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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (GEORGIA.) 



ufacturing in 1890, 13,199; in 1900, 34,230. Wages 

 paid in manufacturing enterprises in 1890, $5,918,- 

 614; in 1900, $10,683,038. Value of farm-pr Jucts 

 in 1890, $12,086,330; in 1900, $18,309,104. 



Phosphate. According to statistics furnished 

 by the United States Geographical Survey, Flor- 

 ida, since 1894, has been the chief State in the 

 production of phosphate rock. In 1888 the num- 

 ber of tons mined was 2,813; in 1894 it was 589,- 

 174; in 1901 it was 751,996. 



Claims and Appropriations. Two events of 

 importance to Florida were the passage by Con- 



e-ess of the Florida Indian War claim against the 

 nited States Government, which the Florida del- 

 egation to Congress had for forty-four years vainly 

 tried to collect; and the appropriation of nearly 

 $3,000,000 by Congress for Florida rivers and har- 

 bors. The Indian War claim amounted to more 

 than $1,000,000. The improvements in the prin- 

 cipal ports of the State insured by the appropria- 

 tion made by Congress will greatly increase their 

 commercial importance. 



Political. On July 15, 1902, Florida held its 

 first primary election for the nomination of can- 

 didates to be voted for at the regular election in 

 November. A second primary was held on Aug. 

 12 to determine the nomination where no one 

 candidate received a majority vote. Candidates 

 for the United States Senate, 2 Railroad Com- 

 missioners, Supreme Court Justice, State Comp- 

 troller, for the First and Second Congressional Dis- 

 tricts, for the new Third Congressional District, Sec- 

 retary of State, candidates to represent all of the 

 counties in the State in the lower house in the 

 Legislature of 1903, and to represent half of the 

 counties in the Senate, as well as a large number 

 of county officials, were voted for by the Demo- 

 cratic party. No negro and no white man other 

 than a Democrat was allowed by law to take part 

 in this Democratic primary election. The entire 

 State ticket nominated by the primary was of 

 course Democratic. All the candidates nominated 

 by the primary were elected in November. One 

 Republican member of the lower house was elected. 

 The Republicans did not nominate any State ticket. 



Two constitutional amendments were voted for 

 in November: one providing for three additional 

 Supreme Court justices, and one providing for an 

 additional judicial circuit. Both amendments 

 were carried. 



Penitentiary. On Jan. 1, 1902, Florida had 

 921 convicts in its care. In 1902 449 were received 

 and 38, who had escaped, were recaptured. In the 

 year 226 convicts were discharged on expiration 

 of their sentences, 40 were pardoned, 78 escaped, 6 

 were committed to the insane asylum, and 2 were 

 released by order of court. On Dec. 31, 1902, the 

 convicts numbered 1,033. Of the convicts received 

 in 1902, 12 were of foreign birth, and 437 were 

 native-born. Their ages varied from eleven years 

 to sixty years, the largest number being commit- 

 ted between the ages of nineteen and thirty-one. 

 Of these convicts, 36 were white, 35 being males 

 and 1 female; 413 were negroes, 399 being males 

 and 14 females. Forty-nine were committed for 

 murder, 55 for attempt at murder, 65 for grand 

 larceny, and 55 for entering with intent to com- 

 mit misdemeanor. 



Finances. The Treasurer's report of the gen- 

 eral revenue fund for 1902 shows a balance in the 

 treasury on Jan. 1, 1903, of $228,074.19. The re- 

 ceipts in 1902 amounted to $809,074.19, the prin- 

 cipal sources of revenue being as follow: Gen- 

 eral license tax, $202,742.24; insurance-company 

 tax, $57,546.11; State taxes, $232,594.52. The 

 debt of the State on Jan. 1, 1903, was $1,032,500, 

 divided as follows: Bonds in State school fund, 



$650,100; bonds in Agricultural College funds, 

 $135,800; bonds in seminary funds, $98,600; bonds 

 in the hands of outsiders, $148,000. Total funds 

 on hand Dec. 31, 1902, amounted to $1,092,458.26. 

 Of this $692,946 was the Indian War claim fund, 

 appropriated and paid by the Congress of the 

 United States in 1902 after pending nearly fifty 

 years. The bonded debt of the State consists of 

 $764,800 of 6-per-cent. bonds, and $267,700 of 3-per- 

 cent, manuscript bonds issued to the 3 educational 

 funds of the State. In 1873 $925,000 of 6-per-cent. 

 State bonds were issued, to mature Jan. 1, 1903. 

 The sinking-fund has taken up $160,200 of these 

 bonds. This leaves $764,800 of them outstand- 

 ing, and of these $616,800 are held by the 3 edu- 

 cational funds of the State as investments, and 

 $148,000 are held by individuals and will be paid 

 on presentation. The $267,000 of 3-per-cent. man- 

 uscript bonds held by the educational funds of the 

 State were issued in place of a like amount of 

 7-per-cent. bonds, which were held by these funds 

 and which matured Jan. 1, 1901. 



Charities. The State Hospital for the Insane 

 reports that in 1902 286 new patients were admit- 

 ted, the whole number treated in the year being 

 926. In that year 108 were discharged as cured. 

 13 as improved, 4 as unimproved, 1 as not insane. 

 One hundred and two died in the year. 



GEORGIA, a Southern State, one of the origi- 

 nal thirteen, ratified the Constitution Jan. 2, 1788; 

 area, 59,475 square miles. The population, ac- 

 cording to each decennial census, was 82,548 in 

 1790; 162,868 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 1902: Governor, Allen D. Candler; 

 Secretary of State, Philip Cook; Treasurer, Robert 

 E.Park; Comptroller-General, William A.Wright; 

 Attorney - General, 

 Boykin Wright; 

 Adjutant - Gener- 

 al, J. W. Robert- 

 son ; Commission- 

 er of Education, 

 G. R. Glenn; Com- 

 missioner of Agri- 

 culture, O. B. Ste- 

 vens ; Geologist, 

 W. S. Yeates; 

 Chemist, J. M. 

 McCandless ; Pen- 

 sion Commission- 

 er, John W. Lind- 

 sey ; Entomolo- 

 gist, W. M. Scott; 

 Librarian, Carlton 

 J. Wellborn ; Rail- 

 road Commission- 

 ers, Spencer R. 

 Atkinson, J. Pope 

 Brown, and G. 

 Gunby Jordan; Prison Commissioners, J. S. Tur- 

 ner, C. A. Evans, and Thomas Eason; Chief Jus- 

 tice Supreme Court, Thomas J. Simmons; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Samuel Lumpkin, Hal Lewis, An- 

 drew J. Cobb, William A. Little, and William H. 

 Fish; Clerk, Z. D. Harrison; Court Reporters, 

 George W. Stevens and John M. Graham all of 

 whom are Democrats. 



Early in 1902 Joseph M. Terrell resigned as At- 

 torney-General to enter the gubernatorial race. 

 He was elected. Boykin Wright was appointed 

 by Gov. Candler to fill the unexpired term of At- 

 torney-General Terrell, and, at the autumn elec- 



JOSEPH M. TERRELL, 

 GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. 



