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WISCONSIN. 



WISCONSIN, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union May 29, 1848 ; area, 50,040 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was: 305,391 in 1850; 775,- 

 881 in 1860; 1,054,670 in 1870; 1.315,497 in 

 1880 ; and 1,688,880 in 1890. Capital, Madison. 

 Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, George W. 

 Peck, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles 

 Jonas ; Secretary of State, T. J. Cunningham ; 

 Treasurer, John Hunner ; Attorney-General, J. L. 

 O'Connor; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, 0. E.Weils ; Insurance Commissioner, W. M. 

 Root; Railroad Commissioner, T. Thompson. 



With the exception of the annual treasury 

 report, all Wisconsin reports are made biennially. 

 The latest reports, with the exception of the 

 joint report of the Secretary of State and State 

 Treasurer, therefore cover only the years 1891 

 and 1892. 



Finances. The following is a statement of 

 the amounts received and paid out by the State 

 Treasurer during the year ending Sept. 30, 1893, 

 the total amount received being $2,249,542.96: 

 On hand Sept. 30, 1892, $640,228.12; received 

 from railroad companies, $1,156,260.75 ; tele- 

 graph companies, $9,657.62 ; telephone compa- 

 nies, $11,705.71; sleeping-car companies, $1,- 

 193.04; from counties for maintaining insane, 

 $139,723.27; from counties for Industrial School 

 for Boys, $8,511.81; fifth normal school, $9,985.- 

 59 : free high schools, $49,927.95 ; suit tax from 

 counties, $6,599; peddler licenses, $15,228.17; 

 insurance licenses, $122,651.27; from United 

 Slates for Veterans' Home, $14,711.94; from 

 loan and trust companies, $1,025.85; from 

 boom companies, $4,187.66 : from office fees, 

 $39,828.36 ; from interest on general fund, 

 $12,569.08; from all other sources, $5,587.77. 

 There was paid out from the general fund $1,- 

 786,501.55, as follows: For salaries and perma- 

 nent appropriations, $195,438.42 ; for charitable 

 and penal institutions, $368,247.84; for legisla- 

 tive expenses, including second special session, 

 1892, $154,503.95; for clerk hire, $56,174.53; for 

 labor about Capitol, $49,067.96 ; for special ap- 

 propriations, 213,920.98; for National Guard, 

 $82,459.79; for other expenses, $416,178.40; 

 balance in treasury, $463,041.41. The invest- 

 ment of trust funds is as follows : School fund, 

 $3,380,672.28, an increase of $22,169.78 during 

 the year; university fund, $229,922; Agricul- 

 tural College fund, $299,438.04 ; Normal School 

 fund, $1,811,325.11 ; drainage fund, $2,316 ; total, 

 $5,723,673.43. 



The total receipts during the year from these 

 and other trust funds was $1,958,559.12; the 

 disbursements were $1,843,244.32; balance on 

 hand Sept. 30, 1892, $163,341.37; balance in 

 treasury Sept. 30, 1893, $278,656.17. 



The bonded debt of the State, Jan. 1, 1893, 

 was represented by certificates of indebtedness 

 as follows: To the school fund, $1,563,700: to 

 the Normal School fund, $515,700; to the Uni- 

 versity fund, $111,000; to the Agricultural 

 College fund, $60,600 ; total bonded debt, $2,- 

 251,000. 



Taxation. The following figures are taken 

 from the report of the Secretary of State for the 

 years 1891 and 1892. The value of all the per- 

 sonal property in 1891 was $107,120,453 ; of city 



and village lots, $218,193,453; of other lands, 

 $265,590,938; total valuation, $591,604,854. The 

 value of all personal property in 1892 was $119,- 

 724,782 ; of city and village lots, $203,405,727 ; 

 of other lands', $330,869,491 ; total valuation, 

 $654,000,000. The tax assessed in 1891 by the 

 State Board of Assessors was $1.328,983.96, of 

 which $988,886.15 was the State tax of 1-58511059 

 mill on each dollar of valuation. The tax as- 

 sessed in 1891 by the county boards of super- 

 visors and the town assessors on counties, towns, 

 cities, and villages was $13,665,343.20. The tux 

 assessed by the State Board of Assessors in 1892 

 was $1,319,943.22, of which $1,018,720 was the 

 State tax of 1-557676 mill on each dollar of val- 

 uation. The amount of internal-revenue tax for 

 1893 was $4,228,740.35, an increase of $434,041 

 over 1892. 



Banks. The number of State banks organ- 

 ized under the banking law doing business July 

 4, 1892, was 110, with an aggregate capital of 

 $6,286,900. 



Education. The report of the State Super- 

 intendent of Instruction to Jan. 1, 1893, shows 

 \he number of children of school age during the 

 last year covered by the report to be 618,884; 

 number enrolled in public schools, 362,064 ; num- 

 ber of free high schools, 182 ; number of pupils 

 enrolled therein, 11,022 ; number of schoolhouses, 

 6,570; number of teachers, 12,355. The receipts 

 for common schools were $6.150,722.83; the ex- 

 penditures, $4,326,327.54. The receipts for nor- 

 mal schools, in which 2,397 pupils were instruct- 

 ed, were $181,836.13, all of which, except $47,- 

 422.75 paid for buildings, was expended for their 

 maintenance. 



A tract of land adjacent to the State Univer- 

 sity was bought during 1893 for its use, the 

 Legislature appropriating $25.000 for the pur- 

 pose. A building for the College of Law was 

 completed at a cost of $75,000, and also an arm- 

 ory building, at a cost of $100,000. This build- 

 ing contains the largest college gymnasium in 

 America. In January Charles Kendall Adams 

 was inaugurated president of the university. 

 The number of students enrolled during 1893 

 was 1,287, an increase of 195 over 1892. The 

 income of the university during 1892 was $268,- 

 510.60; the disbursements were $268,187.02, of 

 which $36,656.74 was for the expenses of the ex- 

 periment station. 



The Dairy School accommodates only 100 

 students, and many applications for admission 

 are refused. The school uses 45,000 pounds 

 of milk daily. After the separation of the 

 cream from the milk in butter making, the skim 

 milk is sterilized and returned to the farm from 

 which it was received. The annual dairy prod- 

 ucts of the State are valued at about $30.- 

 000.000. The number of pounds of butter made 

 in 1891 is reported as 25,791,513 ; of cheese, 54,- 

 365.220. 



Township Libraries. The township library 

 law was passed in 1887. It authorizes each 

 town treasurer to withhold 10 cents for each 

 person of school age to secure a library fund, 

 which is to be expended by the town clerk, 

 under certain restrictions, for a township library. 

 The books of this library are distributed among 

 the several districts of the township in propor- 

 tion to the amount withheld from each. The 



