INDIES. 



\\ KST VIKiilNlA. 



Tkt Lffteanl hlnnd* have an area of 706 

 Miuare mile* m. .nhabitair 



5.000 are white. The ('*> 



ud commerce of the ."> 

 in |x.:i u 



- 



yui 



latin 



ITV.1 



ha* an area of 1.754 square mil.-. 

 ,,, yin.-.'- ' ">' - 



ooooected with it administratively, i- ill -mare 

 mile*; irfth I8JKB inha 'I here 



wer*7.*fts birih* nii-i 'I'- "' Triniil.-i-I 



in 1893. There are 178 schools, with 

 pupil*. The pitch Ink.- in the otnter, which is 

 bated t. an American e,,mp:iny. produced W.- 



i i re :1 miles 



of railroad miles of telegraph. Tin- 



ier Broorne. The revenue 

 of Trinidad in 1898 was 497,396, and the er- 



[mportt imoonted I 



70.885, and exports t.. : . The chief 



H are sugar, cacao, and molasses. Tin; 

 exports of Tobago, which princes cotton, to- 

 bacco, and sugar, were valued a 



Of the Windward Man.t*. which ha 

 Charles Bruce for their Governor, Grenada has 

 an area of 188 square miles and ."'.. 11 :'. inhabit- 

 ar.-a i if loV! square miles 



31 L'H-ia. an a 



948 square mil ,10 mhal.it ants The 



ts are sugar, cacao. e..:t..n. -pices, coffee, 

 rum. arrowroot, logwood, and timber. The 

 finance* and trade of the islands in 1893 were 

 as follow: 



- ; . 



MM 



MM 



h.mi-h < olonjr. The i-lan.ls <.f Santa Cruz, 

 St, Thomas, and St John, restituting the Dan- 

 -vhieh C. K. von lled.-maiiii is 

 Oovwroor. hare ao area of 118 square mil. 

 a population of 82,786. < -n<i-t ing almost entire- 

 ly of negroes engaged in th- cultivation ( ,f the 

 Mijpir cane. The imports in H!Kt were \ 



7.986 kroner, and the exports at 195,511 

 



Intrh Clo7. I <;..v.-nim 



Cror^o* are UM island- ..f Curaroa. li-.naire, 

 AruKa.SC. Eurfache, Saba, and the Dut.-h part 

 of J*. Martin. The negro inhnl.itat 

 MM ia ealtfTatinff com and ln-an-. Battle 

 K. an<l the pn-J ,-'i..n ..f salt and Inn-. 



*. whi^h i% a free port, has a large 

 |HM^ P <' w ~t Indian UOandn. 



h < ..lonle^ Thee nro Guadeloupe 

 Md the a/ljmc-nt i%Und^ of Marie Galante, Les 

 Saintea, etc. There were 49 primary schools. 

 attended by 9.753 pupils. Th l-iil r 



-H4 wa.* <-'rnit<-d n' ."..Vil.r.l'j fra-u-s the 



expenditure of Franc* in 1895 at 1.596JM9 

 francm. There are GO miles of railroad. The 



products besides sugar are cotton, ramie, to. 



Tee, cacao, rul>l>.-r. ratlle. cnni. nee. 

 otatoes. Tin- imp..rt- am<>ut 

 ' francs, and ex p.rt- to 1 '.!< I.OIHI fraiu-s 

 in 18 



>\ I x| \ IIH.IMV. n S,,Mil,,-ni Stat 

 mittrd t.. the l'ni..ii June l!i. U 



i in- |...|,ula' 

 vial eell-U '. M | r.'.dl J 



n , ;-. ID iy. 



Capital, t 



Ooverniiient. -The following wer. 

 itli.-er. liirini: the jr< rnor, \Vii; 



I >. mocral 



liam !!. ( 'liiltnii ; T! !,n M . I; 



Auditor. Isaac V. .li.hn>n ; Ait-.n 

 Thon.. ijutai.t (i. . II. , 



m. n,i. 'lit of Tiii.;. 



i 



Lilirarian. II. I. 



cultural lizard. ('. < '. l'.r-\\n : ' .M 



\\ . \v. Den! : BeeraUrf -f th.- Moar.l of n.-aiih. 

 N. l>. Bali terinarian, i:. I-:. 



Terr\ : J of the Fish ('miui. 



White; Commissioner of [mmigration, Thomai 



Finainoos. Th. s- ,,f debt. The 



est imat'-d rei-.-ij't- and i- \pend it ur<-> for the fiscal 

 inline Sept. ::. ]*\t:. \V.T.- a< f,.llou 

 ite liuid. $656,600, with balai.ee ,,l 

 138.36, making n 



mated charges arc $577,318.30, leaving a balance 

 of $2(Mi. I -Jo hool fund. 



, with balance of $:;i:;.'i-:;. l<. ,,,.,, 

 total of $<;.. ,1 fund, x: 



with balance of $282,7 -l.".!l. making a total of 



;v.i. 



state Invtjf,,tjo lis ._ The T.,-i-lativ,- 

 mittee reported the \Ve-t .m Hospital a- 

 crow.led. The hospital at Sp.-nc.-r had 70 men 

 and 75 women pati.-nt-. The IVnitentiary re- 



: *UM7.<r, unexpended balai 

 convicts at work and i:WJ unemployed. The 

 Colorcl Institute, at Farm-, had arranged for 

 th.- en-etion ,,f the new Mechanical Hall for 

 which $6,000 had been appropriated. T 

 form School had a balance on hand of $12,- 



l!l neat ion. The nniver-ity has a new cliem- 

 ical laboratory, and $-10.0110 ha- been exj 

 upon new machinery in M.-chanical Hall. Part 

 of the funds f., r the univ.-r-ity i- supplied by 

 the State, an.l it also del 

 from tjje Morrill fund for -ci-nt ific instruction, 



i the ori-inal en<lov. 



The agricultural exp.-riu >n is main- 



tained by the Tnitcd State- (iovcrnmeiit. 



A preparatory branch of the nni. 

 whicli the Le L 'i-lature appropriated $lo. ( 



An ollicer of the I'nit. 



command of the cadet corp-. The enrollment 



of the university was .'5 JO. an incr-a-e upon any 



"is vear. 1"he whole cost of the buildings 



Legislative Session. The I.e-i-latu- 

 Convened in January, and adjourned in March. 

 - imf)ortant enactments were a< follow : 



Knablintr an insolvent debtor to prefer a 

 for the purpose of giving security for loan m 



