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UNITED STATES: — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

amountod to 60,906,000 dollars; the persons employed (owners, firm members, clerks, &c., and wage-earners) nnmbered 23,984; the cost of materials used was 30,938,000 dollars, and the output was valued at 52,840,000 dollars. Statistics of the chief industries are as follows:—

Leather ....

Foundry and machine work

Paper and pulp

Shipbuilding

Iron and steel work

Flour and grist

Capital

Wage-earners 1 Numher

Materials used Dollars

Output

Dollars

Dollars

8,249,000

3,045

8,147,000

12,079,000

7,401,000

2,210

2,402,000

4,781.000

3,314,000

646

1,587,000

2,292,000

2,888,000

1,239

981,000

1,990.000

2,107,000

710

1,059,000

1,715,000

672,000

139

1,500,000

1,752,000

The leather output comprised 11,005,292 goatskins valued at 10,232,463 dollars. Other industries are brewing and distilling, fruit-canning, and the manufacture of hosiery and knitted goods.

In 1910 the length of railway in the State was 334 miles, l»esides 875 miles of electric street railway track.

There is an active coastwise trade, particularly with New York, Avhich is connected with Wilmington by a line of steamers. Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay are connected by a canal. There is some foi-eign commerce direct through Wilmington. '^

Books of Reference.

Constitution of Delaware adopted in Convention June 4, 1897. Republished, Dover,

1907.

Reports of the various Executive Departments.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The District of Columbia is the seat of Government of the United States, and consists of an area ceded by the State of Maryland to the United States as a site for the National Capital. It was established under the authority and direction of Acts of Congress approved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to give effect to a clause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress the power: —

' To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not ex- ceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockjards, and other needful buildings.'

The authority of the United States over it became vested on the first Monday of December, 1800.

The local affairs of the District have been managed by a number of distinct forms of government. From its inception until June, 1802, they were administered by Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States; from "^ that date until July 1, 1871, the local government