

MISSISSIPPI. 



$1,394,707.96, is held in trust, 

 in |ayable. There are 

 MMjOOO 6-per-oanU bonds, due in 1907, and 



, . , !:.> sjfti twi atj fsn 



to run. Tin- Swamp I Jin-l fin. 



ih- -.,--. i,ii,..untii, K -i,,$lWMHMl. 

 at its special 



18*1. authorised the issuance or special warrants 

 by tbe Auditor of Public Account* in . 

 casbwmrra 'he treanury to an amount 



not eicwdinc 1900.000 outstanding at an 

 time, the warrant* t<> boar intervM at the rate of 

 S per osnL par annum. These warrants were 

 BuSrtt receivable for all dues to the State, but 

 witboul interest when so paid in. The neoee- 

 sitf anticipated for the use of these warrants 

 area* in June, 1894. and again in June. 1895, 

 reoour** was had to the special warrant act, and 



reached. 



Tbe beoing of theee special warranUwa 

 by tb. Treasury Department of the United States 

 (tWnroent to be a violation of the Federal laws 

 that prohibit tbe issuance of such obligations in 

 Broilitode of the oblig 



and tbe secret service dh hat deoart- 



mrnt caused tbe arrest of th.- <io\ernor. Audi- 

 1 Treasurer for an alleged violation of the 

 statute that denounces counterfeiting. 



aad impose* a penalty of twenty years' i in j 

 seat for such violation. Hut tho grand jury 

 failed to indict 



Education. A nummary of the biennial re- 

 port of the State Superintendent makes the fol- 

 lowing showing : Kducable < hildrm i. mini. -ra- 

 tion of 1W4), 543.581 : enroll*! in public schools, 

 S50.615 : average daily attendance, 202,083 ; total 

 value of school property. $1,636,055; amount 



*i.-j;i;.rjfll 



Of the total enrolled, 209,126 are white and 

 I are oolorwl. Total white teachers, 4,591 ; 







The enrollment at Cniversity for 



the fall term was about *J ,'.-! hum- 



ber sine* the abolition of the preparat 



The institution has 

 of about $82,000 from the 

 By an act of Congress ap- 

 lune 80. 1894. a township of land was 

 for the use of the univer- 

 Sabsequently the lands that had been re- 

 stnrsd for naval purposes, chiefly in Jackson 

 and Harmon Counties, were restored to th. 

 public domain, and were selected, or enough of 

 Ihssa. to make up the township to whi-h th- 

 entitled. T will be sold 



frtment, 



Iswsd and the proceeds h.-l-l in trust by the 



\ 



le 



and Mechanical College, at 

 had SM students for the sessio. 



f .*. 18Haod 136 for that ending in 

 **HJJ*; Ada* of 18 was graduated. 

 rKlustrial Institu 



ita and College for 

 enrolled Dec. 1, 1895. A 

 w in process of erection, which 

 ibout If* M 



* the Alcorn Agricultural 



of 1995. Of this number, 36 





The agricultural colleges. H! 

 versity, receive a town-li ; 



Normal - Holly S| 



hud an rnrolliii !<>r the spring : 



all term. Thi- 



oolorcii >t inlcnt <. ami has IMM-II supjn'M.,1 on a 

 yearly appropriation of & < 



Millsapa College, near Jackson. ; 

 property of the Mississippi an*l North 

 -u.pi ( Inferences of tin- .Methods 

 Church. South. In F,-l,ruary 'Jin Btudrnl 

 in attendance. Five departments have been 

 organized. The college has an < n 

 al.out $107,000. 



I'., llhavt-n Collop* ' lit Jackson, was 



Inirnnl in I..- n-lm: 



aTl mrliiT tin- Mary 1 lolincs Sciniii 

 colored girls. 'J milr> northwest .f Jackson, was 

 destroyed ly tin-. It \vji> built by tin- < 

 people of the capital. 



( harltie*. The Slat.- Lunatir Asylun 



iticiits at the IM'-IIIIIIII^ ,,f 1^-: 

 at tho cnl ; average number, 707 i 

 inmates to the number of 

 155 discharged; average, 77-1. There \v. 

 deaths during the two years. The appropria- 

 tions for the support of the asylum fort: 

 amounted! to $190,000. 



At the Mast Mi i-Mppi Insane Asylum -lur- 

 ing the year closing Sept. 80, 1804. then 

 303 patients, 42 were discharge* 1. 1!) <li 

 .'I.' r.inained. In the year ending S<-; 



B04 were treated, 41 ili- 

 ami *Ji:{ remained. Arrangements ha\<- been 

 made to accommodate 300 p;it ; 



I hiring 1894 the patients treated at th. State 

 Charity Hospital at Vii-ksburg nuinben-.: 

 and in 1895 to Dec. 1 5,762. Th. Instit 

 the Blind has about 40 pupils. 



The report of the D.-af and I>umb Institu- 

 tion at Jackson gives these d> 

 rollment for the session of 1891 

 males, :il ; white females, -\'.\; colored 

 14; colored females, i:? : total both races, 101. 



Penitentiary. The value of the farn 

 nets for 1895 amounted to about tM^^I 

 while the expenses, aside from th- 

 in:: implements and animals, n a 

 Tli.- number of convicts is more than 1.000. 



15. inks. Tin- Auditor's report of 63 - ' 

 banks doini: business N<n 

 aggregate of resources and liabilities to b< siu.- 

 284,318.77, and of capital paid in 

 In March reports from 72 banks were si, 



ihoWiog a total capital ..f $4.1 

 deposit^ amount inuMo *s..ni:J 



I .'.iilro.nl-. "H li 



Gulf and Ship Island Hailroad ; the conti 

 quir.-s that it shall be finished to Hattiesburg 

 by August, 1896. The lino under <-n-t ruction 



niles long. It will open up a larp 

 of pine hind. 



Surveys are made for the Mobile, Jack* 

 Kansas City road, which will be built as - 

 $250,000 can be raised by subscript 

 towns to be benefit cd. 



Water Ways. A water way- n was 



called to meet at \ i.k^bur 

 object of arousing interest and call ing the a'trn- 

 tion of Congress to the necessity of continuing 

 the work of protecting the lands in the lower 



