ALABAMA. 



ANGLICAN CHUEOHES. 



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corporation of the city of Selma, and to provide for 

 the application of the assets thereof to the payment of 

 the debts thereof. 



To prevent cruelty to animals. 



To empower the Railroad Commission of Alabama 

 to recommend joint local rates on freight to railroad 

 companies and persons operating railroads in this 

 State. 



To provide for the comfort and accommodation of 

 oassengers at each of the passenger depots along the 

 line of every railroad operated by every railroad com- 

 pany in this State. 



To provide that a determination of any matter by 

 the Kailroad Commission within its jurisdiction shall 

 be prima facie evidence- that such determination was 



right and proper, etc. 



To confer police po 

 passenger-trams in this 



wers upon the conductors of 

 passenger-trains in this State. 



To make appropriations for the payment of the rail- 

 road commissioners and their clerk, and for other ex- 

 penses of the Eailroad Commission. 



To incorporate the inhabitants and territory for- 

 merly embraced within the corporate limits of the 

 municipal corporation, since dissolved, styled the city 

 of Selma, and to establish a local government therefor. 



To authorize private corporations to hold stock- 

 holders' and directors' meetings outside of this State 

 in certain cases. 



The amount of appropriations for the fiscal 

 year was $1,120,435. 



Statistics. The total taxable property in Ala- 

 bama in the year 1881, on which the tax 

 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1882, 

 was collected, is $152,880,069.24. Of this 

 amount the railroads of the State furnished 

 $17,574,583. The total railroad mileage in 

 Alabama is, main track, 1,788 miles; side-track, 

 131 miles 1,919 in all. The total valuation of 

 track is $15,801,829.78; of rolling-stock, $1,- 

 762,753.89. 'The average value of the main 

 track is $8,643 per mile. Of the several rail- 

 roads in the State, the Nashville and Decatur 

 has the highest valuation, it being $14,000 per 

 mile. Of the whole taxable property, the rail- 

 roads furnish over 11 per cent. Variations in 

 land values, shown by the Auditor's report, are 

 as numerous as the counties in the State. In 

 Baldwin, the value is 65 cents per acre. Even 

 in so rich a county as Barbour, the valuation 

 is only $3.50 per acre ; in Cherokee, $4.50 ; in 

 Escambia, less than 50 cents ; in Eto wah, $6.50 ; 

 in Limestone, $5.11; in Lowndes, $5.06; in 

 Madison, $6 ; in Marshall, over $4 ; in Wash- 

 ington, less than 50 cents. 



The whole tax raised on property that reached 

 the Treasury in the fiscal year ending Septem- 

 ber 30, 1882, was $651,156.83. Of this amount 

 the five counties in the State paying over $20,- 

 000 apiece contributed $254,351.56, or 39 per 

 cent. The amounts paid by each of these coun- 

 ties were as follow : 



Mobile $93,917 23 



Montgomery 71 059 34 



Dallas 36,535 2 3 



Jefferson 27,255 35 



Madison 25,58441 



The county coming next to these, but pay- 

 ing less than $20,000, is Barbour, with $19",- 

 185.30. The amount of licenses paid by these 

 five counties is $25,998.90, or 36 per cent of 

 the whole amount of license-tax. The amount 



of tax retained in these five counties for the 

 school fund, which of course never reached the 

 State treasury, was $43,435.25, or over 19 per 

 cent, of the whole school fund. 



Adding to the tax of the counties mentioned 

 that of Barbour, Bullock, Jackson, Lowndes, 

 Talladega, and Tuscaloosa, all of which pay 

 over $15,000, we have the eleven counties in 

 the State which pay over $15,000 in direct 

 taxes, paying considerably more than half the 

 entire property-tax of $651,156.83. The black 

 belt is still by far the richest portion of the 

 State, especially if we include those black coun- 

 ties which are not in the black belt proper. 



The entire tax paid by Montgomery county, 

 for general purposes, for the school fund, from 

 licenses and from general taxes, aggregated 

 $93,383.75. The whole amount paid by Mobile 

 county was $109,620.64. The next highest was 

 Dallas, with $40,983. Of the $651,156.83 paid 

 into the treasury from the tax on property, 

 Montgomery and Mobile paid $164,976.57, or 

 about one fourth. 



Congressional Election, On the 2d of January, 

 Gen. Joseph Wheeler was elected, by a major- 

 ity of 3,846, to fill the vacancy in the 8th dis- 

 trict, caused by the death of Mr. Lowe. 



Miscellaneous. In February, Walter L. Bragg 

 was chosen President of the Railroad Com- 

 mission. James Crook and Charles P. Ball 

 were chosen members. In January, State 

 Treasurer Isaac H. Vincent absconded, leav- 

 ing a deficit of about $212,000. 



ALGERIA. See FRANCE. 



AMSTERDAM EXPOSITION. See WORLD'S FAIR 

 AT AMSTERDAM. 



ANGLICAN CHURCHES. An exhibit of the 

 work of the Church of England, and the vari- 

 ous societies co-operating with it, is given in 

 "The Official Year-Book of the Church of 

 England," the first volume of which was pub- 

 lished in 1883, under the sanction of the Arch- 

 bishops and Bishops of the English, Irish, and 

 Scottish Churches, and of the lower house of 

 the Convocation of Canterbury. The present 

 number of dioceses in the Church of England, 

 including the two archdioceses, is thirty-two. 

 With them are connected 17,970 clergymen, of 

 whom 11,186 are registered as "incumbents 

 resident," 1,509 as "incumbents non-resi- 

 dent," 387 as "curates in sole charge," and 

 4,888 as "assistant curates." In communion 

 with the Church of England are the Church 

 of Ireland, having twelve dioceses; the Epis- 

 copal Church of Scotland, having seven dio- 

 ceses ; sixty colonial dioceses in America, Asia, 

 Africa, Australasia, New Zealand, and other 

 colonial settlements, and the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church in the United States. (See the 

 article on PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.) 

 The official records of the several dioceses of 

 the Church of England show the number of 

 ordinations to the order of deacons, during the 

 ten years ending in 1881, to have been 6,560. 

 The number of confirmations during the same 

 period was 1,471,718. Five general societies, 



