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Books of Reference.

Legislative Mutual and Constitution, issued by the Secretary of State. Pierre.

Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Biennial. Pierre.

Annual Review of the Progress of South Dakota. Annual. Department of History Pierre

Department of Historic*! Collections. Vols. I.— IX. Department of History. Pierre. 1918.

Peterson's Historical Atlas of South Dakota. Vermilion.

Robinson'" Brief History of Sonth Dakota. New York, 1905, and revisions lat«r.

Johnson (£.), A Republic of Friends. Pierre, 1912.

fiafrtwry (O. W.l History of Dakota Territory. New York, 1915.

Raruom (F. L.X The Sunshine State. Chicago, 1912.

TENNESSEE.

Constitution and Government. — Tennessee was admitted into the

Union on June 1, 1796. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 33 members elected for two years, and a House of Representatives of 99 members elected also for two years.

No clergyman of any denomination is eligible to either House. Qualified as electors are (with the usual exceptions) all citizens who have resided in the State 12 months and in the county six months next before the election and have paid the poll-tax.

Tennessee is represented in Congress by two Senators and ten Represen- tatives.

Governor.— Alfred A. Taylor, 1921-23 (4,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — J. B. Stevens.

The State is divided into 96 counties. The State Capital is Nashville.

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 42,022 square miles (335

square miles water). Census population on January 1, 1920, 2,337,885.

Population

Years

1900 1910

Population

Total Per sq. mile

Total Per sq. mile

1860

1880

1,109,801 26-6 1,542,359 37

2,020,616 48 5 2,184,789 52-4

In 1910 the population by sex and race was : —

-

White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male . Female .

69,622 841,810

233,710 239, 37S

159 110

1,103,491 1,081,298

Total

1,711,482

473,088

216

2,184,789

The foreign-born numbered (in 1910) 18,607, of whom 3,903 were German. 2.296 Irish, and 2.045 English. Of the total population in 1910, 20-2 per cent, was urban. The eities, with laudation in 1920, are Memphis, 162,351; Nashville (capital), 118,342; Chattanooga, 57,895; Knoxville, 77,818 ; Jackson, 18,860 ; Johnson City, 12,442,