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" There are 6 officers and 3 guards at the institution.
" Expense of the institution from March 1, 1892, to November 20, 1892, $18,708.82.
" The State Asylum for the Blind was established September 2, 1856, and has for its object the education of blind persons. It is not an asylum where the indigent and helpless are cared for at the public expense, but a school in which the blind receive such general education and training in industrial pursuits as will aid them to become self-supporting as other classes. When the course of study prescribed has been completed the pupils return to their homes as do the students of other schools, and like them are no longer a charge upon the State. In short, the only difference between the school for the blind and a public school is the amount of money the State expends on them. Sighted persous only receive free tuition, while the blind are fed, clothed, and transported to and from school at public expense.
" The course of study is as follows :--
" Reading by Touch in Point and Line Print, Writing in New York Point, Arithmetic, Mathematical and Physical Geography, English Grammar, Etymology, Elements. of Ancient and Modern History, Natural Philosophy, English Literature. Elements of Chemistry, Physiology, and Hygiene.
"Of the trades, piano-forte-tuning, broom-making, and upholstering are taught to the young men.
"The young ladies receive instruction in crocheting and bead-work, and learn to sew by hand and by machine.
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"The young men excel sighted persons as piano-tuners, and become very proficient at making brooms, mattresses, pillows, and bottoming chairs with cane and rattan. The bead-work and crocheting done by the young ladies would reflect credit on sighted persons. . The physical development of pupils is pro- moted by regular daily exercises in calisthenics, with dumb-bells, Indian clubs, and rings.
" Pupils whose sight can be benefited by operating on their eyes receive treat- ment from a skilled oculist connected with the institution. Nearly 100 persons have been benefited by the oculist during the last eighteen years.
"All blind persons, or persons who cannot see to read ordinary newspaper print, between 8 and 20 years of age, will be admitted to the institution.
"The school is located in Austin, and in number of teachers, size of the build- ings, the amount of philosophical, chemical, and astronomical apparatus, maps, globes, and appliances for the school-room, variety of musical instruments, etc., is the largest in the South.
"Number of pupils enrolled during 1893, 171. The average cost per capita of feeding them was about $6 per month.
" Number of officers and teachers, 19 ; number of employés, 15.
Value of buildings and grounds . $135,500.00
Value of scientific apparatus 1,250.00
Value of school and musical apparatus 9,800.00
Total
$146,550.00
" The State Deaf and Dumb Asylum is situated at the State capital, on a com- manding height south of the Colorado River, and is justly regarded as one of the most beautiful and healthful locations in the city.
"During the session of 1893, 224 pupils were enrolled up to October 31, and 210 were in actual attendance.
" The health of the institution has been very good.
" The total expense of maintaining the institution from March 1, 1893, to No- vember 1, 1893, was $25,700.08. This includes all ordinary expenses, such as board, fuel, lights, medicine, salaries of officers, teachers, and employés, and so much of clothing and transportation as was paid by the State.
"There are 17 officers and teachers, 4 experts, and 12 employés connected with the institution.
" It is the purpose of the State in establishing such institutions to give the students a practical education, and as far as possible rescue this unfortunate class from helplessness and dependence. In addition, therefore, to the instruction usual in such schools, a printing-office, bookbindery, and shoe-shop have been estab- lished for the purpose of teaching those trades to such of the pupils as have the ability and inclination to learn them. Skilled workmen, experts in their business, are in charge of each of these departments, and the progress made by the students under them has thus far been very encouraging.
"An art department was inaugurated October 5, 1887, and is now one of the most interesting and attractive features of the school. Some of the pupils acquired such skill in crayon-work before the end of the session that they were offered profit- able employment at work of that kind during vacation.
" The conditions of admission to the institution are few and simple. The age at which pupils are received and the length of time they are kept are matters left to the discretion of the superintendent. Persons not susceptible of receiving instruc- tion will not be received at all. Parents are required to furnish transportation if able to do so, otherwise it will be provided by the State.
"The school opens the first Wednesday in September and closes the first Wednesday in June of each year.
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"Pupils are required to return to their homes during vacation to give oppor- tunity to renovate and repair the buildings.
Value of buildings and grounds $157,559.09
Value of library
500.00
Total
$158,059.09
"The Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored Youth was established by act of the twentieth legislature, $50,000 being appropriated by that act for the purchase of grounds and the erection and furnishing of suitable buildings. An admirable site, embracing 100 acres, two and one-half miles northwest of Austin, was selected.
