64 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI only 2 states of the group for which data are given. The net bonded debt of Illinois amounted to $147.4 million, and that of Arkansas was $80.6 million. Of the remaining 9 states, Kansas had a net bonded debt of $25.4 million; 5 other states had net bonded debts ranging from $2 million to a little more than $15 million; and 3 states! had no net bonded debt whatever. At the end of the fiscal year 1927 the net bonded debt of Missouri was exceeded bv only 1 CuarT 2: Per Carita Net Bonpep DEBT oF Missouri, 1913, 1918, anp 1923-1928 913 $0.05 [G18 Q.70 1023 7.96 1924 1.10 1928 |4 57 1928 17.96 1927 18.40 1928 17.98 state, Illinois, and at the end of the fiscal year 1923 Mis- souri’s net bonded debt was larger than that of any other state in the group. It is evident, then, that between 1923 and the latter part of the period the net bonded debt of both Illinois and Arkansas increased more rapidly than that of Missouri. The increases in these 2 states, furthermore, were much more abrupt than in the case of Missouri. The per capita figures in Table 18 provide a better basis 1 Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.