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of the Constitution in the English language; and, 

 before he shall be entitled to vote, he shall have 

 paid on or before the first day of May, of the 

 year in which he proposes to vote, his poll tax for 

 I he previous year as prescribed by Article V, sec- 

 tion 1, of the Constitution. But no male person 

 who was on Jan. 1, 1867, or at any time prior 

 thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any 

 State in the United States wherein he then re- 

 sided, and no lineal descendant of any such person, 

 shall be denied the right to register and vote at 

 any election in this State by reason of his failure 

 to possess the educational qualification herein pre- 

 scribed: Provided, he shall have registered in 

 Accordance with the terms of this section prior 

 to Dec. 1, 1908. 



' The General Assembly shall provide for the 

 registration of all persons entitled to vote without 

 the educational qualifications herein prescribed, 

 and shall, on or before Nov. 1, 1908, provide for 

 the making of a permanent record of such regis- 

 tration, and all persons so registered shall forever 

 thereafter have the right to vote in all elections 

 by the people in this State, unless disqualified 

 under section 2 of this article: Provided, such 

 person shall have paid his poll tax as above re- 

 quired. 



" SEC. 5. That this amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion is presented and adopted as one indivisible 

 plan for the regulation of the suffrage, with the 

 intent and purpose to so connect the different 

 parts, and to make them so dependent upon 

 each other, that the whole shall stand or fall 

 together." 



The amendment was adopted by a large major- 

 ity. It is to go into effect July 1, 1900. 



At the presidential election in November the 

 State Democratic electoral ticket received 157,736 

 votes and the Republican 132,997. The Demo- 

 cratic majority was thus about 5,000 greater than 

 in 1896. 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Nov. 3, 1889; area, 70,795 

 square miles. The population in 1890 was 182,- 

 719; in 1900 it was 319,146. Capital, Bismarck. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1900: Governor, Frederick B. Fancher; 

 Lieutenant Governor, J. M. Devine; Secretary of 

 State, Fred Falley; Treasurer, D. W. Driscoll; 

 Auditor, A. N. Carlblom ; Attorney-General, John 

 F. Cowan; Superintendent of Education, J. G. 

 Halland; Adjutant General, Elliott S. Miller; 

 Commissioner of Insurance, George W. Harrison; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, H. U. Thomas; 

 State Examiner, H. A. Langlie ; Railroad Commis- 

 sioners, Luke L. Walton, John Simons, Henry 

 Erickson; Land Commissioner, D. J. Laxdal; Su- 

 perintendent of Irrigation and Forestry, W. W. 

 Barrett; Oil Inspector, P. B. Wickham; Game 

 Warden, G. E. Bowers; Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, J. M. Bartholomew; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Alfred Wallin, N. C. Young; Clerk, R. D. 

 Hoskins all Republicans. 



The State officers are elected for two years in 

 November of the even-numbered years. The Legis- 

 lature meets biennially in January of the odd- 

 numbered years. 



Population. The increase of population in the 

 State during the decade was 74.6 per cent. Some 

 counties like Williams, Wells, and others in 

 which the settlement has been unusually rapid 

 show increases of several hundred per cent. All 

 the counties show increases, but the greatest per- 

 centage is in the central and Avestern parts of the 

 State. 



I he cities having more than 2,000 inhabitants 



Dickinson's remarkable growth, 131 per cent., 

 is due to the development of the western part of 

 the State. Valley City, with 124 per cent, in- 

 crease, has been aided by the " Soo " Railroad. 



Finances. The semi-annual statement of the 

 Treasurer, published in August, shows the receipts 

 and disbursements of his office for the six months 

 ending July 1. The statement shows a total bal- 

 ance in the various funds, Jan. 1, of $209,888.79, of 

 which $59,060.19 was in the general funds. The 

 receipts from all sources in the six-months period 

 was $703,147.94, and the disbursements $736,610.- 

 73, leaving a balance on hand July 1, 1900, of 

 $167,426. Of this amount $40,289.36 was in the gen- 

 eral fund. The miscellaneous receipts from vari- 

 ous sources of revenue, including fees of State offi- 

 cers and similar sources, was $138,850.76. The 

 total receipts to the general fund from taxes, paid 

 in by the counties, was $341,068.98. 



The tuition fund, distributed for the benefit of 

 the schools of the State, received $4,395.40 from 

 fines through the State. From the interest and 

 income fund, turned into the State tuition fund 

 from interest paid on State school funds, land 

 contracts, etc., the total receipts are $98,646.84. 

 The interest on bonds held by the permanent 

 school funds of the State aggregates $21,069.71, 

 and the interest on mortgages $4,456.95. The 

 total receipts from installments on farm loans 

 made on agricultural lands throughout the State 

 from the permanent school fund were $8,417, and 

 the redemption of bonds aggregated about $6,000. 

 The sale of Government lands, of which by a re- 

 cent law the State receives 5 per cent., brought in 

 $3,219.80. 



Among the items of disbursement were $100 for 

 the conviction of horse thieves, $17,076 from the 

 wolf bounty fund in the redemption of certifi- 

 cates, and $18,000 interest on the public debt. 



The statement of balances shows $40,289 in the 

 general fund, $58,302 in the bond interest fund, 

 $11,000 in the school fund, $14,000 in the tuition 

 fund, $1,600 in the wolf bounty fund, $15,000 in 

 the establishment fund for the twine and cordage 

 plant, and $16,000 in the operating fund for the 

 same institution. 



There was a total of $39,033 in suspended banks, 

 Dec. 31, 1899, and of this $2,953.70 was collected in 

 dividends during the six months. Of the balance 

 shown in the general fund, the amount in sus- 

 pended banks is included. 



Valuations. The total valuation of the State 

 this year, as fixed by the Board of Equalization, 

 was about $4,000,000 more than in 1899. The 

 amount was $117,789,615, of which the sum of 

 $73,304,983 is real property, $17,367,525 is railroad 

 property, and $27,117,107 is personal property. 



The largest single item of personal valuation 

 is that of horses over three years old. There are 

 204,240 returned by the assessors, and the average 

 value is a little over $30, making the total value 

 $6,735,244. The total assessed valuation of all 

 classes of horses in the State is about $7,500,000, 

 and of cattle about $5.000,000. 



There are 114,000 head of cattle one year old 

 returned this year, against 93,000 last year; of 

 two-year-old cattle, 88,000 this year, against 64,- 