"The buildings consist of the new asylum building proper and of several other buildings purchased with the site, and which are used for dormitories for the young men, workshops, sewing-rooms, etc. The new building is a model of elegance, comfort, and convenience. It contains dormitories for the young ladies, the super- intendent's office, recitation- and music-rooms, etc. It is lighted by electricity and heated by steam, the power for which is derived from a plant on the premises. A fine artcsian well supplies abundance of pure water for all purposes.
"Conditions of admission and general rules of government prevailing in the asylums for the whites obtain also in this. .
"All the text-books for the blind are in New York Point or in Line Print. Pupils read by touch in Point and Line and write by Point.
"The studies pursued this year embrace reading, arithmetic, writing, geog- raphy, language, history, and physiology.
"The number of pupils enrolled in 1893 was 105 ; of these 54 were blind and 41 deaf-mutes. The present attendance is 79. Number of officers, 3 ; teachers, 5 ; experts, 2 ; employés, 5.
Value of grounds and buildings $34,000.00
Value of library .
700,00
Value of school and musical apparatus 1,100,00
Total expenditures from March 1, 1593. to November 1, 1893 11,095.35"
The various public buildings at the State capital for the use of the government in its several departments are commodious and imposing structures, but the new State capitol is so notable a building that it merits special mention. The old capitol erected in 1856 was destroyed by accidental fire in November, 1881, and for a time the offices of the government were kept in a temporary structure built by the State at the head of Congress Avenue in Austin. Very soon active steps were taken to build a new capitol suitable in dimensions and grandeur to the dignity and wealth of the State. Three millions of acres of publie land had been appropriate.l for that purpose, and an arrangement was finally consummated by which a syndi- cate of Chicago capitalists agreed to take the land in exchange for a complete ! State-house built on the plans and specifications furnished by the State. The structure was finally completed and dedicated by a grand international military drill and display, in May, 1888.
Its description is briefly as follows :-
" Dimensions .- Length, 566 feet 6 inches, inclusive of porticos. Width, 209 feet to inches at widest point. Height, 311 feet from grade-line to top of status on dome. Contains 25% moms, and is second only in size to the capitol at Wash- ington, and is the seventh largest building in the world.
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" The State executive offices are located on the first floor, as follows : governor, secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, ad- jutant-general, attorney-general, commissioner of agriculture, insurance, statistics, and history, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, and State geologist. Also the police department and offices of the electrician and janitor.
" The Senate chamber and hall of House of Representatives, State library and reading-rooms, reception- and consultation-rooms of the governor, president of the Senate, speaker of the House, the legislative committee rooms, and the office of the State inspector of oils are located on the second floor.
" The Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, law libraries, galleries of the House of Representatives and Senate chamber, and reporters' galleries, and marshal's, clerks', and other offices of the judicial department, are located on the third floor.
"The fourth floor consists of twenty-three unassigned rooms.
"All the conveniences necessary to a complete modern structure have been incorporated in the building.
"The following brief description of the capitol is copied from the 'Official Guide to the Texas Capitol,' by Charles N. Mclaughlin :--
"'The building is located on a commanding elevation, near the centre of the city of Austin, in the square originally selected for the capitol of the republic of Texas.
"'It is shaped like a Greek cross, with projecting centre and flanks, having a rotunda and dome at the intersection of the main corridors.
"'The exterior walls are built of Texas red granite from the inexhaustible quar- ries of Burnet County. This granite is pronounced by experts to be equal to any in the world, both in beauty and imperishability. The stately ideas of ancient builders have been blended with the useful of the modern, and the whole concep- tion and aim seems to have been to meet the practical demands of a progressive and cultured people.
" ' Wherever it was practicable Texas material has been used in the building, and the fact that nearly all the material used is native is an illustration of the won- derful and varied resources of Texas. Besides the granite, a vast amount of other material, including stone, lime, wood, brick, etc., and many other articles, were secured in Texas, so that it may be said the State-house is built for Texas land out of Texas material.' "
It may seem a strange and startling transition from a description of the State's palatial council halls to the gloomy corridors of its prison walls and the considera- tion of its wretchedness and crime. And yet the juxtaposition is not so inappro- priate as it may at first appear. A great novelist has said : " Well might these be so near to the halls of a people's legislative palace, -near to the heart of every legislator for a people must be the mighty problemi how to increase a people's splendor and its virtue, and how to diminish its penury and its crime."
