emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XV.

SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race or color, or previous condition of servitude.

SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, 1870-1880.

I.-CROPS.

1. INDIAN CORN-In this crop Illinois ranks first; Iowa, second; Missouri, thire; Indiana, fourth; Ohio, fifth, and Kansas, sixth.

2.

1,216,587,763 48,737,140 514,885,780

WHEAT-Illinois and Indiana lead on the wheat crop; Ohio and California come next, and Iowa and Minnesota follow closely.

3. OATS-Illinois takes the lead on this orop; New York follows, and then Iowa Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

4. BARLEY-California, New York, Wisconsin and Iowa are the States which raise . the largest part of the Barley crop.

5. RYE-Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York and Kansas are in their order the principal States engaged in raising this crop.

26.304,421

22 8

70 9

16 17

$276,159,448

22 1

$76 1

$16 79

$76 1

$16 79

6. BUCKWHEAT This is not a large crop, nor is it rapidly extending; about fivesixths of the whole is grown in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Maine and New Jersey.

7. POTATOES-New York takes the lead in the Potato crop, and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio follow, but the crop is a large one in most of the northern States.

3. HAY-New York leads in this great crop, and Iowa, Pennsylvania, 'Illinois and Michigan follow. We give only the statistics from 1876, the early years of

9. COTTON-This product being only reported at the ports whence it is shipped, it is difficult to ascertain the exact product of each State. We give, therefore, only the gross amount of the crops and their values, premising that Cotton is grown as a marketable crop only in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Southern Missouri. A few bales may be grown one or two degrees further north, but not enough to produce any effect upon the market.

10. TOBACCO-All the chewing, and a large proportion of the smoking tobacco and snuff used in this country are produced on our own soil, while about two thirds of the cigars and cigarettes are made here from native tobacco, the other third being imported either in the manufactured or unmanufac tured state.

Lbs. Manuf. On Man.Tob
Tob. & Snuff and Deal's in c

1875 408,000,000 65,280,000 123.615.190 $23,675,276 16.0 6,663,843 6,812,496 120174377 28,547,862

No. of Cig'rs OnCigars&c
& Cigaret's. and Manuf's
1,967,959,662 9,494,147
Lbs.Manuf. On Man.Tob
Tobacco. & Dealers in

1876 399,000,000 45,217,000 119,796,727 28,526,823

No. Cigars OnCgs, Cgts & Cigaret's. and Manufs. 1,908,141,570 11,268,517 Lbs. Manuf. On Man.Tob Tobacco. & Dealers in

1877 490,000,000 38,487,000 127,481,149 29,881,907 8.3 7,188,718 5,730,966 149347670 32,079,047

No. Cigars OnCigars&c & Cigare'ts. & Manufct's 1,958,391,482 11,224,650 Lbs. Manuf. On Man. Tob Tobacco. and Deal's in

Re-Exprt Re-Exp ts 266,001 292,315

1878 892,546,700 22,187,428 119,406,588 28,204,045 5.6 8,603,641 6,439,868 283986557 28,484,482

No. Cigars Cigars &c. & & Cigaret's. Manfactur's 2,082,356,362 11,887,720 Lbs. Manuf. On Man. Tob Tobacco. and Deal's in

Re-Exprt Re-Exp'ts 464,481 313,691

1879 391,278,350 22,727,524 181,433,469 27,409,867 07 5.87,212,746 5,8S8,876 322295361 28,215,240

No. Cigars Cigars, &c., & & Cigaret's. Man' factur's 2,276,534,081 12,725,185 58 Lbs. Manuf. On Man. Tob Tobacco. and Deal's in

Re.Exp'rt Re-Exp'ts 441,886 345,171

1880 473,107,573 88,794,821 146,082,885 23,766,218 04 8.2 10412739 7,402,300 215928053 18,442,278

No. Cigars Cigars,&c., & & Cigaret's. Man'factur's 2,820,159,820 15,108,922 04

Re-Exp'rt Re-Exp'ts 924,169 501,622

* Besides Cigars and other manufactures of Tobacco, to the value of $2,864,975. † Besides 336,000 Cigars. Besides 2,082,000 Cigars and other manufactures of Tobacco, to the value of $3,673,492. Besides a large number of Cigars and other forms of manufactured Tobaceo, valued at $3,298,743.

11. RICE. This crop has passed through great fluctuations within the past thirty years, both in the quantity produced and the districts in which it is grown. Formerly the crop was very large, and was almost wholly produced on the Atlantic coast, in the States of South Carolina and Georgia, and in a small district of lower North Carolina, and ranged from 200 to 215 millions of pounds. Now, the total product in the best years, does not exceed 85,000,000 pounds, of which about one half is grown in Louisiana.

Years

Amount Value

of Crops. of Crop. A

pr lb.

Imports. Value.

Re-
Exports.

Value Total Value Dom'stc Doms Total Value Exports Expts Exports. Expts Pounds. $ Pounds. $ Pounds. $ 1869 73,635,000 5,154,450 7.00 53,065,191 1,325,234 8,886,664 284632 2,232,833 145934 11,101,497 430466 1870 50,244,000 3,517,080 7.00 43,123,939 1,007,612 15,212,833 454316 2,133,014 127655 17,345,847 681971 1871 39,550,000 3,361,750 8.50 64,655,827 1,876,786 10,212,920 280463 1872 42,636,380 3,517,493 8.25 74,642,631 3,317,172 12,651,959 378996 1873 49,548,600 3,765,694 7.60 83,755,225 2,304,696 20,204,774 591417 1874 55,123,290 3,858,630 7.00 73,257,716 2,083,248 25,840,877 763497 1875 83,635,001 5,770,815 6.90 59,414,749 1,547,697 12,352,330 342894 1876 86,000,000 5,160,000 6.00 71,561,852 1,693,547 16,610,614 406553 1877 60,505,950 3,932,886 6.50 60,978,659 1,439,767 14,483,645 369235 1878 47,489,878 1,345,869 9,656,593 258242 1879 75,824,923 2,180,153 7,306,315 207302

445,842 22502 10,658,762 302965 403,835 28768 13,055,794 407764 276,637 19740 20,479,401 611157 558,922 27075 26,399,799 790572 277,337 19831 12,629,667 362725 439,991 30918 17,050.605437471 1,306,982 78112 15,790,627447347 631,105 33953 10,287,698 817195 740,136 35538 8,046,451 242840

12. SUGAR AND MOLASSES.-The cultivation of Cane Sugar in the United States is conducted under such disadvantages that the amount produced has not, since 1862, much if at all exceeded one-eighth of the amount imported. The production of Maple and Sorghum Sugar has been increasing, but has not yet reached an amount of more than one-sixth of the whole domestic production. It has lately been charged by the Government, that owing to frauds in grading imported sugars, the annual income from sugars is from seven to ten millions dollars less than it should be. The following tables give all the facts relative to the production, importation, exportation, and duties on sugars and molasses, from 1870 to 1879.