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UNITED STATES : — NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA.

Governmeilt. — The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 50 members, and a House of Representatives of 120 members, elected for two years.

All male citizens of the United States, resident in the State two years, and in the county six months next before the election, and registered, have a vote. For registration, the requirements are payment of poll-tax and ability to read and write in English (a test not imposed on descendants of voters of 1867).

The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and ten Repre- sentatives.

Governor. — Locke Craig, 1913-17 (5,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — J. I5ryan Grimes.

North Carolina is divided into 100 counties The State Capital is Raleigh.

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 52,250 square miles, of

which 3,670 square miles is water.

Years

White 1 I Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1820 1900 1910

419,200 1 219,629 1,269,341 624,469 1,508,444 697,843

638,829

1,893,810 2,206,287

13-2 39-0 45-3

1 Including' Indians and Asiatics.

In 1910 there were 1,098,471 males and 1,107,816 females. In 1900 the population by sex and birth was : —

White

Negro

Asiatic

49 2

Indian

Total

Male .... Female. ..

632,155 631,448

303,624 320,845

2,849 2,838

938,677 955,133

Total. ..

1,263,603

624,469

51

5,687

1,893,810

Of the total, 4,492 were foreign-born, 1,191 being German, and 904 English. Cities (with population in 1910) are : "Wilmington, 25,748 ; Charlotte, 34,014; Asheville, 18,762; Raleigh (capital), 19,218; Greensboro, 15,895; Winston, 17,167 ; Durham, 18,241.

About half of the church members are Baptist, and three-fifths Metho- dist. The others are mostly Presbyterian, Lutheran, or Protestant Eiiiscopal.

In several counties school attendance is compulsory. Separate schools are provided for white and for eolonred children. In 1911 the public ele- mentary schools of the State had 11,451 teachers, and 528,413 enrolled pupils. There were 177 public high scliools with 273 teachers and 6,514 pupil<=. Teachers are trained in 5 public normal schools, with 78 teachers and 1,089 students.

Higher instruction is given in 15 university and college institutions, the more important of which are tlie University of North Carolina (founded in 1795) in 1910 had 101 professors and 821 students : and the Agricultural and Mechanical College (founded in 1889) had 42 professors and 446 pupils. There are large sectarian colleges, and also schools and colleges for coloured youths.

Charity. — "Within the State there are (apart from almshouses and asylums for the insane, &c.) 57 benevolent institutions, six of which