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VERMONT. 



Treasury, Gen. Jorge Uzlar; Public Instruction, 

 Pederigo R. Chirinos ; Fomento, Dr. A. Riera ; Pub- 

 lic Works, Ernesto Garcia. 



Area and Population. The area is estimated 

 at 593,943 square miles. The population in 1894 

 was 2,444,816, all of whom were Catholics, except 

 3,515 Protestants, 411 Jews, and 5,906 others. There 

 were 376,156 persons engaged in agriculture, 135,688 

 in industry, 8,341 in navigation, 1,052 in mining, 

 42,816 in trade, 3,675 in public office, 528 in religion, 

 6,038 in military service, 9,311 in liberal professions, 

 211,143 in domestic service, and 1,650,068 without 

 profession. The number of immigrants for ten 

 years ending in 1894 was 5,548. 



Finances. The budget for 1899 makes the total 

 revenue 34,542,000 bolivars, or francs, of which 

 25,000,000 bolivars come from customs, 5,292,000 

 bolivars from internal duties, and 4,250,000 bolivars 

 from state property. The expenditures are esti- 

 mated at the same sum, of which 7,675,276 bolivars 

 are for the interior, 944,730 bolivars for foreign 

 affairs, 11,381,854 bolivars for the public debt, 122,- 

 720 bolivars for agriculture, industry, and com- 

 merce, 1,742,413 bolivars for posts and telegraphs, 

 2,693,682 bolivars for public instruction, 1,195,392 

 bolivars for public works, 4,214,665 bolivars for 

 finance, and 4,571,268 bolivars for war and marine. 

 The amount of the public debt on June 30, 1898, 

 was 201,419,202 bolivars ; of which 63,439,430 boli- 

 vars represent the internal debt, consolidated at 6 

 per cent, in 1896 ; 49,250,000 bolivars, a new loan 

 raised in that year at 5 per cent. ; and 66,614,550, a 

 3-per-cent. external debt. 



Political Affairs. On March 4, 1898, Gen. 

 Ignacio Andrade. the President-elect, succeeded 

 Gen. Joaquin Crespo. The new President appointed 

 the following Cabinet : Interior, Gen. Zoilo Bello 

 Rodriguez; Foreign Affairs, Gen. Juan Calcano 

 Mathieu : War and Marine, Gen. A. Fernandez ; 

 Treasury, M. A. Matos ; Public Credit, C. V. Eche- 

 verria ; Public Instruction, Dr. B. Mosquera ; Posts 

 and Telegraphs, Dr. J. L. Arismendi ; Agriculture, 

 Industry, and Commerce, Gen. N. Rolande ; Public 

 Works, Dr. Alberto R. Smith. Gen. Hernandez 

 started a rebellion in the province of Zamora, in 

 fighting which ex-President Crespo lost his life in 

 April, but the rising came to an end when the revo- 

 lutionist leader was taken prisoner on June 12. The 

 Venezuelan and the British governments exchanged 

 their cases relative to the Guiana boundary arbitra- 

 tion on March 18, and subsequently forwarded the 

 voluminous documents to Prof. Martens, of St. 

 Petersburg, the president of the Court of Arbitra- 

 tion, which is expected to render its decision in the 

 course of 1899. An English syndicate has bargained 

 for the monopoly of rubber exploitation in the vast 

 Amazon territory of Venezuela. In the beginning 

 of June the Government concluded an arrangement 

 with an Italian colonization society, which engages 

 to import 1,000 Italian families a year for fifteen 

 years and settle them on ceded lands, supplying 

 them with buildings and implements; while the 

 Government grants exemption from customs duties 

 and taxation and pays 18 bolivars a year for each 

 immigrant. The company undertakes furthermore 

 to establish a steamer service between Italy and 

 Venezuela and to organize an agricultural bank 

 with a capital of 20,000,000 bolivars. 



