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VIRGINIA. 



in 1860; 1.225,163 in 1870; 1,512,565 in 1880; 

 and 1,655,980 in 1890. Capital, Richmond. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during 1894: Governor, Charles T. Oter- 

 sall, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, Robert C. 

 Kent; Secretary of the Commonwealth, Joseph 

 T. Lawless ; Attorney-General, R. Taylor Scott ; 

 Auditor, Morton Marye ; Second Auditor, Josiah 

 Ryland, Jr.; Treasurer, A. W. Harman; Adju- 

 tant General, Charles J. Anderson ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, John E. Massie ; Presi- 

 dent of the Court of Appeals, James Keith; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Thomas White- 

 head; Railroad Commissioner, James C. Hill. 



Finances. The annual report of the Treas- 

 urer for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1894, 

 shows a balance on 'hand, Oct. 1, 1893, of $664,- 

 808.89. The total balance in the treasury to the 

 credit of the several funds the Commonwealth, 

 the Literary fund, the interest on the public 

 debt, the sinking fund, and the Miller fund 

 was $603,812.54. During the fiscal year 1893-'94 

 the Treasurer received $3,747,903.000. 



The report of the Second Auditor shows that 

 since the passage of the act of Jan. 31, 1894. ex- 

 tending the time in which the holders of old 

 securities could refund them, under provisions 

 of the act of Feb. 20, 1892, there has been funded 

 of principal $652,495.66, and of interest $391,- 

 882.97, making a total of $1,044,298.63; new 

 bonds issued, $712,725.61. This leaves a com- 

 paratively small amount of the debt outstand- 

 ing, viz., $1,271.223.62; with interest amount- 

 ing to $1,831,753.97, aggregate, $3,102,977.59. 

 This includes bonds and interest held by the 

 United States Government, against which the 

 State claims an ample offset, and also sundry 

 bonds with interest that were issued to sev- 

 eral works of internal improvement and can 

 not be funded, and large amounts of old arrear- 

 ages of interest which never will be called for, 

 as well as bonds and coupons that are supposed 

 to be lost. The aggregate of the new debt is 

 estimated at $17,373,243.26, but it will never ex- 

 ceed $18,250,000. The entire debt of the State 

 (new and old) is $24,581,581.40, on which the 

 annual interest is $554,947.44. This does not in- 

 clude the bonds held by institutions of learning, 

 which aggregate $2,466,455.85, with annual in- 

 terest amounting to $146,331.32, these having 

 been put on the same footing with regular ap- 

 propriations. During the year 1894 the com- 

 missioners of the sinking fund purchased $337,- 

 000 of century bonds at a cost of $199,291. 



Internal Revenue. The report of the Com- 

 missioner of Internal Revenue shows that during 

 the fiscal year Virginia paid $2,391,713.24. She 

 is the largest exporting tobacco State in the 

 Union. The average quantity of tobacco used in 

 Virginia in the manufacture of cigars is 19'44 

 pounds per 1,000, and for cigarettes 8'41 pounds 

 per 1,000. There are 265 factories in Virginia. 

 a large increase over last year, and 103,482,- 

 527 cigars were manufactured out of 1,527,589 

 pounds of tobacco, and 802,929,195 cigarettes 

 were manufactured out of 3.309,931 pounds of 

 tobacco. The amount of stamps required for 

 sales on all sorts of tobacco, including chewing 

 tobacco and snuff, was $1,584.101.28 in 1893-'9<i. 

 The tax on exported cigars is $3 per 1,000, and on 

 cigarettes 50 cents per 1.000. 



The number of distilleries registered and op- 

 erated in Virginia during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1894, was 1,834 ; and of taxable gallons 

 gauged during that time, 1,180.383. The amount 

 of assessments was $64,459.95. Under the pro- 

 vision of the act of Aug. 28, 1894, the tax on 

 distilled liquors was increased from 90 cents to 

 $1.10 a gallo n, and the bonded period was ex- 

 tended from three to eight years. Although 

 the act did not become a law till Aug. 28, 1894, 

 it was evident, as early as June, that the tax 

 on distilled spirits would be increased. This 

 fact explains the great increase in the tax-paid 

 withdrawals of distilled spirits during July and 

 August, and the decrease of such withdrawals 

 during September compared with the same 

 month in 1893. The primary effect of the law 

 was an overstocked market. 



Legislative Session. The General Assembly 

 of 1894 was organized Jan. 1, 1894, and adjourned 

 March 12. The only important business trans- 

 acted was the election of a Democratic Court of 

 Appeals, an almost complete change in the offi- 

 cials of the State Government, and the adoption 

 of the Walton bill, or what is commonly known 

 as the Australian ballot system. 



Insane Asylums. In" the Western Lunatic 

 Asylum 856 patients were treated during the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1894. The proportion of 

 recoveries to admissions was 34 to 100. The total 

 account for maintenance is $99,282.91, and for 

 miscellanies $493.13. The amount charged to 

 ordinary improvements, $4.512.44, includes every 

 item of expense in keeping in repair all the inte- 

 rior departments of the hospital. The total ex- 

 penditure was $126,812.32. The patients made 

 7,437 garments during the year. The cost of 

 maintenance per capita is $145.79 per annum. 



The Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in the year 

 ending Sept. 30, 1894. had '444 patients; "the 

 mortality was 37, and 30 were discharged fully 

 recovered. The receipts for this year were $85,- 

 246.50; the cost of maintenance and ordinary 

 repairs, $68,139.29. 



The Central State Lunatic Asylum, in its re- 

 port for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1894, 

 shows a total of 939 patients (colored), of whom 

 81 were discharged recovered, and 80 died. The 

 receipts and expenditures for the year (includ- 

 ing balance from 1892-'93 of $20,986.23) was 

 $103,730.78, and the amount expended for all 

 purposes was $75,477.82, leaving a cash balance 

 of $28,252.96. 



Penitentiary. There was an average for the 

 year ending Sept. 30. 1894, of 1,368 prisoners in 

 the Penitentiary. The expense of keeping them 

 was $78,514, or $57.39 per capita per year. The 

 cost of maintenance of the prison for the year 

 included food, clothing, guarding and managing 

 prison, fuel, medicine, etc. The sum of $11\948 

 has been expended through the office of the su- 

 perintendent by the prisoners themselves, which 

 was made by overwork. A boiler house costing 

 $1,141.81, a tobacco factory $15,167.06, and a 

 shoeshop $23,780.80, were all finished this year 

 and paid for out of the net earnings of the insti- 

 tution. These for the year 1893-'94 were $:>!.- 

 239.28. The proportion of convicts to the num- 

 ber of inhabitants of each race is 1 to 5.000 

 white and 74- to 5.000 colored. The hire of 

 convicts amounted to $108,045.13. The balance 



