STATUTORY Pnovisioss. Property acquired by a Wife after marriage remains hers. Women who own assessed property. or W110 have children of school age. may vote in school meet ings. The liquor In provide for high license. The legal rate of interest is seven per cent.. ten being allowed by contract, and the penalty for usury is forfeiture of interest and cost.
The Slate has six Representatives in the Na tional Congress. The capital is Lincoln.
The population of Nebraska by decades was: 1100, 25.541: 1870, 122.993; 1550, 4:12.102: 11!I0. 1,0305,910: 000, 1,000.300. In the decade IS111-90 Texas was the only State west of the :\lississippi whose absolute growth was as great as that of Nebraska, but ill the following deeade the population remained almost station ary, its inerease exceeded by that in every other State in the Union but one. Many of the northeastern eounties ??f the State made large gains in the last deende of the century. but else where Were common. Owing to its arid ity, the western half of the State contains hut. few• people. The foreign-born population in 1900 numbered 177.347, the Germans exceeding any other nationality. In the same year there were 6269 negroes and 3322 taxed Indians. There are I3.9 inhabitants to the square mile. Ne braska is one of the two States which suffered an actual decrease in urban population during the last decade of the past century. In 1900
there were eleven cities which exceeded 4000 in habitants each, and together constituted 20.8 per cent. of the total population. The largest three cities in 1900 were: Omaha, 102,555; Lin coln, 40,169; South Omaha, 26.1(01.
C1IABI'tdBLE AND PENAL 1 NS'l ITCTIONS. The Governor, Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, and the State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction constitute a Board of Charities and Correction. The State institutions are as follows: Asylums for the insane at Lincoln and at Norfolk. Asylum for Incurable Insane at Hastings, Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Grand Island, Soldiers and Sailors' Dome at Milford, Home for Friendless at Lincoln, State Industrial School at Kearney. Girls' Industrial School at Geneva, industrial Home at State Peni tentiary at Lincoln. Institution for Feehle-Minded at Beatrice, Institution for Deaf and Dumb at Omaha, Institution for Blind at Nebraska City. About one-half of the counties have poor farms (1902), the inmates at these aggregating about 800, while half as many other persons receive continuous aid from the counties, and as many more receive partial aid.