The problem of penitentiary management was for a long time the most per- plexing the State had to deal with. The lease system was practised for a while, but was abandoned in 1883, and now the convicts are employed on State account or by private contract. There are two State penitentiaries, one located at Hunts- ville and the other at Rusk. Forces of convicts are worked in some instances out- side the prison walls, on farms and railroads, sometimes on private contract, and sometimes by the State on its own account, considerable areas of sugar lands owned by the State having been thus profitably farmed. Various industries are prosecuted at the prisons, and the revenues therefrom in the future may prove to be very substantial.
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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF TEXAS.
At the Huntsville Penitentiary there is the wagon department, in which are built wagons, drays, cane, and log wagons, buggies, hacks, etc. In the cabinet department are made chairs and furniture, mostly of a cheap class.
In the machine-rooms are made engines, boilers, hydrants, etc. In the foundry various kinds of castings.
There is a factory in which is manufactured mostly the stripes for all the clothing for the convicts. In the shoe- and tailor-shops are made convict shoes and clothes, and there is also done on order some citizens' work.
At the Rusk Penitentiary the principal industries are the making of pig-iron, manufacture of castings of various kinds, and making of cast-iron water- and gas- pipe. A large number of convicts are engaged in making charcoal and digging iron-ore for the smelting-furnace.
The State owns and works on State account with convicts a farm about two miles from the Huntsville Penitentiary, on which are raised cotton for the factory, corn for farmi and prison consumption, and vegetables for the prison.
In connection with the Rusk Penitentiary some of the land belonging to the State is used for raising fruit and vegetables for the convicts, and other lands have been rented contiguous to the prison, on which has been raised corn, peas, ctc., for prison use.
Another farm belonging to the State, in Fort Bend County, on Oyster Creek, and known as Harlem, is worked on State account, and raises cotton, corn, and sugar for the general market. All of these farms are operated with second- and third-class convict labor,-convicts not fit for much other kind of labor.
There are two farms worked on the share system, by which the State furnishes the labor and the owners of the farms the land and teams, and crop divided.
The value of State property belonging to the penitentiaries is fully set forth in the report of the superintendent, up to November 1, 1890, as follows :-
Huntsville Penitentiary $769,096.72
Rusk Penitentiary
720,245.62
State Farm, Harlem 266,074.83
Rogers's share farm 21,062.48
Contract farms 9,702.32
Railroad trains 10,152.27
State penitentiaries, cash on hand, etc. 43,621.2S
Total valuation of penitentiary property November 1, 1892 $2,193,041.68
Total valuation of penitentiary property November 1, 1890 1,840,955.52
Increase in valuation of penitentiary property in the past two years $352,086.16
The financial agent. Mr. R. W. Finley, furnishes the following statement of account for the year ending November 1, 1892 :-
Receipts and Disbursements Texas State Penitentiaries for the Year November 1, 1891, to November 1, 1892.
Cash on hand November 1, 1890 $37,816.43
Receipts from all sources 1,375,022.63
$1,258,608.21
Disbursements, all sources
Balance on hand November 1, IS92 124,260.85
$1,412,869.06 $1,412,869.06
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WOOTEN-RESULTS OF FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS.
A few statistical tables are collected at the close of the chapter, showing the criminal population of the State at various periods, the results of police efforts to suppress crime, the operations of our courts in that direction, and such other data as are obtainable on the subject.
