 withheld and is now in litigation, $1 14,000. 



The State owed on borrowed money, Dec. 20, 

 1890, the sum of $459,797.10, which has all been 

 paid. The State is in debt $59,000, and but for 

 the expenses of the mining insurrections and the 

 loss or delaying of the money due by the lessees 

 of convicts, would have a surplus in the 

 treasury. 



An act passed by the Forty-seventh General 

 Assembly authorized the sale of fifteen-year 4 

 per cent, bonds, and with the proceeds of such 

 sale the retirement of 5 and 6 per cent, bonds 

 issued under act of 1883. The board, acting 

 under this law, sold the bonds, payment being 

 made by installments. When the trade has been 

 fully carried out, the State will save $24,294 

 annually on interest account. 



Under the direction of the Forty-seventh Gen- 

 eral Assembly, expressed by the act approved 

 March 25, 1891, the direct tax levied by the 

 Federal Government in 1861, and refunded to 

 the several States, has been distributed to all the 



proper claimants who have made application for 

 it. The amount received from the United States 

 Government was $402,908.58. Of this amount 

 $368,699.49 has been distributed, leaving a res- 

 idue of $84.209.09. 



Education. The entire school population is 

 697,662, of whom 172,954 are colored. This is 

 an increase of the white school population over 

 1890 of 14,110, or 2.7 per cent., and a decrease 

 of the colored 2,767, or a loss of 1.6 per cent. 

 The net gain is 11,352, or 1.7 per cent. The 

 enrollment was, white, 380,456 ; colored, 107,- 

 051 ; total, 487,507. The daily average attend- 

 ance was : white, 274,482 ; colored, 75,001 ; 

 total, 349,383. This shows a marked increase 

 over the figures of 1890. The increase in enroll- 

 ment is 67,403, or 16 per cent. The increase in 

 average attendance is 52,718, or 18 per cent. 

 The average time during which the schools were 

 open was 96 days. 



Only 2,177 of the 8,612 teachers in the State, 

 or 25 percent., have remained more than one 

 term in the same school. In 23 counties all the 

 schools are completely graded, in 56 some are 

 graded or partially so, in 11 none are graded, 

 and 6 are not reported in this respect. 



The legislature appropriated $1,500 for teach- 

 ers' institutes, and $2,000 was received from the 

 Peabody fund for the same purpose. 



The enrollment in the Peabody Normal Col- 

 lege in 1891-92 was 470. The registration is now 

 500, of whom 275 are residents of Tennessee. 

 The Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund 

 are spending on this school annually in the way 

 of scholarships and salaries about $84,000. 



In addition to the college registration proper, 

 there are now enrolled in the Winthrop Model 

 School 75 children. This school represents the 

 work done in the first eight years of the public 

 school course, and employs 2 regular teachers 

 and an assistant. 



The biennial report of the trustees of the State 

 University, at Knoxville, shows continued growth 

 in the institution. A new building of brick and 

 stone, four stories high, has been erected for a 

 science hall and gymnasium, and two additional 

 dwellings for professors. No appropriations were 

 made by the legislature, the funds for building 

 having been received from rents, the sale of 

 lands, and savings from current expenses. 

 $149,345 has been thus saved and used in per- 

 manent improvements during the last six years. 



Confederate Soldiers. The home has been 

 completed and was formally opened on May 12. 

 It has accommodations for 125. The pension law 

 has been in operation two years. 



The amount appropriated by the last General 

 Assembly for the payment of the pension roll was 

 $60,000 per annum. 



Charitable Institutions. The School for the 

 Deaf and Dumb has 142 pupils. A fine building 

 has been constructed with the appropriation 

 made by the Forty-seventh General Assembly. 

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The School for the Blind has 97 in attendance. 

 By act of 1891 there was 'appropriated for its 



