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Table XL shows for the State and counties the total number, the number of native and foreign born males of voting age, and the per cent of the native and foreign born to the total number. In considering the "Citizenship" of the male population twenty-one years of age and over, we find the 747,245 potential voters of the State constitute 485,279 native voters, 215,256 naturalized voters and 46,710 who have taken no steps towards naturalization and hence, compose the alien element of our population. Of the total foreign born males of voting age 215,256, or 82.2 per cent, are naturalized and 46,710, or 17.8 per cent, are alien.

The voting strength of the cities of Michigan constitutes an aggregate of 294,723 males, or 39.4 per cent of the entire potential vote of the State, on the average, 3.8 persons of the total city population to each potential voter. The total native vote in the cities is 172,511, or 58.5 per cent, of the entire male population of voting age, while 122,212, or 41.5 per cent, comprises the voting foreign element. Table XLÍ shows for the incorporated cities, the total number, the number of native and foreign born males of voting age, and the per cent of native and foreign born to the total number. In the classification of "Citizenship" in the cities of the State we find the 294,723 eligible voters are made up of 172,511 native voters, 98,967 naturalized voters and 23,245 aliens. The total foreign element of voting age in the cities is composed of 98,967, or 80.9 per cent, naturalized voters and 23,245, or 19.1 per cent alien. This shows that 49.7 per cent of the total number in the State who have not taken out naturalization papers are located in the cities.

Tables XXXVI, XXXVII and XXXVIII inclusive (pages 548 to 610) of general tables present in detail the male population of voting age, by counties, incorporated cities, and major and minor divisions of the State.

TABLE XLI.-Total number, the number of native and foreign born males of voting age, and per cent of total number, 1894, 1904, incorporated cities.

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TABLE (XLI.-CONCLUDED.-Total number, the number of native and foreign born males of voting age, and per cent of total number, 1894, 1904, incorporated cities.

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MALES OF MILITIA AGE.

The natural militia ages are from 18 to 45 years, the number of the male population returned in these ages in the State is presented in detail in Tables XXXVI, XXXVII and XXXVIII of general tables. These tables give for the entire area of enumeration in 1904 a total of 546,730 males of militia age, or 42.1 per cent, of the total male population.

TABLE XLII.—Males of militia age, number and per cent of increase, 1894, 1904.

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A comparison with similar percentages for 1894 shows an increase in the militia age of the State of 61,793, or 12.8 per cent. The general nativity of the males constituting the militia age in 1904 consists of 389,444, or 71.2 per cent, native element, and 157,286, or 28.8 per cent, foreign born element. While the foreign born of militia age constitutes a smaller proportion of the whole number of such persons, there is a relative increase in the proportion of native born males.

The following summary gives the general distribution of the males of militia age in the State:

TABLE XLIII.-Number and per cent of the militia ages in the State, classified as to general nativity.

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From the preceding table it will be seen that, while the cities of the State contain less than one-half of the total militia ages, they comprise over 50 per cent of the entire foreign element in the State constituting this age.

PERSONS OF SCHOOL AGE.

By a provision of the "Compiled Laws" of the State, regulating the age limit, the "persons of school age" in Michigan comprise all persons from 5 to 19 years of age, inclusive. The number of persons as thus defined, in the State, counties, and incorporated cities in 1904 is presented in detail by sex and general nativity, in Tables XXXIX, XL and XLI of general tables. From these tabulations it appears there are 776,684 persons of school age in 1904, this compared with 744,817* persons in 1900; the number reported 5 to 19 years inclusive, in the last U. S. Census, represents an increase of 31,867, or 4.2 per cent, in the school age of the State in the past four years.

TABLE XLIV.—Number and per cent of persons in the State of primary school age, classified by general nativity, 1904.

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Of the 776,684 persons reported of primary school age June 1, 1904, 393,057 are males and 383,627 are females. The native born element, consisting of 366,805 males and 358,394 females, an aggregate of 725,199, or 93.4 per cent, of the total primary school age, shows an increase over the native of 1900 of 34,873, or 5.1 per cent. While in the foreign born population of school age, numbering 26,252 males, and 25,233 females, there is found a decrease of 3,006, or 5.5 per cent. This being a very material falling off in the proportion of foreign born persons of school age, a condition similar to that found among the foreign element as a whole.

The number reported by the U. S. Census of 1900, viz.: 726,547 native and 63,728 foreign born, includes persons twenty years of age; deducting from these figures the number of persons found in this age period as shown by the age schedule, 36,221 native, and 9,237 foreign born, we have comparative figures

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