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23G INDIANA. were 125 foreign insurance companies doing business in the state; their gross receipts for the sis months ending July 1, 1873, amount- ed to $1,169,413; losses paid, $608,950; tax paid, $17,498. There were 92 national banks, with an aggregate paid-in capital of $17,611,- 800, and an outstanding circulation of $14,536,- 015. The bank circulation of the state was 14,706,415, being $8 75 per capita and 1-2 per cent, of the wealth of the state ; ratio of circulation to capital, 81'9. The total number of manufacturing establishments in 1870 was 11,847, using 2,881 steam engines of 76,851 horse power and 1,090 water wheels of 23,518 horse power, and employing 58,852 hands, of whom 54,412 were males above 16 years of age, 2,272 females above 15, and 2,168 youths. The capital invested amounted to $52,052,' 425; wages paid during the year, $18,366,780; value of materials consumed, $63,135,492; of products, $108,617,278. The chief industries are exhibited in the following table : INDUSTRIES. No. of eiUbliih- meatf. Stoun ngtnet, hont) power. Water wheel!, hone power. HAIl.lt employed. Capital. Waget. Material.. Products. 124 860 165 1.268 $1,622.769 $4-4.526 $951,714 $2.128,794 988 2,7U2 842,497 651,750 1,094,977 2,699,114 995 216 2,893 541,720 75S,847 1,501,329 8,448.959 710 880 285

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2,196,435 1,084,146 1,276.233 3.616.068 10 876 1.408 625.833 834,124 1.639,840 2.577,726 229 1,581 769,809 498,880 1.2s;l.7s2 2,261,874 857 253 1,868 611,087 584,241 950,748 1,921.878 Flouring and grist-mill products.. 962 819 16,676 1,500 18,667 512 8,214 2,780 8,518,627 2,346,873 696,717 1,110,660 20,602,231 1,267,081 25,371,322 8,468,270 9 8250 989 l,5sS.OHO 529,209 1,984,668 2.845,005 4 1,725 189 425,000 159,400 825,435 1.191,884 96 966 253 949 1,281,532 470,738 1,619,851 2,592,908 197 585 5 514 875,740 142.463 905,847 1,810,242 156 147 819 803,810 84,981 909,773 1,151,807 Liquors distilled 86 703 80 280 Iw-.sW 126,150 1,35S,196 2.088,420 " malt 99 858 85 443 1,117,400 175,730 627,576 1,315.116 85 1,788 123 688 796.677 242.579 795,051 1.374,104 1,861 84,696 5803 9,446 5,975,746 1,901,612 5,563,985 12.824,755 62 761 127 1,148 1,047,876 628,774 652,089 1.41)3,694 '* st'm engines and boilers. 88 11 682 179 1,006 452 1.352,716 1,598,000 678,053 92,862 1,869.104 2,262.787 2,387,880 2,780,021 436 1,883 625.6SO 821.212 806.903 1,654.341 59 1,212 165 640 668,650 291,856 536.004 1,089.404 Tin. copper, and eheet-iron ware. . Woollen troods . . . 822 146 2.7is I'.iss 996 2.895 751,005 8.770,513 275,017 717,176 620.560 2.595,604 1,293,206 4,212,787 The constitution of Indiana is dated Feb. 10, 1851, and superseded that of June 29, 1816. Every male citizen 21 years of age, and who has resided in the state six months, possesses the right of voting. The general assembly con- sists of a senate of 50 members elected for four years, one half every second year, and a house of representatives of 100 members elected for two years. The legislative sessions are biennial, beginning on the Thursday after the first Mon- day of January in odd years. Members of the legislature receive $8 a day during the ses- sion. The governor and lieutenant governor are elected for four years ; the former has a salary of $8,000 a year. The other chief state officers are the secretary of state, salary $2,000; auditor, $2,500; treasurer, $3,000; attorney general, $3,000; and superintendent of public instruction, $2,000. These officials are elected for a term of two years. A ma- jority vote of each house is sufficient to pass a bill over the veto of the executive. The state election is held on the second Tuesday of October in even years. The judicial power is vested in a supreme, a circuit, and a superior court. The supreme court consists of five judges, who are elected by the people for a term of six years, and receive an annual salary of $4,000 each. The state Is divided into five supreme judicial districts and 38 circuit dis- tricts. Each of the 38 circuit judges receives an annual salary of $2,500 ; they are elected by the people for a term of six years. A superior court of three judges elected for four years may be established in any county containing a city of 40,000 inhabitants; the only one yet established is in Marion co., of which Indian- apolis is the chief city. Special criminal cir- cuit courts are provided for seven counties of the state : Allen, Floyd, Clark, Marion, Tippe- canoe, Vanderburgh, and Vigo. The officers elected by the people in each county are, a clerk of circuit court, auditor, recorder, treasurer, sheriff, coroner, and surveyor the first three for four years, and the others for two years. Justices of the peace are elected in each town- ship for four years. Indiana is represented in congress by two senators and 13 representatives, and has therefore 15 votes in the electoral col- lege. The system of granting divorces in Indi- ana, which had attracted wide attention on ac- count of its elasticity, was amended in 1873 and made somewhat more stringent. The causes of divorce under the new law are : 1, adultery, except in certain specified cases ; 2, impotency existing at the time of the marriage ; 3, aban- donment for two years ; 4, cruel and inhuman treatment of either party by the other ; 5, ha- bitual drunkenness of either party, or the fail- ure of the husband to make reasonable provi- sion for the family ; 6, the failure of the hus- band to make reasonable provision for his fam-