CONFISCATION ACT. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



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vocation at Canterbury concerning, 22 ; debate 

 in the Synod of Ireland on, 26. 



CONFISCATION ACT. I. Before Congress, 

 247-250. 



CONFISCATION. III. Discussion on the pow- 

 er of Congress, 219; acts of Congress, 219; 

 instructions of the Attorney-General relative 

 to proceedings, 219; legal status of the inhab- 

 itants of the Confederate States, 220 ; opinion 

 of Judge Wylie, 220 ; case of Leroy M. Wiley, 

 220; opinion of Judge Betts, 220; comment 

 on this opinion, 220 ; duration of the forfeit- 

 ure, 221 ; opinion of Judge Underwood, 221 ; 

 other cases, 222 ; is real estate covered by the 

 act of 1861 ? 222 ; opinion of Judge Trigg, 222 ; 

 the constitutionality of the acts of Congress, 

 223; opinion of Judge Trigg, 223; a case in 

 New Orleans, 223 ; argument of counsel in be- 

 half of the United States, 223 ; do. in behalf of 

 the claimants, 223; argument of the District 

 Attorney, 224 ; opinion in Kentucky, 570. 



IV. Letter of the Attorney-General to the 

 District Attorneys, 203 ; conflicting decisions, 

 204 ; decision of the District Court of Indiana, 

 204 ; action in reference to the declaration of 

 forfeiture, 204 ; debate on, 275. 



V. Steps taken in Richmond, 202 ; results 

 of sales of property in New Orleans, 202 ; case 

 of Leroy M. Wiley, 202 ; proceedings suspend- 

 ed in reorganized States, 203. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS, TRINITARIAN. II. 

 Numbers, 255 ; location, 255 ; enterprise, 255 ; 

 numbers in England, 256 ; do. in British colo- 

 nies, 256 ; missionaries, 256 ; similar churches 

 in France, Italy, Switzerland, 256. 



III. Statistics, 225 ; case of Charles Beech- 

 er, 225 ; Canada Union, 225 ; English Congre- 

 gational Union, 225 ; statistics, 225. 



IV. Numbers, 204; national organization, 

 204; meeting called, 205; the answer to it, 

 205 ; a council to convene, 205 ; subjects for 

 its deliberations, 205 ; churches in Europe, 205 ; 

 clergy, 205 ; independent churches in France, 

 205. 



V. National Council, 203 ; prominent del- 

 egates, 203 ; States represented, 203 ; address 

 to President Johnson adopted, 203 ; reply of 

 the President, 203 ; resolutions on the state of 

 the country reported, 203 ; excursion to " Fore- 

 fathers' Rock," 203 ; new declaration of faith, 

 203 ; resolutions on polity, 204 ; report on rais- 

 ing money for evangelization, 204 ; Congrega- 

 tional house in Boston, 204 ; report on " The 



Fearful Spread of Papacy," 204 ; general collec- 

 tion on December 17th, 204; Congregational- 

 ism in Missouri, 204; in Maryland, 204; in 

 Louisiana, 204 ; statistics of Congregationalism 

 in Europe and in the British colonies, 204; 

 churches in the London postal district, 204; 

 Memorial Hall fund, 204. 



VI. Number of churches, 122 ; location, 

 122 ; pastors in British America, 123 ; total 

 membership of the churches, 123 ; benevolent 

 contributions, 123; Southern missions, 123; 

 Congregationalism in England, 123. 



VII. Statistics, 129 ; organization of Cleri- 

 cal Union, 129 ; church education, 129; finances 

 of American Congregational Union, 130 ; ac- 

 tion against secret societies, 130 ; foreign mis- 

 sions, 130; Congregationalism in Great Brit- 

 ain, 130; London Missionary Society, 130; 

 summary of statistics, 130. 



VIII. Numbers in America, 122; further 

 statistics, 122 ; do. in the United States and 

 British colonies, 122 ; Congregationalism in 

 England, 122 ; do. in British possessions, 123 ; 

 do. on the Continent of Europe, 123. 



IX. Object of the American Congregational 

 Union, 118; finances, 118; purpose of the 

 American Congregational Association, 118. 



X. Convention in New York, 115 ; Pil- 

 grim Memorial Convention at Chicago, 115 ; 

 American Board of Foreign Missions, 115 ; 

 Hawaiian churches, 115 ; missionary funds 

 contributed by native Christians, 115 ; statis- 

 tics of missions, 116; American Home Mis- 

 sionary Society, 116 ; Congregationalism in 

 Great Britain, 116 ; France, 116; Switzerland, 

 116 ; membership, 116. 



XI. National Council, 128; permanent or- 

 ganization, 128 ; constitution, 128, 129 ; decla- 

 ration on unity of the Church, 129 ; acts of 

 the council, 129 ; by-laws, 129 ; membership 

 of council, 130 ; mission- work in Catholic 

 countries, 130 ; division of missions with Pres- 

 byterian Board, 130 ; mission statistics, 130 ; 

 American Missionary Association, 130 ; work 

 among colored people at the South, 130 ; 

 churches, ministers, and members in 1871, 131 ; 

 statistics in Great Britain, 131 ; statistics in 

 France, 131. 



XII. Plan agreed upon by which the 

 churches in the West may participate more 

 directly in the work of the Society, 116 ; col- 

 lections for the American Home Missionary 

 Society, 116 ; missionary work, 116 ; the Worn- 



