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UNITED STATES : — MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN.

Government. — Michigan was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837. According to the revised constitution adopted in 1908 the legisla- tive authority is vested in a Senate of 32 members elected by the counties or groups of counties for 2 years, and a House of Representatives of 100 members, the electoral districts being re-arranged according to population every 10 years. Electors are all citizens over 21 years of age resident in the State for 6 months next preceding the election, and resident at the time of the election in the district, county, or township for which the election is held.

The State is represented in Congress by 2 Senators and 13 Representatives.

Governor. — Alexander J. Groesbeck, 1921-23 (5,000 dollars). Secretary of State. — Charles J. De Land.

For local government the State is organised in counties, cities, townships, and villages. There are 83 counties, each of which is a corporate body with a Board of Supervisors as its administrative authority. Cities must have each a population of not less than 3, 000, but a few which have been long incorporated have a smaller population. Cities hereafter incorporated must have at least 2,000 inhabitants and 500 persons per square mile. Villages in the legal sense have a population of at least 300 within an area of a square mile. The State Capital is Lansing.

Area, Population, Education.— Area, 57,980 square miles, of which 500 square miles is water. This is exclusive of 16,653 square miles of Lake Superior, 12,922 square miles of Lake Michigan, 9.925 square miles of Lake Huron, and 460 square miles of Lakes St. Clair and Erie. The total length of Michigan coastline is 1,620 miles.

Population 1920 census, 3,667,222.

Years

White i

Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1820 1860 1900 1910

8,722

742,314

2,405,166

2,793,058

174

6,799

15,816

17,115

8,896

749,113

2,420,982

2,810,173

o-i

13-0 42*2 489

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

-

White

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Male .... Female

1,441,281 1,843,966

9,007 8,108

•4,246 8.565

1,J.".4,534 1,355,630

Total.

2,785,247

17,115

292 7,51!)

2,S10,173

Of the total population in 1910, 595,524 were foreign-born, of whom 171,157 were from Canada, 131,583 from Germany, 42,724 from England, 37,978 from Russia, 33,471 from Holland, 20,434 from Ireland, 26,374 from Swedeu, 31,144 from Finland, 9,952 from Scotland, 7,638 from Norway, 16,860 from Italy, 31,034 from Austria, and 35,175 from all others. In 1919 the area of the Indian reservations was 191 acres, and the population 7,512.