An outline has now been given of the progress of Texas in the various depart- inents of life and enterprise that go to constitute the civilization of a commonwealth, and an incomplete presentation has been made of the present approximate results of her fifty years of statehood as an American State. The aggregate accomplish- ment in all directions has been most satisfactory and encouraging. By comparison with the achievements of the other communities composing the Union of States, Texas has all reasons to be proud of her career. She was the sixteenth State ad- mitted by the Congress of the United States, making with the original thirteen colonial States twenty-nine in all in the Union at that date. Between 1845 and 1850 two others were admitted,-Wisconsin and California, -- and at the taking of the census of 1850 Texas stood twenty-fifth in population among the United States. In 1860 she was twenty-third ; in 1870 she was nineteenth ; in 1880 she had reached eleventh ; and in 1890 she stood seventh, being beaten for sixth place by Massa- chusetts by only 3480. The States ranking her in population in 1890 were in the order named : New York, with a population of 5,997,853 ; Pennsylvania, 5,258,014 ; Illinois, 3,826, 351 ; Ohio, 3,672,316 ; Missouri, 2,679, 184 ; and Massachusetts, 2,238,913. The recent election of 1896 clearly indicates by the popular votes of the several States that Texas has now a greater population than either Missouri or Massachusetts, and the census of 1900 bids fair to place her fourth or fifth in the list of the most populous States in the Union. Her other claims to superiority are sufficiently attested by her resources, enterprise, and capacity for growth, as shown by this short and imperfect sketch.
STATISTICAL TABLES.
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STATISTICAL TABLES.
791
POLITICAL STATISTICS .- TABLE No. 1.
CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF TEXAS FROM 1691 TO 1897-206 YEARS.
SPANISH-1691 TO 1822-131 YEARS.
Domingo Teran.
Carlos de Franquis.
Rafael Pacheco.
Don Gaspardo de Anaya.
Prudencia Basterra.
Manuel Muñoz.
Don Martin de Alarconne.
Justo Boneo.
Juan Bautista el Guazabel.
Marquis de Aguayo.
Jacinto de Barrios.
Antonio Cordero.
Fernando de Almazan.
Antonio de Martos.
Manuel de Salcedo.
Melchoir de Mediavilla.
Juan Antonio Bustillos.
Juan Maria, Baron de Ri- perda.
Christoval Dominguez. Antonio Martinez.
MEXICAN-IS22 TO 1835-13 YEARS.
Trespalacios
IS22 José Maria Viesca . 1828
Don Luciano de Garcia IS23
José Maria Letona 1831
Rafael Gonzales (Coahuila and Texas) . IS25 Francisco Vidauri . IS34
Victor Blanco. IS26
TEXAN-1835 TO 1846-11 YEARS.
Henry Smith, Provisional Governor 1835 to 1836
David G. Burnet, President ad interim
1836
Sam Houston, Constitutional President
IS36
Mirabeau B. Lamar, President
183S
Sam Houston, President
1841
Anson Jones, President
1844
STATE GOVERNMENT SINCE ANNEXATION-IS46 TO 1897-51 YEARS.
J. Pinckney Henderson 18.16 A. J. Hamilton ( Provisional) . . 1865 to 1866
George T. Wood
IS47 James W. Throckmorton . 1866 to 1867
P. H. Bell.
1849 to 1851 E. M. Pease ( Provisional) IS67 to IS;0
P. H. Bell.
I851 to 1853
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E. J. Davis IS70 to 1874
E. M. Pease 1853 to 1855
Richard Coke IS74 to 1876
E. M. Pense .
1855 to 1857
R. B. Hubbard IS76 to r$79
H. R. Runnels
1857 to 1859
O. M. Roberts
1879 to 1853
Sam Houston
IS59 to 1861 John Ireland. 1883 to 1887
Edward Clark . IS61 L. S. Ross ISS7 to IS91
F. R. Lubbock
IS61 to 1863 ! J. S. Hogg 1891 to 1895
Pendleton Murrah 1863 to 1865 C. A. Culberson .
IS95 to 1899
GENERAL ELECTIONS IN TEXAS FROM 1835 TO 1896, INCLUSIVE.
In the Consultation of Texas, November 11, 1835, Henry Smith was elected Governor and J. W. Robinson Lieutenant-Governor. The vote in the Consultation was :
FOR GOVERNOR.
Votes.
Votes.
Henry Smith 31 Stephen F. Austin .
22
Manuel de Sandoval.
Domingo Cabello.
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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF TEXAS.
FIRST GENERAL ELECTION UNDER REPUBLIC, IN 1836.
FOR PRESIDENT.
Votes.
Votes.
Sam Houston
3,585 Scattering. .
5
Stephen F. Austin
551
Against Constitution
223
Henry Smith
144
For Constitution, 1836
3,199
T. J. Green
42
SECOND GENERAL ELECTION, 1838.
FOR PRESIDENT.
M. B. Lamar
6,995 | Robert M. Wilson . 252
THIRD GENERAL ELECTION, 1841.
FOR PRESIDENT.
