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SOUTH DAKOTA. 



the supervisors acted is violative both of the State 

 and the Federal Constitution. 



The answer of the respondents contained 

 among other points the following : 



That during the year 1882 the petitioner, M. C. 

 Butler, was a Senator, elected by the General Assem- 

 bly of the State of South Carolina, pursuant to the 

 law of said State ; that at that time he was of full age 

 and fully able as a man of intelligence and a lawyer 

 by profession that at that time lie failed to make any 

 objections to the passage of the said law, either direct- 

 ly or indirectly, and that since the passage of the act 

 in 1882 the plaintiff herein has been twice elected by 

 members of the General Assembly, who were elected 

 by voters whose franchise was regulated by the reg- 

 istration law ; that although the said law was passed 

 in 1882, the plaintiff has accepted his election and 

 office and the salary thereof with the full knowledge 

 of the manner of his election, and has acquiesced in 

 the regulation of the said franchise under the registra- 

 tion law so long as and while he was benefited 

 thereby. 



SOUTH DAKOTA, a Western State, admitted 

 to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 77,650 square 

 miles; population, according to the census of 

 1890, 328,808. Capital, Pierre. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Charles H. 

 Sheldon, Republican ; Lieutenant - Governor, 

 Charles N. lierreid ; Secretary of State, Thomas 

 Thorson ; Treasurer, W. W. Taylor; Auditor, J. 

 E. Hippie; Attorney-General, Coe I. Crawford: 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Cortez 

 Salmon ; Commissioner of School and Public 

 Lands, Thomas H. Rath ; Commissioner of La- 

 bor Statistics, Walter McKay; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, E. F. Conklin, H. C. Warner, John 

 R. Brennan ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Dighton Corson ; Associate Justices, Alphonso 

 G. Kellam, Howard G. Fuller. 



Finances. As official reports in Dakota are 

 made biennially, the latest cover the period from 

 July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1894, the fiscal year 1893 

 ending at the latter date. From the report of 

 the Treasurer the following statement is taken : 



The general fund receipts for 1892 were $646,- 

 303.63; for 1893, $611.551.96; balance in treas- 

 ury July 1, 1892, $39,684.46; total receipts, 

 $1,297,540.05; disbursements for 1892, $558,- 

 855.77; for 1893, $553,835.87; total disburse- 

 ments, $1,112,691.64; balance in treasury, July 

 1, 1894. $184,848.41. From the receipts must be 

 deducted $400,000 for funding warrants sold and 

 not entitled to be counted as revenue ; and from 

 the disbursements, $135,000 funding warrants 

 paid which can not be counted an item of State 

 expense. Total in treasury, including balances 

 of other funds, July 1, 1894, $433,026.58. 



From the Auditor's report the following state- 

 ments are collected : The State began business 

 Nov. 5, 1889, with $30,290.07 in the treasury. 

 The first accounting was made to Nov. 30, 1890, 

 at which time a deficiency of $89,947.12 was 

 shown, to meet which bonds were issued to the 

 limit allowed by the Constitution. During this 

 period the Legislature held its first session. The 

 second accounting, June 30, 1892, showed a de- 

 ficiency of $95,315.54. The second session of 

 the Legislature occurred before this time. On 

 June 30, 1893, after the third session of the 

 Legislature, a deficit of $99,565.44 was shown ; 

 this and the deficiency of the previous year 

 made a total deficiency of $194,880.98. To meet 



this the Board of Assessment and Equalization 

 levied a 2-mill tax. Of this there had been col- 

 lected up to July 1, 1894, the sum of $146,549.90. 

 Of this amount $100,000 was paid into the gen- 

 eral fund toward paying up funding warrants. 

 In the year ending June 30, 1894, the receipts 

 exceeded the expenditures by $1,934.85. The 

 amount of funding warrants 'outstanding June 

 30, 1894, was $220,000. 



The equalized valuation on which assessment 

 for the fiscal year 1894 was made was $8,000,000 

 less than the year before. The assessed valua- 

 tion of all property for 1892, as equalized by the 

 Board of Assessment and Equalization, was 

 $127,377,990; for 1893 $137,035,974; and for 

 1894, $126,868,344. For 1893, on all property 

 that pays tax direct to the State a levy of 32 

 mills was made. The average levy in 'the 52 

 organized counties of the State for State and 

 county purposes is 15*73 mills. The amount 

 of delinquent State taxes July 1, 1894, was 

 $371.653.46. 



Insurance. The Auditor gives the following 

 statistics for the insurance department, showing 

 the business done for the year ending Dec. 31, 

 1893, by the foreign and home fire, life, and 

 miscellaneous companies : Risks written in 1893, 

 $46,574,562 ; premiums. $903,573.66 ; losses paid, 

 $448,590.67. 



School and Public Lands. The following is 

 from the Governor's message in January, 1895 : 



The State owned on Jan. 1, 1893, of common-school 

 land 2,721,494*76 acres, of which there has been sold 

 during the past two years 41,146-03 acres. Of these, 

 32,125-5 acres were sold in 1893 and 9,026-53 acres 

 were sold in 1894. There has been sold since state- 

 hood 143,025-5 acres, amounting to $1,986,205.47; of 

 this amount $1,391,107.98 remains as deferred pay- 

 ment upon which there was due in interest on the 1st 

 day of this month $83,466.48. The 41,146-03 acres 

 sold during the past two years brought $598,886.76, 

 of which amount $155,645.24 was paid at the time of 

 sale, leaving $443,241.52 as deferred payment. There 

 has been received from the use of school lands during 

 the past two years $52,128.04. 



Besides the two sections of lands in each town- 

 ship of the State, South Dakota has 632,000 

 acres granted for other purposes. Of this 

 amount 491,424 acres have been selected. 



Business. There have been incorporated 

 during the last two years under the laws of the 

 State 378 domestic incorporations, 146 of which 

 were for benevolent and charitable purposes and 

 232 for profit. 



During 1894 23 State banks were incorporated, 

 4 failed, and there were 4 voluntary liquidations. 

 The bank resources on June 12, 1893, were 

 $6,583,421 ; on June 12, 1894, $6,650,226. The 

 average reserve held on the first date was 33 -42 

 per cent., which is 18'98 per cent, more than the 

 State law requires, and 23'98 per cent, more than 

 is required of national banks. 



Education. The Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction reports for 1894 the number of per- 

 sons of school age to be 105,175 ; the total enroll- 

 ment in all schools, 90,855 ; the number of 

 teachers employed, 4,982 ; the amount paid to 

 teachers, $923,266: the number of schools, 

 3.454; receipts for maintenance of all schools, 

 $2,233,427; disbursements for all schools. $1,- 

 792,124; indebtedness of all schools, $1,566,916. 



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