ILLINOIS. 



239 



General Grant's career, commenced, 432 ; 

 growth of Chicago, 433. 



V. Population, 432 ; assessed valuation of 

 real and personal property, 432 ; meeting of 

 the Legislature, 432 ; financial condition, 432 ; 

 debt, 432 ; inauguration of Governor Oglesby, 

 432 ; election for county officers, 432 ; manu- 

 factures, 432 ; cotton-crop, 432 ; artesian well 

 at Chicago, 432, 433 ; Crosby's Opera-House, 

 433; Chamber of Commerce, 433; Illinois & 

 Michigan Canal to be completed, 433 ; progress 

 of the Lake Tunnel, 433 ; cost of buildings 

 erected in Chicago in 1865, 433 ; valuation of 

 real and personal property in Chicago, 433 ; 

 shipments of flour and grain, 433 ; receipts of 

 cattle and hogs, 433 ; losses by fires, 433 ; elec- 

 tion of local officers, 433 ; Legislature, 433. 



VL Growth of the State, 398 ; debt, 398 ; 

 taxable property, 398 ; manufactures, 398 ; 

 population, 398; schools, 399; charitable in- 

 stitutions, 399 ; amendment of the Federal 

 Constitution, 399 ; Eepublican State Conven- 

 tion, 399 ; Democratic State Convention, 400 ; 

 election of State officers, 400; prosperity of 

 Chicago, 400. 



VII. Growth of the State, 394 ; action of 

 the Legislature, 394; extra sessions of that 

 body, 394; change in prison policy, 394; erec- 

 tion of new Capitol, 395 ; Industrial Universi- 

 ty, 395 ; value of property in the State, 395 ; 

 productive interests, 395 ; educational inter- 

 ests, 396; financial condition, 396; political 

 standing of the Legislature, 396; decision of 

 the Supreme Court touching military arrests, 

 396 ; decision of the courts on the act for erect- 

 ing Capitol, 396 ; coal-deposits, 396 ; Illinois 

 & Michigan Canal. 396. 



VIII. Area, 346; resources, 346; geologi- 

 cal report, 346 ; product of the mines, 346 ; 

 receipts and shipments of stock, 347 ; sales, 

 347 ; assessed property of the State, 347 ; pub- 

 lic debt, 347 ; new plans for internal improve- 

 ment, 347; Illinois & Michigan Canal, 348; 

 River Tunnel, 348 ; new State-House, 348 ; 

 penitentiary, 348 ; Insane Hospital, 348; School 

 for Feeble-minded, 348 ; Deaf and Dumb In- 

 stitution, 348 ; schools, 349 ; university, 349 ; 

 Democratic State Convention, 349; resolutions, 

 349 ; Republican Convention, 350 ; resolutions, 

 350; results of the election, 351; Legislature, 

 351. 



IX. Meeting of the Legislature, 342 ; legis- 

 lation of the session, 342 ; ratification of the 



fifteenth amendment, 342 ; passage af the canal 

 and river improvement bill, 342 ; law for the 

 exclusion of diseased cattle from .the State, 

 342 ; the law held to be unconstitutional by 

 the Circuit Court, 342 ; session of the Legis- 

 lature closed, 343 ; report of the commission- 

 ers, on the new State-House, 343 ; appropria- 

 tions of the Legislature, 343 ; railroad legisla- 

 tion, 343 ; Insane Asylum, 344 ; meeting of 

 the State Board of Charities, 344 ; improved 

 system for the treatment of the insane, 344 ; 

 institution for the education of feeble-minded 

 children, 344 ; Southern Illinois Normal Uni- 

 versity, 344 ; financial condition of the State, 

 344 ; valuation of railroad property, 345 ; ex- 

 hibit of personal property, 345 ; county, town, 

 and city debts, 345 ; increase of taxation, 345 ; 

 report of the Treasurer, showing the condition 

 of the Treasury, 345 ; cultivated land, 346 ; 

 soil, 346 ; school statistics, 346 ; remarks of 

 Peter Cartwright at the Methodist Conference, 

 346; dairies, 346; milk statistics, 347; judi- 

 cial decision that bank capital must be assessed 

 at its par value, 347 ; decision concerning the 

 rights of passengers on railroad-trains, 347; 

 calling of a constitutional convention, 347 ; 

 popular note thereon, 347 ; the members elect- 

 ed, 348 ; constitutional conventions heretofore 

 held, 348; meeting and organization of the 

 convention, 348 ; resolutions adopted, 348 ; 

 earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad, 348; 

 tax paid by same, 348 ; real and personal prop- 

 erty of the State for a series of years, 348 ; 

 State debt, 348 ; questions to come before the 

 convention, 349. 



X. Constitutional Convention, 389; con- 

 stitution as agreed upon, 389 ; bill of rights, 

 389 ; distribution of governmental powers, 

 890 ; elections, 390 ; oath of members of As- 

 sembly, 390; senators, 390; representatives, 

 390 ; apportionment of, 390 ; power of Legis- 

 lature to incur indebtedness and appropriate 

 money limited, 390 ; pay of members, 390 ; 

 special legislation, 390; lotteries, 391; pro- 

 tection of miners, 391 ; terms of office, 391 ; 

 duties of Governor, 391 ; veto-power, 391 ; ju- 

 diciary, 391; attempt to have judges appointed 

 by Governor, 391 ; proposed innovation in 

 powers of juries in criminal cases, 391 ; judges 

 to make suggestions as to defects in laws, 392; 

 right of suffrage, 392 ; woman suffrage, 392 ; 

 action of convention on, 392 ; protest against, 

 392; public schools, 393 ; no money to be ap- 



