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Michigan  and  Wisconsin  provide  for  the  levying  of  a  certain 
so-called  mill  tax,  three-eighths  or  four-fifths  of  a  mill,  the  pro- 
ceeds of  which  are  turned  over  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
beneficiary  institution. 
The  statistics  of  state  universities  and  other  institutions  of 
higher  education  partially  supported  by  the  state  for  the  year  ended 
June  30,  1912  (Bulletin,  1912,  No.  33),  give  a  great  many  details, 
among  them  a  table  of  property  and  income  of  state  universities 
and  other  state-aided  institutions,  showing  that  there  were  paid — 
(   Miami  University 
Ohio  <    Ohio  University 
Ohio  State  University 
By  the  United 
By  the  State. 
States. 
1,124,506 
8o,O0O 
1,918,900 
79,938 
2,314,713 
80,000 
610,093 
76,875 
651,318 
80,0OO 
478,000 
72,000 
1,131,778 
50,000 
1,552,398 
8o,000 
The  same  table  gives  the  receipts  from  the  mill  tax  and  other 
sources  of  some  of  the  states,  as  follows : 
Colorado  (4  institutions)    406,053 
Indiana     (2  institutions)    259,504 
Iowa         (3  institutions)   407,200 
Michigan  (2  institutions)    932,867 
Minnesota    689,521 
Nebraska    374, 163 
Ohio         (2  institutions)   480,828 
South  Carolina   114,113 
Utah   150,000 
Wisconsin   1,103,029 
Wyoming   84,000 
The  same  table  gives  among  the  many  private  benefactions  to 
those  state-aided  universities : 
•  California   566,000 
Nevada   1 50,000 
Cornell   1,307,111 
The  records  of  these  87  state-aided  institutions  confirm  the  belief 
that  private  benefactions  will  continue  to  supplement  in  generous 
