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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...31 days; term of Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years. Number electoral votes, 3; number voters, 88,298. Idiots, Insane, paupers and criminals excluded from voting/ Colleges at Newark and Wilmington; school age, 6-21. Legal interest rate, 6; usury forfeits the principal. MARYLAND. m One of the thirteen original States; named in honor of Maria. wife of Charles II., King of England; firtt permanent settlement made by English Roman Catholics at St. Mary', 1634. Area, 12,210 square miles; greatest length, east and west, 196 miles; seacon-t, 83 miles, or, including the tidewater region of Chesapeake Bay, 411 miles, and, with shores of inlands, 509 miles. Nnmbercounties, 23. Temperature at Baltimore: winter, 33 to 41; summer, 73 to 79; rainfall, 41 inches. Baltimore, the metropolis; laid out 1730; port of entry and commercial centre; has regularlincs European steamers; pop., 332,313. Annapolis, capital; contains United States Naval Academy; pop., 5,744. Cumberland, depot of western mining region; pop., 10,693. Number farms, 1860, 23,494; 1680,40,517. Average value per acre, cleared land, $24.65; woodland, $35.50. Value principal orchard products, --peaches, pears, plums and apples, --nearly $2,000,000; canned and preserved fruits and vegetables, over $2,000,000; oyster fisheries, nearly $5,000,000. Wheat crop, 1884, 8,200.000 bu.; corn, 15,237,000bn.; oats, 1,980,000 bu.; buckwheat, 1883,117,600 bu.; t.bacco, 31,570,793 lbs. Presidential P. O. Annapolis 82,400 Baltimore 5 000 Bel Air 1,200 Cambridge 1,400 Centrevire 1,300 Chestertown... 1,300 Cumberland... 2.300 Easton 1.700 Klkton 1.500 KllicottCity... 1.300 Emmittsburgh. 1,300 Frederick 2.200 Frost burgh 1,300 Hagerstown... 2.300 Havre de Grace 1,300 Tort Deposit... 1,100 Salisbury 1,400 Towson 1, ...
