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UNITED STATES : — INDIANA

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Administrative Departments of the State.

Childs (M. L.), Actual Government in Illinois. Chicago, 1917.

Fairlie (J. A.), Taxation and Revenue System of Illinois. Chicago.

FinUy (J. H.), Illinois. In "American Commonwealth" Series. Boston, Mass.

Greene (E. B.), The Government of Illinois. In " Handbooks of American Govern- ment" Series. New York and London, 1904.

Mather (J. F.), The Making of Illinois. Chicago, 1900.

Nevin$ (A.), Illinois (American College and University Scries). New York and Oxford, 1916

Quaife (Milo M.), Chicago and the Old North-West, 1673-1835. Chicago and Cambridge. 1913.— Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years ago. Chi. ago, 1918.

Shaw (Albert), Local Government in Illinois. Baltimore, 1883.

Sparling (S. A.), Municipal History of Chicago. Madison, 1898.

INDIANA.

Government. — Indiana was admitted into the Union on December 11, 1816. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 50 members elected for four years, and a House of Representatives of 100 members elected for two years. Sessions are held biennially. All citizens of the United States who have resided in the State two years and in their county or district one year next preceding the election are eligible to sit in either House ; but Senators must be 25, and Representatives 21 years of age.

The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and 13 Represeu tatives.

Governor.— Warren T. McCray, 1921-25 (8,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — Ed. Jackson.

The State is divided into 92 counties and 1,016 townships. The State Capital is Indianapolis.

Area and Population. — Area 36,354 square miles, of which 309 square miles is water. Population according to census of 1920 is 2,930,390.

Years

White i

Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1860 1900 1910

1,339,000 2,458,957 2,640,556

11,428 57,505 60,320

1,350,428 2,516,462

2,700,876

37 6 70-1 74-9

The population by

1 Including Indians and Asiatics, sex and birth in 1910 was : —

White

1,351,792 1,288,169

2,639,961

Negro

i Indians and Asiatic

Total

Male Female.

•


 * n,044

29,276

459 136

1,883,295 1,817,581

Total

60,320

595

2,700,876

Of the total in 1910, 159,322 were foreign born, 62,177 being from Germany, 11,830 from Austria, 14,370 from Hungary, 11,266 from Ireland, and 9,780 from England. Urban population formed 42*4 per cent, of whole.