Free.....

20%.

do

2 20

20

Quills, prepared or unprepared, but not made up into
complete articles..

Regalia and gems, statuary and specimens of sculp-
ture specially imported in good faith for the use
of any society incorporated or established solely
for educational, philosophical, literary or relig-
ious purposes, or for the encouragement of fine
arts, or for the use or by order of any college,
academy, school, seminary of learning or public
library in the United States
Philosophical or scientific apparatus, utensils, instru-
ments, and preparations; statuary, casts of mar-
ble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of paris; paint-
ings, drawings and etchings, stained or painted
window glass, or stained or painted glass win-
dows, specially imported in good faith for the
use of any society or institution incorporated
or established for religious, philosophical, edu-
cational, scientific or literary purposes, or for
encouragement of the fine arts.
Household effects, books or libraries, or parts of libra-
ries, of persons or families from foreign coun-
tries, if actually used abroad by them not less
than one year; books, professional, implements,
instruments, and tools of trade, occupation or
employment in the actual possession at the time
of persons arriving in the United States, not in-
tended for other persons, and household effects,
not merchandise, of citizens of the United States
dying in foreign countries.

Masks, composed of paper or pulp..
Matting and mats made of cocoa fiber or rattan-
Matting

Free

Free

Free

Free

25%

20%

do

Mats...

Musical instruments

Musical instruments, or parts thereof (except pianoforte actions), and strings for, not otherwise enumerated, cases for musical instruments, pitch pipes, tuning forks, tuning hammers aad metro

nomes

Paintings, in oil or water colors...

Free

20%

Statuary

Peat moss.

Pencils-Wood filled with lead or other material, and pencils of lead..

Slate, covered with wood..

do.

50

35%

35

Number of savings depositors, aggregate savings deposits and average amount due to depositors in savings banks in each state in 1896-97.

*Deposits subject to check amounting to $44.037,529 not included. †Partially estimated. No information.

STATISTICS OF EDUCATION-1895-96.

(By Alexander Summers, Statistician of the U. S. Bureau of Education.) Population, Enrollment, Average Daily Attendance, Number and Sex of Teachers in Common

Schools.

*Including 380,493 secondary students in public high schools. +Approximately.

In 1894-95. (By state census. In 1893-4.

STATISTICS OF EDUCATION, 1895-96.-CONTINUED.

Average Number Days Taught in Common Schools, Salaries of Teachers, Number and Value of Schoolhouses, State and Local Taxation.

STATISTICS OF EDUCATION, 1895-96.-CONTINUed.

Expenditures for Common-School Sites, Buildings and Furniture, for Teachers' Salaries and for Other Purposes.

*Approximately. Includes city of Wilmington only. Report incomplete.

§In 1893-94. In 1891-95.