

I LORIDA. 



The aggregate 



; U f-'l- 



> ,s,s,, ,.;-,;. , , . , <7; total, 



.il aimmir It. M.I 



-os was $782,946, ami the amount . \| 



la for 1896 



!3.44; owl |*T pupil based on 



dim-iii. * 4. .:: on average at- 

 ' schools, con in - 

 ee* baied on i-pui.. >" - 



Hint-lit in 

 .i.ce. $9.95. 



'. the summer irain Ifl in 



the numU r maintained was i 



1 f..r Iniih races in 



jmrtmenjs. '1 ' was 



717. being 88 per cent, of the whole numb 



<1 in 1890. 



\ h.nit jes. , report of the raperintendenl of 

 1 



D tin- institution LM6 



Mies and 149 females. c .-TV item . 



pense. these were maintained at a t st of 



\t the close of 1895 tin- patients niim- 

 *H_niale*. 1 ."!: females. PJ'.i. Tin- numlN-r 

 'iiss jlin s for 1896 was 171. The deaths were 

 discharges 86. T K-ed wir 



aggregate cost of tin- institution fur 

 1896 made th<- /> r r.i/nla expense $'.' 



The disbursement! on account <>f tin- institution 

 were $49.263.72 for 1895, an.l in 1- 

 gated $63.515.50. The products of the asylum farm 

 f,,r ISM were valued at* 



-.Hi. The Legislate . abolished that 



:i i if the lunacy law which permitted p rival.- 



parties to ran- for lunatics, and reouired that they 



be re-examiti' d and a.ltnitt.'.i t<> tin- a-yluin. Im- 



ui'iits have been mad.- in the >a nit at ion of the 



buildings, and tin- Legislature made appropriation 



f..r an electric-light plant 



Militia. The Adjutanl :'s report gives 



th' following data: Infantry, 80 officers, 90 non- 

 commissioned staff ami I'aii-K an.! 1 ..".' i m.-n ; ar- 

 tillt-r l 80 men; total, 84 ofl 



90 HOIK .munitioned staff and ban<l<. and l.:'.<m 

 m. -n. Naval militia. 2"> ofli<-,-rs and W2 IIH-II. 

 making the aggregate of land and naval 



n. State appropriations, $16,- 

 000 for annual camps of instruction, $8,000: t 

 troops, $4,0<>' j.. uses, $4,000. 



appropriation. $3.4N6.4#. At home >tati<>n-> 

 most of the companies have recitations in tactics 

 and guard duty: in camp, battalion commanders 



Insurance. I Miring 1896 there was paid for in- 



surance $1,289.< he losses during the same 



l--ri..d were $249,79") does n.t include the 



gums paid to otiildinu' nd loan and inv<-<ttnent 



^tute, or to insurance < "Mi- 



pan ie* not authorised to do business there. The 



f life insurance companies alone fn.m tin- 



for 1H96 were $587,741.38, wl.il- the losses 



amount"! to $65.06:: 



Bani !, ants' National Bank of Ooala 



failed .Jan. 14. It was regarded as being in danger 

 a early a 1804, but th- . :^un-r did not 



:rnw the S'at.-'- m.-n-y: <. n the contrary, he 

 ontinued to loan pul.lic funds to the Kan, 

 idenr-e against the 



f the bank, and his arrest was ordered : hut 

 the ;.neared to arrest him he shot 



f. anl died almost instantly. 

 Water WayH. The annual report of tl 

 leers shows the following amount- 

 during the year M I'lorida 



rivers and . X.VKI/KHI : In- 



dian river. $29.000 : K \ \\.-t harh-.r 

 Charlotte harbor and Pease creek, $25.000 : - 



sota Bay, > 0; Appa- 



H harl.o,-. | 



It was announced in .fuly that a c.,mp : m\ had 

 1 mid a >hip canal across the 

 : a point near M. A 



The e-lilliale,! 



000. The length will 



be 114 miles. It would save al>out c.uo m , 

 vessels trit- .,1 the Atlantic 



I'ro.hirts. h, in, nrti.-le mi the n- 

 Florida, in the " Manufactur. ? 



ears ago the t, i.-,i 



wise. n\. r. and ovrrlainl wa- !>-> tli. ; 



;o-<lay the value of her f..|-es| pn.din : 

 i to foreign and dome-lit- port-, iiol count- 

 ing ov.-rland impmentl, alm ; . :hat -11111. 



The \allle of h.T phoNj.; 



and i -.(MM. while 



the value of tobacco, in hales and manufactured, i> 

 upward of x 1 7. <M Mi.OOO. 



The annual report of the cotton crop credits the 

 with i;u,<H>0 h;, 



The tot.-il investment for fishing jn >a'r 



:. with an annual pmilurtion valin-d at 

 $1,909,785. Tlu-se ! from the i 



recent investigation hy the l"nite<l ,^' 

 Commission, which Drives the nine leadii 

 follows; Sponge, $86^,107; mullet if' dted), 



$284,77.".: -nappere, $l.V,.:;ii : oysters, ^;- 

 j.ompano, $87.W:5: turiles, $28,50tt ; trout, $27,170; 

 mullet n.e. s-J.V.tr,] : Spanish mackerel. s-Jl.i 



l.an lessii, ss. Among the rei-ommi-ndati.- 



the (Jovenior's messap. to the Legislature was one 



for an amendment U> the Constitutioo, allon 



circuit judge to he aj|.<.inted for the 

 coultl hold court in any couniv where imme- 

 diate necessity called for it : and that, for the in- 

 terval In-fore the time such amendment could go 

 into effect, the (iov.-rnor niiu'ht have tl.. 

 assign any of the circuit judges to hold a q 

 tej-in in an em- r the purpose of |.r 



ing lynchings : two. he said, had occurred tin 



. the assemliling of the 1. .In June 



another lynching was at t.-mpt I'd at Key West : hut 

 a mob of negroes collected and prevented the pris- 

 oner from heing taken. They tried to lynch the 

 white man who led in the attempt, hut ! 

 A whit.- man was shot hy negroes during H 

 citement. and the result "was another attempt to 

 lynch the prisoner. The militia was ordered t" be 

 in readiness, and the assistance of Government 

 troops wax called for. but the anticipated race war 

 did not take place. 



Court Derisions. 1 rmerly th< 

 Court. i?i ordi ' it* judirn, 



compelled to file a written opinion in 

 decided by it. in which t! 

 on e\ 'ii or point presented were required 



length, and this whether 



firmed, reversed, or modified the judgment <>f the 

 This provision wa* amended at the 

 on of 1896, and the court is no Ion- 

 to file written opinions and give authority to its 



leeisjon was rendered in the Knited States 

 Com' nxillein M -laining the sep- 



law. 



Th. Legislature of 1893 imposed a 



tax upon express companies. Th, Southern 

 Kxprcs Company resisted the payment r.f th 

 on the ground that the statute was unconstitutional 

 and infringed that clause of the Federal Com 

 tion which rcM-rved to < ri-.'ht to p-L'ii- 



late interstate commerce. The Supreme Court of 



