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their children the objects of living prayer, and 

 will so instruct them in the Gospel and go with 

 them to the throne of grace, that they will sur- 

 render their hearts to God in their youth, and 

 early take a natural and living interest in the 

 Church as they do in the family. Persons thus 

 enrolled as associate ihembers shall be enrolled as 

 active members of the Church when they shall 

 have made a credible profession of faith in Jesus 

 Christ as their Saviour and Lord, and shall have 

 accepted the doctrines of the Gospel as hold by 

 the Friends. If the member does not make such 



profession when he reaches matured years, his 

 name may be dropped from the list of members 

 at the discretion of the monthly meeting. When 

 but one parent is a member, the children may be 

 enrolled as associate members upon the request 

 of that parent and the consent of the other." 

 Other minutes of quarterly meetings were pre- 

 sented adverse to any modification of the rules. 

 After discussion, a minute was drawn in the yearly 

 meeting stating that it was not prepared at pres- 

 ent to make any change. 



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GEORGIA, a Southern State, one of the orig- 

 inal thirteen, ratified the Constitution Jan. 2, 

 1788; area, 59,475 square miles. The population, 

 according to each decennial census, was 82.548 in 

 1790; 102,686 in 1800; 252,433 in 1810; 340,985 

 in 1820; 516,823 in 1830; 691,392 in 1840; 906,185 

 in 1850; 1,057,286 in 1860; 1,184,109 in 1870; 

 1,542,180 in 1880; 1,837,353 in 1890; and 2,216,331 

 in 1900. Capital, Atlanta. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1900: Governor, Allen D. Candler; 

 Secretary of State, Philip Cook; Treasurer, W. J. 

 Speer; Comptroller, William A. Wright; At- 

 torney-General, Joseph M. Terrell; State School 

 Commissioner, G. R. Glenn; Adjutant General, 

 J. M. Kell; Commissioner of Agriculture. O. B. 

 Stevens; Geologist, W. S. Yeates; Chemist, J. M. 

 McCandless; Librarian, James E. Brown; Rail- 

 road Commissioners, L. N. Trammell, S. R. At- 

 kinson, T. C. Crenshaw; Prison Commissioners, 

 J. S. Turner, C. A. Evans, T. Eason; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, Thomas J. Simmons; 

 Associate Justices, Samuel Lumpkin, Henry T. 

 Lewis, Andrew J. Cobb, William A. Little, and 

 William H. Fish; Clerk, Z. D. Harrison all 

 Democrats. 



Finances. The Treasurer's report for the year 

 ending Sept. 30, 1900, contains these items: Bal- 

 ance in the treasury, Oct. 1, 1899, $438,776.66; 

 received after that date, $3,542,069.69; making a 

 total of $3,980,846.35. The disbursements for the 

 same period, Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 1900, were $3,564,- 

 700.05; leaving a balance in tlie treasury, Oct. 1, 

 of $416,146.30. This balance was composed of ad- 

 vances on civic establishment coupons paid, etc., 

 amounting to $38,217.01, and $377,929.29 belonging 

 to the reserved fund. The gain in values in 1900 

 over 1899, including every form of property, was 

 $18,788,333. Of this amount $3.489,206 is in the 

 railroads of the State and $15,299,127 is in county 

 property. The taxable property was valued at 

 $436,000,000. 



Appropriations. The appropriations for the 

 year were: Special appropriations, $9,794.41; State 

 University, 1900, $8.000; State Normal School 

 1899, $4,000; 1900, $12,000; trustees Sanitorium 

 1899, $1,197.90; 1900, $642.16; trustees State Uni- 

 versity, $545.86; temporary loan, $100,000; wid- 

 ows' pensions 1899, $420; 1900, $213,300; West- 

 ern and Atlantic Railroad change bills, $3; total, 

 $3,564,700.05. 



Education. The Superintendent of Education 

 says, in his report for 1900: "All the States in 

 the Union except a small group of Southern States 

 now have n nine months' absolutely free term for 

 all the children of school ape. Georgia has only 

 a five months' term. Massachusetts spends $39.10 

 every year for each child enrolled, Rhode Island 

 spen'ds $36.26, New York $34.55, while Georgia 

 spends $6.31. As a matter of fact, Georgia spends 



on her country children each year less than $4 

 for each child enrolled. Georgia provides for each 

 child of school age $2.16, while Massachusetts pro- 

 vides $22.16, Rhode Island $14.62, New York 

 $16.95. Nearly all the Middle and Western States 

 spend ten times as much per child of school age 

 as Georgia spends. The teachers in these systems 

 receive three and four times as much salary as 

 our teachers receive. ... If you have taken the 

 trouble to ascertain the present value of the court- 

 house and jail in your county and the present 

 value of all the schoolhouses in your county, you 

 have learned, perhaps, that your courthouse and 

 jail have cost the county three or four times as 

 much as all the schoolhouses in the county have 

 cost. . . . The tables in this report will show that 

 the average pay of the country school-teacher in 

 Georgia for the last school year was $128 per 

 annum. 



" In 1898, the date of the last school census, 

 the school population was 660,870. This report 

 shows an enrollment for the school year 1899 of 

 423,467, with a total average attendance of only 

 253,193. This enrollment and attendance show a 

 percentage of increase over former years, and yet 

 less than 40 per cent, of our children of school 

 age attended school for the entire school term. 



" Fulton County [Atlanta is in this county] is 

 spending this year on her prisoners $82,050.45. In 

 the county's budget there is not a dollar for 

 schools. The State gives the county $13.747.71. 

 The average number of prisoners in Fulton County 

 is supposed to be about 2,000. The school chil- 

 dren of the county by the last census number 

 6,850. Here are 6,850 children at school at a cost 

 of $13,747.71, and 2,000 prisoners in prisons or in 

 the chain gang at a cost of $82,050.45." 



Mr. E. C. Branson, president of the State Nor- 

 mal School, says in an article on Education and 

 Crime: " One sixth of our whites and nearly seven 

 tenths of the negroes are illiterate, according to 

 the census of 1890; and we find that 44 per cent, 

 of our penitentiary convicts were committed for 

 crimes of passion and violence, while 35 per cent, 

 were committed for burglary alone. Georgia is 

 near the bottom in the column of illiteracy, only 

 four States having a lower rate, and person and 

 property are exposed accordingly. 



" Taking the illiteracy returns for Geprgia in 

 1893 and the figures in our penitentiary report 

 nearest that date, we find that an illiterate negro 

 population of 27 per cent, furnished 54 per cent. 

 of the negro convicts; while a literate negro popu- 

 lation of 73 per cent, furnished 46 per cent, of 

 the negro convicts. Thus the illiterate negro popu- 

 lation of the State averaged 3 convicts per 1.000, 

 while the literate negro population of the State 

 averaged 1." 



Tlie school fund for 1900 was $1.440.642. 



The Governor, in his annual message, said: " The 



