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State during the year. The statistics, while 

 approximately correct, are quite unsatisfactory, 

 for many county clerks fail to make correct 

 returns from all the districts, and some fail to 

 make any report whatever. Jn referring to 

 colored schools, the superintendent says : 



The prejudice heretofore existing against colored 

 schools and the education of the colored youth, to 

 give them equal advantages with the whites, as the 

 law directs, has in a great measure disappeared, and 

 the colored schools are maintained for the same length 

 of terms as the white schools. Sometimes a case arises 

 where the people or board refuse to open a colored 

 school as the law directs, but only a few such cases 

 have been reported to my office. Nearly all the col- 

 ored schools are taught by colored teachers, and, so 

 far as at present known, they are all colored. This 

 plan is less objectionable and works much better than 

 otherwise. 



ernor, Thomas T. Crittenden, Democrat ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Robert A. Campbell ; Secre- 

 tary of State, Michael K. McGrath ; Treasurer, 

 Philip E. Chappell ; Auditor, John Walker ; At- 

 torney-General, Daniel H. Mclntyre ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Schools, William E. Coleman ; 

 Register of Lands, Robert McOulloch ; Super- 

 intendent of Insurance Department, John F. 

 Williams; Railroad Commissioners, George C. 

 Pratt, Archibald Sevier, and Jas. Harding. Su- 

 preme Court : Chief-Justice, Warwick Hough ; 

 Associate Justices, John E. Henry, Elijah H. 

 Norton, Robert D. Ray, and Thos. A. Sherwood. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met Jan- 

 nary 3d, and adjourned April 2d. 



Among the acts passed are the following : 



To prevent the change of rates for freight without 

 notice thereof by railroad companies hi this State : rri i +. r> i A 1.1 ^ 



to protect owners of property shipped for sale on /he last General Assembly made appropri- 

 commission, and to punish persons for making false ations for educational purposes as follow : 



returns of such sales ; concerning persons charged One fourth of revenue $892.242 14 



with crime and becoming insane between indictment Interest on school fund 174,540 00 



and trial, and to provide for their disposition; to State moneys, 1883 566,78214 



protect Government lights and light-house stations *f timated for 1884 570,000 



on the navigable waters of this State ; to prevent and SniveS import ! 8> M 840 So 



punish malicious mischief ; to provide for counting, Agricultural College debt . . '. 23,'000 00 



comparing with the list of voters, and examining School of Mines, snpport of.. ................. 15,'ooo 00 



ballots in cases of contested elections ; creating a Normal School. Kirksville 20.000 00 



State Board of Health, and defining its duties and Normal School, repairs 15,965 80 



powers ; relating to the deposits of foreign insurance Normal School, Warrensburg 20,000 00 



r=i irsa:fl3sS SSS^ : E li 



souri ; to authorize corporations which have been or Lincoln Institute 12,500 00 



hereafter may be organized for the purpose of reclaim- Kepairs for same 3,500 00 



ing swamp and overflowed lands to levy in certain Deaf and Dumb Institute 92,500 00 



contingencies an additional tax of fifteen cents per Repairs for same 26,000 



acre per annum ; to regulate the practice of dentistry g hnd . A8 / lum 5 2,000 



in the State.; to regulate the practice of medicine ^ase'of SSitod. I '. '. \ '. :::"":"'."" 818^ 8! 



and surgery, in the State ; to tacilitate the assessment 



and collection of revenue; revising and amending Total appropriation $1,843,83093 



the general laws' in relation to roads and highways, 



and providing for establishing, opening, repairing) Th e folio wing Deport is made by the County 



and vacating the same ; to provide for the construe- School Commissioners, showing the number of 



tion of turnpike-roads ; to establish a Bureau of children of school age in the State : 



Labor Statistics, and inspection of factories, mines, 



and workshops throughout the State, and to provide 



for the appointment of an inspector of the same. 



Two amendments to the Constitution were Total Jggjgg 



proposed, to be Submitted tO the people in No- White children enrolled 487,509 



vember, 1884. One of these provides for the Colored chudren enrolled 28 ' 820 



raising of a tax of not over fifteen cents on the Total 511,329 



the dty, and establishes at Kansas City an ad- ^ ^ f g tember the Fund Commissioners 

 ditional appellate court, to be known a* the haged a Xetired 5 72 State bonds of $1,000 



Sn n P tf r $rt , aVm8 'J UTW * 1G - each, which leaves still outstanding of the bond- 

 tion over the residue of the State, and consist- d ^ f h s $13,231,000. The remain- 

 ing of three judges It also gives the Legis- der f h debt ^^ U re as follows: 

 lature power to create one additional Court of 



Appeals,andtoregulatethejurisdictionofthese } $4,ooo jag $242,000 



courts. Other important acts are the so-called its? 3 1?7 ooo isot' ."! :.'."." .'i! .' .' Sooo 



" Downing high-license " law, and the act ere- lass!!!!""!"!" s^ooo 1S95 '. 628.000 



ating a commission of three judges to relieve 18S9 '" 848,0001911.... 



the Supreme Court. The general appropria- The assessed value of the taxable property 



tion bill provides for $6,134.301, and the spe- last year was $656,250,413, an increase of 



cial appropriations $550,000, $100,000 being to $6,983,171 over the valuation of 1882, and $54,- 



extend and repair the State University. 528,000, over that of 1881. The State taxes 



Education. The report of the Superintendent collected last year amounted to $3,345,378. 



of Public Schools shows that decided improve- Temperance Convention. The Prohibition Alli- 



ment was made in the pubic schools of the ance of the State met in Warrensburg on the 



