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References.

The Reports of the various Executive Department* of Uie State. Boylt, Government of North Dakota. Chicago, 1910. Hanson, Conquest of the Missouri. New York, 1909.

Uotmer, History of the Expeditions of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1804-06. Chicago, 1906

Lountberry, Early History of North Dakota. Duluth, 1913. WiUlard, Story of the Prairies. New York, 1908.

OHIO.

Government. — Ohio was admitted into the Union on February 19, 1803. The question of a general revision of the Constitution is submitted to the people every 20 years, provision being made for the election of a Convention to draft alterations.

The Legislature consists of a Senate of 87 members and a House of Representatives of 125 members, both Houses being elected for two years. Qualified as electors are (with certain necessary exceptions) all citizens 21 years of age who have resided in the State one year, in the county 30 days, and in the township 20 days next before the election.

Ohio is represented in Congress by two Senators and 22 Representatives.

Governor :— James M. Cox, 1921-23 (10,000 dollars). Secretary of State.— Harvey C. Smith.

Ohio is divided into 88 counties. Columbus. .

The State Capital (since 1816) is

Area, Population, Instruction— Area, 41,040 square miles, of which

300 square miles is water (exclusive of 3,443 square miles of Lake Erie.) Census population on January 1, 1920, 5,759,394. The population at the date of each census was

Years

Population

Years

Population

Total ] Per sq. m.

Total

Per aq. m.

1800 1900

45,365 1-1 4,157,545 102-1

1900 1920

4,767,121 5,759,368

117*0 140-3

In 1910 the population by sex and race was : —

White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male Female.

2,376,082 2,278,815

57,995 53,457

681 91

2,434,758 2,332,363

Total.

4,654,897

111,452

645

127

4,767.121

The foreign-born population in 1910 numbered 598,374, of whom 175,095 were German, 40,062 Irish, 43,347 English, 23,692 Canadian, 72,887 Austrian.