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II. Its situation, 378 ; State election, 378 ; 

 census statistics, 378 ; troops sent to the war, 

 378. 



III. Area and division, 334 ; Governor and 

 Legislature, 334 ; resolutions of the House rela- 

 tive to the Governor's inaugural, 334, 335 ; mes- 

 sage of Governor Cannon to the Legislature 

 denouncing an act passed, 335 ; his proclama- 

 tion, 335 ; order of General Schenck previous 

 to the election, 336 ; appeal of the Governor 

 to the people, 336 ; orders of General Tyler 

 relative to the election, 336; instructions of 

 do., 330 ; address to the Democrats of New 

 Castle County, 337 ; result of the election, 337 ; 

 troops furnished on the invasion of Pennsyl- 

 vania, 337. 



IV. Vote at the presidential election, 357 ; 

 parties in the Legislature, 357 ; measures of 

 emancipation urged by the Governor, 357; 

 efforts to enlist negroes, 358 ; immigration, 358. 



V. Area and population, 306 ; financial re- 

 sources, 306 ; national hanking system author- 

 ized, 307; internal improvements, 307; sla- 

 very abolished, 307. 



VI. The choice of officers of government, 

 264 ; total votes, 264 ; resolutions adopted by 

 the Legislature relative to the bill granting 

 suffrage to the negroes in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, 264; State debt, 264; views of the 

 Governor on local affairs, 264 ; do. on the 

 amendment to the Federal Constitution, 264 ; 

 action of the United States District Court in 

 the discharge of prisoners in Fort Delaware, 

 264. 



VII. Development, 264 ; acts of the Legis- 

 lature, 264 ; public whipping, 264 ; education, 

 264; agriculture, 264; suffrage, 264; Equal 

 Eights Convention, 264; resolutions, 264; de- 

 cision in the Court of Sessions in reference to 

 the civil-rights bill, 265 ; political standing of 

 the Legislature, 265. 



VIII. Financial condition, 212; property 

 of the State, 212 ; income, 212 ; appropriations, 

 212 ; politics of the Legislature, 212 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 212 ; resolutions, 212 ; Re- 

 publican Convention, 212; resolutions, 212; 

 elections, 212. 



IX. Legislature, 217; rejection of the fif- 

 teenth amendment, 217; important tax-bills 

 passed, 217 ; resolutions of Woman's Suffrage 

 Convention, 218 ; public schools, 218 ; pillory 

 and whipping-post, 218; railroad improve- 

 ments, 218. 



X. United States census, 216 ; Wilmington, 

 216; agricultural statistics, 216; debt, 216; 

 revenue, 216 ; judicial decision as to constitu- 

 tionality of State tax on railroad-stock, 216 ; 

 railroads, 216; public schools, 217; Normal 

 School, 217; colored schools, 217 ; resolutions 

 of colored citizens, 217; political canvass, 217; 

 white man's party, 217; Republican resolu- 

 tions, 218 ; Democratic Convention, 218 ; res- 

 olutions of Independent Democrats, 218 ; elec- 

 tion returns, 218; election disturbances, 219; 

 Governor's message, 219. 



XI. Meeting of Legislature, 247 ; inaugural 

 address of Governor, 247 ; election of United 

 States Senator, 247.; legislative acts, 247, 248; 

 property of married women, 248 ; schools, 

 248 ; repeal of charter of Normal University, 

 248; resolutions of students, 248; railroads 

 and canals, 248, 249 ; tax on passengers, 249 ; 

 decision of Court of Errors, 249 ; census sta- 

 tistics, 249 ; Wilmington, 249, 250 ; its manu- 

 factures, 250; taxation and debt, 250; ship- 

 building at Wilmington, 250 ; peach-crop, 250. 



XII. Finances, 233 ; public debt, 233 ; state 

 investments, 233 ; receipts into the Treasury, 

 233 ; expenditures, 233 ; railroad improve- 

 ments, 233 ; peach-growing, 233, 234 ; contro- 

 versy with New Jersey concerning the taking of 

 fish from the Delaware River, 234 ; manufactur- 

 ing statistics of Wilmington, 234 ; city tax, 234 ; 

 bonded debt of the city, 234; miscellaneous 

 statistics of the city, 234; Republican Con- 

 vention, 234 ; platform, 234, 235 ; Democratic 

 Convention and resolutions, 235 ; another con- 

 vention and resolutions, 235 ; a second Repub- 

 lican Convention and resolutions, 235 ; con- 

 flict between the State and the national Gov- 

 ernment concerning the election laws, 236 ; 

 views of the Governor, 236; results of the 

 election, 236; local political issues, 236; in- 

 ternal improvements, 236 ; public flogging of 

 criminals, 236 ; statistics of agriculture, 236 ; 

 of manufactures, 236; of churches, 237; of 

 libraries, 237; of newspapers, 237; cotton- 

 manufactures in the State, 230, 231. 



XIII. Session of the Legislature, 250 ; new 

 liquor law, 250 ; amendment to the consti- 

 tution relating to a general incorporation act, 

 251 ; attempt to increase representation, 251 ; 

 changes in the railroad taxes, 251 ; State debt, 

 251 ; settlement of the fishery question, 251 ; 

 industrial interests, 251 ; kaolin, 252 ; canning 

 fruit, 252 ; the whipping-post and pillory, 252. 