VERMONT, a New England State, admitted to 

 the Union March 4, 1791 ; area. 9,565 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 154,465 in 1800; 217,895 in 1810; 235,966 in 

 1820; 280,652 in 1830; 281,948 in 1840; 314,120 in 

 1850; 315,098 in 1860; 350,551 in 1870; 332,286 in 

 1880, and 332,422 in 1890. Capital, Montpelier. 



Government. The State officers in 1898 were : 

 Governor, Josiah Grout, until October, when he was 



EDWARD CURTIS SMITH, 

 GOVERNOR OF VERMONT. 



succeeded by Edward C. Smith ; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, Henry C. Bates; Secretary of State, Fred- 

 erick A. Hpwland ; Treasurer, John L. Bacon ; 

 Auditor, Orion M. Barber: Adjutant General, T. 

 S, Peck; Superin- 

 tendent of Edu- 

 cation, Mason S. 

 Stone; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme 

 Court, Jonathan 

 Ross ; Associate 

 Justices, Loveland 

 Munson, John W. 

 Rowell, R. S. Taft, 

 H. R. Start, L. H. 

 Thompson, James 

 M. Tyler; Clerk, 

 M. E. Smilie. All 

 the State officers 

 are Republicans. 



Finances. The 

 total receipts for 

 the year, plus $67,- 

 113.80 cash on 

 hand from the pre- 

 viousyear,were$l,- 

 390,030.44. From 

 corporations the State received $387,724.22; from 

 towns' account of State school tax of 1898, $81,- 

 682.54 ; balance of 1897, $4,320.44 ; from towns' ac- 

 count of State highway tax of 1898, $81,682.54; bal- 

 ance of 1897, $4,320.44. There was received from 

 temporary loans, act of 1896, $275,000; from the Su- 

 perintendent of the State Prison, $30,065.04 ; from 

 the Agricultural College fund, $8,130 ; from foreign 

 insurance companies, fees and licenses, $6,824 ; from 

 the United States Government, for Soldiers' Home, 

 $5,943.75 ; for endowment of Agricultural College, 

 $23,000 ; from Judges of Probates' fees, $15,012 ; and 

 from county clerks, judgments and balances, $49,- 

 669.95. The most important items on the debit side 

 of the Treasurer's report are these : Auditor's or- 

 ders, $652,769.61 ; distribution of school tax of 1897, 

 $87,127.40; distribution of highway tax of 1897, 

 $87,348.61 ; University of Vermont and State Agri- 

 cultural College, account of the United States En- 

 dowment fund of 1890, $23,000: temporary loans, 

 act of 1896, paid $280,000, act of 1894, paid 

 $70,000. The resources amounted to $537,619.59, 

 the liabilities to $292,113.27. Also the State pays 

 $7 a month to soldiers enlisted for the war with 

 Spain, making about $7,000 monthly. 



The amount available for the fiscal year from 

 July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1899, was $245.506.32. 

 Loan on account of the State Asylum appropria- 

 tion, $50,000; Agricultural College fund, $135,500. 



Banks. The total resources of the saving 

 banks and trust companies in the State in 1898 

 were $36,928,962.04, this being a net increase of 

 $1,402,941.42 over 1887. There are 23 savings banks 

 and institutions in Vermont, and 18 trust com- 

 panies. There were this year 108,511 depositors, 

 an increase of 2,366 over 1897. 



Militia. On May 16, 1898, the National Guard 

 consisted of 68 officers and 680 enlisted men, organ- 

 ized into a three-battalion regiment of infantry, one 

 4-gun battery of light artillery, and the Norwich 

 cadets, officially the section of artillery. In re- 

 sponse to President McKinley's call for troops in 

 April, Vermont, whose quota was 627. raised a full 

 regiment of 1,030, and therefore when the second 

 call was made the State was exempted. 



Prisons. The State Prison, at Windsor, reports 

 277 inmates from July 1, 1896, to June 30. 1898. 

 The total income was $54,188.68, an increase over 

 the previous two years due to the price paid for 

 convict labor, having been raised from 50 cents a 



