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UNITED STATES ! — NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA.

Government.— North Carolina is one of the thirteen original States of the Union. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 50 members, and a House of Representatives of 120 members, elected for two years.

All citizens of the United States, resident in the State one year, and in the county six months next before the election, and registered, have a vote. For registration, the requirement is ability to read any section of the Constitution in the English language.

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

Governor. — Cameron Morrison, 1921-25 (6,500 dollars).

Secretary of State. — J. Bryan Grimes.

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

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 52,426 square miles, of

which 3,686 square miles is water. Population of census in 1920, 2,556,486.

Tears

White 1 Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1820 1900 1910

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

638,829 1,893,810 2,206,287

13-2 38-9 45-3

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

-

White

754,852 745,659

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Kale. Femal e

339,581 358,262

4,043 3,890

1,098,476 1,107,811

Total

1,500,511

697,843

82 7,851

2,206,287

Of the total in 1910, 6,092 were foreign-born, 1,074 being German, and 940 English. Urban population formed 14*4 per cent, of the whole. Cities (with population in 1920) are: Charlotte, 46,338; Winston-Salem, 48,395; Wilmington, 33,372 ; Durham, 21,719 ; Asheville, 28,504 ; Raleigh, (capital), 24,418 ; Greensboro, 19,861. Indian reservations in 1919 covered an area of 98 square miles and had a population of 2,235.

About half of the church members are Baptist, and one-third Methodist. The others are mostly Presbyterian, Lutheran, or Protestant Episcopal.

School attendance is compulsory. Separate schools are provided for white and for coloured children. In 1918 the 7,877 public elementary schools of the State had 14.550 teachers, and 634,250 enrolled pupils. There were 248 public high schools with 639 teachers and 12,788 pupilsin 1918. Teachers are trained in 9 public normal schools, with 105 teachers and 1,862 students in 1911. Total expenditure in 1918, 7,521,954 dollars.

Higher instruction is given in 15 university and college institutions, the more important of which are the University of North Carolina at Chapel