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commissioned officer in any of said wars, and who 

 received his commission by direct act of one of the 

 13 original colonies, or of Vermont, or of the Conti- 

 nental Congress, or of one of the States, or of the 

 United States; Provided, That such propositus re- 

 mained always loyal to his cause and was either killed 

 or died in service, or was honorably discharged there- 

 from ; and Provided, That when the claim to eligi- 

 bility is based upon the service of an ancestor in the 

 " militia," it must be satisfactorily shown that such 

 ancestor was actually called into the service of one 

 of said 13 original colonies, or of Vermont, or of the 

 Continental Congress, or of one of the States, or of 

 the United States, and performed garrison or field 

 duty ; and Provided, That when the claim to eligi- 

 bility is based upon the service of an ancestor as a 

 " naval or marine officer," it must be satisfactorily 

 shown that such service was regularly performed in 

 the Continental navy, or in the navy of one of the 

 13 original colonies, or of Vermont, or of one of the 

 States, or of the United States, or on an armed vessel, 

 other than a merchant ship, which sailed under let- 

 ters of marque and reprisal, and that such ancestor 

 was duly enrolled in the ship's company as a com- 

 missioned officer. Such service must be satisfactorily 

 shown to have been performed in one of the follow- 

 ino- wars: The War of the Revolution, between April 

 19, 1775, and April 19, 1783; the War with Tripoli, 

 between June 10, 1801, and June 4, 1805 : The War 

 of 1812, between June 18, 1812, and Feb. 18, 1815; 

 and the Mexican War, between April 9, 1846, and 

 July 4, 1848. 



The insignia include a badge that is of gold 

 and is pendant from the ribbon by a ring and a 

 laurel wreath of gold. The obverse shows a red 

 enameled star of eight points, each star point 

 edged and divided by a line of gold, and between 

 the star points rays of gold, joined, and ending 

 in a point, and upon the star an eagle with ex- 

 tended wings, of raised and chased gold. The re- 

 verse shows the star and rays the same, and in 

 the center within a band of 'blue enamel edged 

 with gold, and bearing in gold the motto " Deus 

 et Libertas," an anchor and crossed swords. 

 The ribbon is of ribbed and watered silk, of buff, 

 edged with red and blue. The officers are : 

 Commander, David Banks ; Vice-Commander, 

 James H. Morgan : Secretary, Frank M. Avery. 



Literature. Two monthly journals devoted 

 to the interests of these various societies came 

 into existence on Sept. 1, 1894. " The Spirit of 

 '76," edited by William PI. Brearley, is issued in 

 New York, and the " American Historical Reg- 

 ister," edited by Charles H. Browning, is issued 

 in Philadelphia. 



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 ; Secretary of the Commonwealth, 

 William F. Harrity ; Treasurer, Samuel M. Jack- 

 son, who succeeded J. W. Morrison, May 14 ; 

 Auditor General, D. McM. Gregg; Attorney- 

 General, William U. Hensel; Adjutant General, 

 Walter W. Greenland; Secretary of Internal 

 Affairs, T. J. Stewart ; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Nathan C. Schaeffer; Insurance 

 Commissioner. George B. Luper ; Superintendent 

 of Banking, Charles H. Krumbhaar ; Secretary 

 of Agriculture. Thomas J. Edge; Dairy and 



Food Commissioner, Eastburn Rceder; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, James P. Sterrett ; 

 Associate Justices. Henry Green, Henry W. Wil- 

 liams, James T. Mitchell, J. B. McColluin, John 

 Dean, and D. Newlin Fell. 



Finances. The receipts for the year ending 

 Nov. 30 aggregated $12,873,786.82, a decrease of 

 $378,941.06 compared with those of 1893. The 

 corporations paid on their capital stock about 

 $3,600,000, an increase of $80,000. The gross 

 receipts tax amounted to $775,000, an increase 

 of $233,000. The receipts from tax on bank 

 stock decreased from $530,000 in 1893 to $511,- 

 000 this year. The tax on corporation loans in- 

 creased from $769,000 to $1,244,000, while the 

 revenues from the tax on municipal loans fell 

 off from $231,000 to $136,000. There was a de- 

 crease of the receipts from the tax on personal 

 property from $3,502,000 in 1893 to $2.386,000 

 this year. There was realized this year from the 

 various kinds of licenses $1,366,000, an increase 

 of about $3,000 over 1893. The receipts from 

 mercantile tax fell off from $582,000 last year to 

 $540,000 this year. On the other hand, the 

 revenues from wholesale liquor licenses increased 

 about $35,000. 



The tax on collateral inheritance fell off from 

 $1,124,000 in 1893 to $869,000 this year. The 

 average the past eight years has not varied much 

 from $1,000,000. The receipts from the tax on 

 gross premiums collected by the Auditor General 

 were increased from $463,000 to $495,000. The 

 receipts from the tax on gross premiums col- 

 lected by foreign insurance companies decreased 

 from $474,000 to $354,000. 



The expenses of the government were about 

 $150,000 less this year than in 1893. The total 

 expense in 1894 amounted to about $2,038,000. 

 As the Legislature did not meet this year the 

 State saved about $700,000 on this account. 

 But this gain was nearly made up by the $625,- 

 000 expended on the new executive and library 

 building and the improvements and alterations 

 to the hall of the House of Representatives and 

 the Senate chamber. 



There was distributed among the school dis- 

 tricts of the State last year $5,769,147.27, an ex- 

 cess of $904,000 compared with the amount paid 

 the previous year. There was returned in 1893 

 to the counties $3,018,000 of the revenues col- 

 lected from the tax on personal property. This 

 year the amount only reached $1,050,000. This 

 large discrepancy is accounted for by the fact 

 that the State owes the counties about $1,800,000. 

 The cost of the National Guard this year was 

 $412.000, against $496,000 in 1893. There was 

 expended in 1894 $1,468,000 in redeeming and 

 purchasing loans and paying interest, against 

 $168,000 the previous year. 



The general fund receipts were $11.894,495.07, 

 and the sinking fund $979.271.75. The balance 

 in the genera) fund. Nov. 30, was $5,014,942.18; 

 balance in the sinking fund, $66,383.53. The 

 payments during the year amounted to $13,122,- 

 769.18, of which amount $11.820.129.68 was out 

 of the general fund and $1,802,639.50 out of the 

 sinking fund. 



Valuations. The aggregate value of all 

 property in the State taxable for county pur- 

 poses is shown by the returns to be $2,545,500.- 

 738, an increase of $38,433,801 over 1893. The 



