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DELAWARE.

Government. — Delaware is one of the thirteen original Statei of the Union. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 17 members elected for four years and a House of Representatives of 35 members elected for two years. Senators must be 27 years of age, and Representatives 24 ; both must be citizens who have resided three years in the State, and one year in the electoral district immediately preceding the election.

With necessary exceptions all citizens, registered as voters, who have resided in the State one year, in the county three months, and in the district 30 days next preceding the election have the right to vote. But no person who shall attain the age of 21 after the year 1900 has the right to vote unless he is able to read English and to write his name ; United States soldiers and sailors merely stationed in the State are not considered resident.

Delaware is represented in Congress by two Senators and one Representative.

Governor.— William D. Denney, 1921-25. (4,000 dollars.)

Secretary of State. — Alden R. Benson.

The State capital is Dover (population 3,720 in 1915). Delaware it divided into three counties.

Area, Population, Instruction. — Area 2,870 square miles, of which 405 square miles is water. Census population on Jan. 1, 1920, 223,003.

Years

White i

Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1800 1900 1910 1920

49,85-2 154,038 171,141 192,662

14,421 30,697 31,181 30,341

64,273 184,735 202,322 223.003

32-7

940

103-0

113-5

1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1910 the population by sex and colour was : —

White

87,387 83,715

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male Female.

16,011 15,170

34

3

2

108,435 98,887

Total

171.102

31,181

34

5

202.322

The foreign-bom (1910) numbered 17,420, of whom 2,893 were Irish, 2,572 German, 1,555 English, and 2,893 Italian.

The largest city in the State is Wilmington, with a census population of 110,168in 1920. Other towns (1915), Dover, 3,720: Milford, 2,603. Of the total population in 1910, 48 - per cent, was urban.