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cured by a lien upon the farm. Productive as 

 the lands of Manitoba are, the industrious 

 fanner would in a few years be well-to-do for 

 one of his class, but for the low price of wheat 

 and the high freight rates on the railways, 

 which leave him little or no profit. This cir- 

 cumstance probably is the cause that immigra- 

 tion shows no tendency to increase. The num- 

 ber of immigrants settling in Manitoba during 

 1894 was estimated at 5,858. The total for points 

 west of Lake Superior for the year was about 

 11,000; for 1893, 11,366; and for 1892, 12,614 



Keewatin. The district of Keewatin, extend- 

 ing north of the provinces of Ontario and Mani- 

 toba to Hudson Bay, and comprising about 282,- 

 000 square miles though practically without a 

 white population, and but sparsely inhabited by 

 Indians has, nevertheless, a Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or who rules the district under the authority of 

 the Department of the Interior of the Dominion 

 Government. Lieut.-Gov. Schultz, of Manitoba, is 

 also Lieutenant-Governor of Keewatin, and in his 

 latter capacity he reports to the Department of the 

 Interior any matters of public interest respect- 

 ing the district. In his last published report to 

 the department he directs attention to the con- 

 tinued migration of the Indians from the sea- 

 coast inland, and to the agricultural capabilities 

 of the height of land between Lake Winnipeg 

 and James Bay, where alone in Keewatin are 

 found deciduous trees of the character of soft 

 maple, indicating a soil rich enough and a cli- 

 mate sufficiently mild to permit of the growth 

 of the hardier cereals and vegetables. But the 

 most important fact in the report refers to a 

 recent tour through the district of Mr. Tyrrell, 

 of the Canadian Geological Survey. His route 

 passed through one of Dr. Dawson's regions, 

 known as " Unexplored Canada," and his survey 

 has added materially to the knowledge of the 

 geography, geology, fauna, and flora of the dis- 

 trict, He determined also the possibly very im- 

 portant fact that at the- head of 200 miles of 

 secure deep-sea navigation of Chesterfield inlet 

 there are, after 2 rapids near its mouth, 200 

 miles more of steamer navigation on Tyrrell's 

 river to points where the schists of Htironian 

 rocks, in a region supposed to be wholly Lauren- 

 tian, promise gold, silver, and copper. 



Hudson Bay Company. The Hudson Bay 

 Company, now in the two hundred and twenty- 

 fifth year of its existence, though exercising a 

 jurisdiction much more limited than previous 

 to the sale of its vast domain to the Government 

 of Canada, is still in possession of a valuable 

 and extensive territory, and is a great com- 

 mercial company. When the transfer of its 

 territory was made to the Dominion, in addi- 

 tion to the money consideration the company 

 was granted one twentieth of the fertile belt of 

 Manitoba and the Northwest of Canada in all, 

 about 7,000,000 acres. At the meeting of the 

 board of directors at Montreal in the summer of 

 1894, Sir Donald Smith, Governor of the Com- 

 pany, stated that the profits of the trade in furs 

 during the preceding year amounted to $229,- 

 564. The entire number of furs and skins sold 

 by the company in London in 1893 was about 

 1,250,000, of which 11,384 were bear skins, 56,224 

 beaver, 21,000 fox, 8,618 otter, 403 seal, 1,551 

 wolf, 99,314 marten, and 934,540 musquash. 



MARYLAND, a Middle Atlantic State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 April 28, 1788 ; area, 12,210 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census,. 



THE NEW SEAL OF MARYLAND. 



was 317,728 in 1790 ; 341,548 in 1800 ; 380,546 in 

 1810; 407,350 in 1820 ; 447,040 in 1830; 470,019 

 in 1840 ; 583,034 in 1850 ; 687.049 in 1860 ; 780,- 

 894 in 1870 ; 934,945 in 1880 ; and 1,042,390 in 

 1890. Capital, Annapolis. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Frank Brown, 

 Democrat ; Secretary of State, E. W. Le Compte, 

 and after Nov. 11, Edwin Gott; Attorney- 

 General, John P. Poe ; Comptroller, Marion De 

 Kalb Smith; Treasurer, Spencer C.Jones; In- 

 surance Commissioner, J. F. C. Talbot, and 

 later, Thomas J. Keating; State Tax Commis- 

 sioner, Frank T. Shaw ; Adjutant General, H. 

 Kyd Douglas; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, E. B. Prettyman ; Chief Justice, Rich- 

 ard H. Alvey ; Clerk of the Court of Appeals, 

 J. Frank Ford. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature be- 

 gan its session on Jan. 3, and adjourned on April 

 2. Politically its composition was as follows: 

 Senate 6 Republicans, 20 Democrats ; House 

 24 Republicans, 67 Democrats. Among the bills 

 that became laws were several regulating the 

 oyster industry, several local prohibitory liquor 

 laws, and many game laws. Other acts of the 

 session were as follow : 



Providing for the establishment of a Lloyd's insur- 

 ance department. 



Regulating the sale of liquors by distillers, brewers, 

 wholesale dealers, jobbers, and bottlers. 



Providing for the site of Western Maryland Col- 

 lege. 



Abolishing the sweating system. 



Relating to a legal sufficiency of evidence. 



Providing penalties for killing or detaining carrier 

 pigeons. 



Providing for the incorporation of any trading or 

 mercantile business. 



Exempting from tax new manufacturing plants 

 St. Mary's County. 



Amending the law relating to husband and wile 



Regulating the acquisition and holding of property 

 by the Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and his j 

 cessors. 



Prohibiting employment of child labor. 



