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[Kindly furnished for The Utatef^man'' 8 Year Book by Secretaries and Auditors of States. For the States of Delaware, Mississippi, New York, and South Carolina, officers were unable or neglected to furnish data.]

Expenditures from Bonded Loans, 1898 Net debt Jan. 1, 1898 Assessed Valuation Jan. 1, 1899 States and Territories $9,357,600.00 $256,256,205.52 Alabama $&4,000.00 1,139,135.16 31,473,540.00 Arizona Territory 2,050,000.00 177,000,000.00 Arkansas 1,1.30,885,697.00 California 2,728,667.78 192,24:3,080.00 Colorado 3,240,100.00 534,465,257.00 Connecticut 1,157,500.00 93,900,823.75 Florida 8,031,600.00 411,818,911.00 Georgia 597,469.64 30,423,671.00 Idaho

778,474,910.00 Illinois 5,700,615.12 1,285,965,056.00 Indiana

218,214.23 ^44,247,782.00 Iowa 40,805.19 6:32,000.00 825,889,747.00 Kansas 539,071.47 550,105.00 552,957,768.00 Kentucky 10,877,800.00 261,545,868.00 Louisiana 2,203,000.00 329,516,244.00 Maine 3,564,512.95 603,326,096.00 Maryland 11,154,820.30 13,59S,9W.24 2,764,242,7^4.00 Massachusetts 500,000.00 500,000.00 1,105,100,000.00 Michigan 1,300,000.00 599,358.546.00 Minnesota 7,964,797.00 1,106,066,6-_'5,00 Missouri 133,969,519.35 Montana 45,402.76 1,800,000.00 167,810,764.79 Nebraska

546,512.40 23,517,245.29 Nevada

1,367,657.61 276,118,255.00 New Hampshire

39,000,000.00 812,609,000.00 New Jersey 44,841.00 5,000,000.00 39,12-2,146.00 New Me.xico Territory 298,034.00 6,090,850.00 265,867,196.00 North Carolina 845,300.00 101,131,016.00 North Dakota 1,241,665.00 1,748,008,639.00 Ohio 2,890.00 348,501.04 40,623,816.00 Oklahoma Territory 133,533,577.00 Oregon 1,025,981.93

Pennsylvania 94.753.85 2,044,911.30 390,912,580.00 Rhode Island 399,900.00 738,300.00 120,000,000.00 South Dakota 550,000.00 17,000,000.00 355,000,000.00 Tennessee 3,992,030.00 854,619,365.00 Texas 703,508.30 100,241,331.00 Utah 515,500.00 157,265,133.00 Vermont 26,746,387.70 486,447,904.00 Virginia 34,720.00 1,700,000.00 226,996,294.00 Washington 222,195,486.10 West Virginia 2,251,000.00 600.000,000.00 Wisconsin 320,000.00 30,789,291.74 Wyoming

United States, and other governments. In 1893, however, the reigning Queen, Liliuokalani, was deposed, and a provisional government formed ; in 1894 a Republic was proclaimed, with a Legislature of two Houses and a President ; and in accordance with a resolution of Congress of July 7, 1898, the islands were on Aug. 12, 1898, formally annexed to the United States. Five commissioners were appointed to recommend such legisla- tion concerning the Islands as they should deem nece.s.sary and proper, and in the beginning of December the report of the Commission with their legislative proposals was transmitted to Congress. The principal Bill provides for the erection of the islands into a Territory, to be styled the Territory of Hawaii. All whites, including Portuguese, all persons of African descent, and all descendants of Hawaiian race, either on the