Sam Houston . 7,915 | David G. Burnet 3,616
FOURTH GENERAL ELECTION, 1844.
FOR PRESIDENT.
Anson Jones
6,443
Edward Burleson 5,054
FIRST STATE ELECTION, 1845.
FOR GOVERNOR.
J. P. Henderson .
7,853
Scattering
52
J. B. Miller 1,673 1
SECOND STATE ELECTION, 1847.
FOR GOVERNOR.
George T. Wood
7,15.4 J. J. Robinson 379
J. B. Miller .
5,106 | Scattering
852
N. H. Darnell . 1,276
THIRD STATE ELECTION, 1849.
FOR GOVERNOR.
P. H. Bell
10,319 For amendment to Constitution . 15,852
George T. Wood
S. 764 Against amendment to Constitution . 3,139 John T. Mills 2,632 |
FOURTH STATE ELECTION, 1851.
FOR GOVERNOR.
P. H. Bell
13.595 B. H. Epperson 2,971
M. T. Johnson
5,262 T. J. Chambers 2,320
John A. Green 4,061 : Scattering 100
FIFTH STATE ELECTION, IS53.
FOR GOVERNOR.
E. M. Pease
13.091 L. D. Evans 4.6,7
W. B. Ochiltrec .
9.178 T. J. Chambers 2,449
George T. Wood
5,983 John Dancy 315
793
STATISTICAL TABLES.
SIXTH STATE ELECTION, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR. Votes. Votes. 26,336 ' M. T. Johnson Sug
E. M. Pease
D. C. Dickson 18,968 | George T. Wood 226
SEVENTH STATE ELECTION, 1857. FOR GOVERNOR.
H. R. Runnels . Sam Houston . 28,628
32,552
EIGHTH STATE ELECTION, 1859.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Sam Houston 36,227 : Scattering
61
H. R. Runnels
27,500
NINTH STATE ELECTION, 1861.
FOR GOVERNOR.
F. R. Lubbock .
21,854
T. J. Chambers
13,759
Edward Clark
21,730
TENTH STATE ELECTION, 1863.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Pendleton Murrah
.
17,51I
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Scattering
1,070
T. J. Chambers
12,455
ELEVENTH STATE ELECTION, 1866.
FOR GOVERNOR.
J. W. Throckmorton
49,277
E. M. Pease
12,168
TWELFTH STATE ELECTION, 1869.
FOR GOVERNOR.
E. J. Davis .
39,90I Hamilton Stuart 3.
A. J. Hamilton
39,092
THIRTEENTH STATE ELECTION, 1873.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Richard Coke $5,549 E. J. Davis · 42,633
FOURTEENTH STATE ELECTION, 1876.
Richard Coke
FOR GOVERNOR. 150,58I Wm. Chambers 47,719
FIFTEENTH STATE ELECTION, IS;S.
FOR GOVERNOR.
O. M. Roberts
15S,933 A. B. Norton 23,402
W. H. Hamman
55,002
Scattering
99
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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF TEXAS.
SIXTEENTH STATE ELECTION, ISSO.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Votes.
O. M. Roberts
166, 101 W. H. Hamman
33,721
SEVENTEENTH STATE ELECTION, ISS2.
FOR GOVERNOR.
John Ireland . . 150,809 | J. B. Robertson
George W. Jones . 102,50I
334
EIGHTEENTH STATE ELECTION, 1884.
FOR GOVERNOR.
John Ireland .
212,234
A. B. Norton
25,557
George W. Jones.
88,450
NINETEENTH STATE ELECTION, 1886.
FOR GOVERNOR.
L. S. Ross
223,776 | E. L. Dohoney
19, 186
A. M. Cochran .
65,236
Scattering .
102
TWENTIETH STATE ELECTION, IS88.
FOR GOVERNOR.
L. S. Ross . 250,33S ! Marion Martin 98,417
TWENTY-FIRST STATE ELECTION, ISgo.
FOR GOVERNOR.
J. S. Hogg .
262,432 | E. C. Heath
2,235
W. Flanagan .
77,742 |
TWENTY-SECOND STATE ELECTION, 1892.
FOR GOVERNOR.
J. S. Hogy.
190,.186 ' A. J. Houston 1,322
George Clark
133,395 D. M. Prendergast
1,605
T. L. Nugent
108,483 . Scattering
175
TWENTY-THIRD STATE ELECTION, 1894.
