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Begun
Institutions
Professors ] Students
1867 1794 1866 1875 1851 1842 1882 1868
Univ. of Chattanooga (M.E.) Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville (State) . Fisk Univ. at Nashville (Cong.) . Vanderbilt Univ. at Nashville (M.E.So.) . Carson and Newman Coll., Jefferson (Bapt.) Cumberland Univ. (Presb.) .... Christian Bros. Coll., Memphis (R.C.) Univ. of the South, Sewanee(P.E.) .
55 026
108 867 22 360
120: 98S 13 i 4(J4 19 I 271 25 314 44 470
There are also 7 colleges for women, 8 commercial schools, a manual training school within the State, and 2 colleges for coloured students.
Charity. — Within the State there are (exclusive of almshouses and establishments for imbeciles, &c.) 49 benevolent institutions, comprising 13 hospitals, one dispensary, 18 orphanages, 14 homes for adults and children, an institution for the deaf, and another for the blind. Of these institutions 36 have been provided by private or ecclesiastical charity. County Com- missioners of the poor have supervision of the county poor asylum and farm, admission to which must be preceded by 12 months' residence in the county. The county court may let out the support of the poor with use of the asylum for three years, or contract for the support of the poor for a year, or make an annual allowance to the indigent.
Finance, Defence. — For the fiscal period ending December 20, 1912, the revenue and expenditure were: —
Dollars Balance Dec. 20, ] 910 . . . 317,269
Receipts, 1910-12 .... 8,735,068
Total . Disbursements, 1910-12
Balance, Dec. 20, 1912
9,052,337
8,267,217
785,120
The bonded debt (including old bonds unfunded) on December 20, 1912, amounted to 15,218,000 dollars. The assessed value of property (1909) was including real and personal property, 559,000,000 dollars. The true value of all property within the State in 1904 was estimated at: —
Real property . Personal property
Total .
Dollars 557,504,977 546,719,002
1,104,323,979
The militia, called the National Guard of Tennessee, with headquarters at Nashville, consists of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, of a total strength of 122 officers and 1,431 men in 1909.
Production and Industry.— in 1910 there were 246,012 farms in the State with an acreage of 20,041,657 of which 10,890,484 acres was improved land. The most important crop is maize,* amounting in 1912 to 88,298,000 bushels. The wheat yield was 7,077,000 bushels. Oats, hay, potatoes and sweet potatoes, pease, sorghum, and other products are grown, the physical
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