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 KENTUCKY 803 superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education. The funds for its support are derived chiefly from the annual revenue tax of 25 cents, and 20 cents in addi- tion on each $100 in value of the taxable prop- erty owned or held by colored persons, which ' tax shall be applied to no other purpose what- ever ; a capitation tax of $1 on each male col- ored person above the age of 21 years ; and all the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed upon and collected from colored persons due the state, except the amount thereof allowed by law to attorneys for the commonwealth. The act in effect appropriates all taxes levied on colored people or their property to the edu- cation of colored children. The total taxable property of the colored people of the state in 1873 was $3,569,040, and the number of male colored persons over 21 years of age was 45,- 604. The number of colored children of school age reported to the auditor in 1873 was 41,- 289. In 1873 the whole number of persons of school age in the state was 416,763, and the number of schools 5,381. The state teachers' association meets annually, and teachers' in- stitutes are held at intervals during the year. According to the census of 1870, the total num- ber of white children in the state between the ages of 5 and 18 years was 454,539, and of colored 78,720. Of the latter, only 7,702 were attending school. There were 5,149 education- al institutions, public and private, with an ag- gregate of 6,346 teachers, of whom 3,972 were males and 2,374 females, and 245,139 pupils, of whom 125,734 were males and 119,405 females. The total income of all these institutions was $2,538,429, of which $393,015 was derived from endowment, $674,992 from taxation and public funds, and $1,470,422 from tuition and other sources. There were 4,727 public schools, with 5,351 teachers and 218,240 pupils; the income amounted to $1,150,461, of which $24,885 was from endowment, $604,905 from taxation and public funds, and $520,661 from tuition and other sources. The number of colleges was 42, having 223 teachers and 5,864 pupils ; and there were 95 academies, with 286 teachers and 6,224 pupils, and 195 private schools, with 302 teachers and 7,948 pupils. Kentucky has (1874) no state normal school, but efforts have been made for the establishment of one. Normal instruction, however, is afforded by several colleges. The Kentucky university, established in 1858, embraces a college of arts, the agri- cultural and mechanical college, the college of the Bible, a commercial college, and a college of law. Each college is under the immediate government of its own faculty and presiding officer. The general supervision of the uni- versity is committed to the regent, who is cho- sen from the curators. In 1865 the agricul- tural and mechanical college, established by means of the congressional land grant, was made a part of the university, and the citizens of Lexington having given $100,000 for the purchase of an experimental and model farm and the erection of buildings for the agricul- tural college, the university was removed to that city. The tract of land occupied by the agricultural college contains 433 acres, and em- braces Ashland, once the home of Henry Clay. The endowment and real estate of the uni- versity amount to about $800,000. Students are employed in industrial pursuits at a good rate of compensation. The Kentucky military institute in Frankfort, organized in 1846, is under the direction of a board of visitors ap- pointed by the governor. Among the most prominent educational institutions are Berea college, at Berea, at which students are received without regard to sex or color ; Bethel college (Baptist), at Kussellville ; Cecilian college (Ro- man Catholic), at Elizabethtown ; Centre col- lege (Presbyterian), at Danville ; Eminence col- lege, at Eminence, open to both sexes ; George- town college (Baptist), at Georgetown ; and St. Mary's college (Roman Catholic), at St. Mary's Station. The leading institutions for the edu- cation of women are Daughters' college (Chris- tian), at Harrodsburg; Georgetown female seminary (Baptist) ; Lebanon female college ; Logan female college (Methodist Episcopal), at Russellville ; Hocker female college (Chris- tian) ; Lexington Baptist female college, St. Catherine's academy (Roman Catholic), and Christchurch seminary (Episcopal), at Lex- ington. Instruction in theology is afforded by St. Joseph's seminary (Roman Catholic), at Bardstown, Western Baptist theological insti- tute at Georgetown, college of the Bible, Ken- tucky university, and the theological depart- ments of Georgetown and Bethel college ; in medicine, by the medical department of the university of Louisville and by the Louisville medical college. According to the census of 1870, there were 89 newspapers and periodi- cals published in the state, having an aggregate circulation of 197,130, and issuing 18,270,160 copies annually. There were 6 daily, with a circulation of 31,000 ; 4 tri-weekly, circulation 3,500 ; 4 semi- weekly, circulation, 4,100 ; 68 weekly, circulation 137,930; and 7 monthly, with a circulation of 19,700. In 18.73 the pub- lications were 9 daily, 6 of which issued also weekly editions, 1 tri-weekly, 4 semi-weekly, 80 weekly, and 9 monthly. The total number of libraries in 1870 was 5,546, containing 1,909,- 230 volumes ; 4,374, with 1,590, 245 volumes, were private, and 1,172, with 318,985 volumes, were other than private, including two state libraries, with 9,200 volumes; 10 town, city, &c., with 13,436 ; 218 court and law, with 61,- 590; 18 school, college, &c., with 20,675; 717 Sunday school, with 160,377; and 207 church, with 53,707. The principal libraries in 1874 were that of the Kentucky university at Lexing- ton, which had 10,000 volumes ; the Lexing- ton library company's, 18,300; the state libra- ry in Frankfort, 7,000; Danville theological seminary, 7,000 ; public library of Kentucky, at Louisville, 31,250; St. Joseph's college and seminary in Bardstown, 5,000 ; Centre college