FOR GOVERNOR.
C. A. Culberson 207,167 T. L. Nugent 152,731
W. K. Makemson 54,520 , J. M. Dunn 2, 195
J. B. Schmitz 5,026 Scattering 1,0-6
TWENTY-FOURTH STATE ELECTION, 1896.
FOR GOVERNOR.
C. A. Culberson
295,528 | J. C. Kearby 238,692
Clark 1,576 Scattering 495
Votes.
E. J. Davis 64,382
STATISTICAL TABLES.
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POLITICAL STATISTICS .- TABLE No. 2.
Showing the Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives from 1846 to 1897, inclusive.
LFGISI A-
NAMES.
DATE OF MEETING.
DATE OF ADJOURNMENT.
EXTRA SESSION MET.
EXTRA SESSION ADJOURNED.
1
William E. Cramp
Feb. 16, 1846
May 13, 1845
2
James W. Henderson
Dee. 13, IN47
Mar. 20, 1548
3
C. G. Feenan
Nov. 5. 1849
Feb. 11, 1950
4
D. C. Dickson .
Nov.
3. 1851
Feb.
16, 1852
5
H. R. Runnels.
Nov.
7, 1553
Feb.
15. 1854
6
H. P. Bee
Nov.
5. 1855
Feb.
July
17. 1856
Sept. 1. 1856
8
M. D. K. Taylor
Nov.
7, 1559
Feb.
13. 1800
Jan.
21. 1861
April 9, 1861
9
N. H. Darnell .
Nov.
4, 1561
Jan.
14, 1862
S May
9, 1964
May 28, 1864
1c
M. D. K. Taylor
Nov.
2, 1863
Dec.
16, 1863
¿ Oct. . 17, 1864
Nov. 15, 1864
121
Tra H. Evans ?.
April 26. 1570
Aug.
15, 1870
13
M. D. K. Taylor
Jan.
14. 1573
June
4, 1873
14
G. M. Bryan
Jan. 13. 1474
May
4. 1874
T. R. Bonner
April 18, 15,6
Aug. 21, 1876
16
J. H. Cochran.
Tan.
14, 1879
April 24. 1879
17
George R. Reeves
Jan.
11, 1581
April 1, 1881
IS
C. R. Gibson
Jan.
9. 1553
April 13, ISS3
Jan.
S, 1884
Feb.'
6, 1884
. I .. L. Foster
Jan.
13. 1505
Mar. 31. 1885
20
George C. l'endleton
Jan.
11. 1887
April 4, 1887
April 16, 1838
May 15, 1988
21
F. P. Alexander
Jan.
S, 1889
April 6, 18$9
22
R. I. Milner
Jan.
13. 191
April 13, 189:
Mar. 14
1992
April 12, 1892
23
John H. Cochrau
Jan.
10, 1893
May 9. 1893
24
T. S. Smith
Jan.
8. IS95
April 30, 1895
Oct.
1, 1895
Óct.
15, 1895
25
L. T. Dashiell
Jan.
12, 1597
Feb.
2, IS63
Mar. 6, 1863
I N. M. Burford .
Aug.
6. 1866
Nov. 13, 1866
Sept. 12, 1971
Dec.
2, 1871
Jari.
12. 1875
Mar. 15, 1875
7
W. S. Taylor
Nov.
2, 1857
Feh.
4. 1856
16, 1558
1 The twelfth legislature was called together on April 26, 1870. The regular time of meeting as provided by the Constitution was January 10, 18;1. This legislature also met in second called session September 12, 1571, and adjourned December 2. 1871, W. H. Sinclair was speaker of the adjourned session.
" First regular session January 10, IS71.
POLITICAL STATISTICS .- TABLE No. 3.
Showing the Counties of the State, for whom Named, from what Takea, when Created, when Organized, Area in Square Miles, County Seats, and Population in 1880 and 1890, respectively.
COUNTIRS.
NAMED FOR
COUNTIES CREATED FROM
WHEN CREATED.
WHIN ORGANIZED.
AREA
MILES.
COUNTY SRAT.
POPULATION
IN ISSO.
IN 1890.
DECREASE.
INCREASE.
Anderson . .
Kenneth L. Anderson
Ilouston .
Mar. 24, 1846
July 13. 1846
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