A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . School kor thk Deaf and Dime, .\ustin. 1880, $311,470,736; 1890, $782,111,883. For the five yearsfollowing 1890 the assessed values were as follows: 1891,$856,202,283 ; 1892, $856,528,600 ; 1893, $886,175,395 ; 1894,$865,120,989 ; 1895, $860,910,567. These figures show a constantly increasing wealth until withinthe last three years, except for the decade ending in 1870, whichwas due to the devastating effects of the war and the ra\ages ofReconstruction, coupled with the destruction of the property inslaves which was enumerated
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . School kor thk Deaf and Dime, .\ustin. 1880, $311,470,736; 1890, $782,111,883. For the five yearsfollowing 1890 the assessed values were as follows: 1891,$856,202,283 ; 1892, $856,528,600 ; 1893, $886,175,395 ; 1894,$865,120,989 ; 1895, $860,910,567. These figures show a constantly increasing wealth until withinthe last three years, except for the decade ending in 1870, whichwas due to the devastating effects of the war and the ra\ages ofReconstruction, coupled with the destruction of the property inslaves which was enumerated prior to 1864, GENERAL REVIEW OF PROGRESS. 451. Aside from its administration of educational affairs and its Publicstrictly governmental functions, the State has been most liberal ^in providing and maintaining all those public institutions ofcharity, benevolence, and humanity the existence of which is socharacteristic a feature of Christian civilization. From the foun-dation of the State government specific funds were provided forthe establishment of the principal eleemosynary institutions forthe care of the afiflicted and rdestitute members of so-ciety, and as the increasingpopulation of the State hasrendered these establish-ments necessary to be ex-tended, the liberality of thepeople through their legis-latures has kept pace withthe demands of the occa-sion. The chief establish-ments of this kind are asfollows : The three asylums for the insane, at Austin, San Antonio, and Terrell, with prop-erty and investment valued at $1,082,969 ; the Blind Asylum,which is also a school for the instruction of the blind, at Austin,with property
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