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officers, 435 ; acts of the Legislature, 435 ; 

 school system for the State, 435 ; finances of 

 New Orleans, 436 ; registration law, 436 ; 

 qualifications of voters, 436 ; interpretation of 

 the law, 437 ; notice of election, 437 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 437 ; resolutions, 437 ; dis- 

 turbances in other parishes, 438 ; letter of the 

 Governor to Washington, 438 ; remarks of the 

 press, 438 ; instructions from Washington, 

 438; relations of the military forces to the 

 civil authorities, 439 ; riotous demonstrations, 

 439 ; dispatches to and from Washington, 439 ; 

 outbreaks, 440 ; conflict at St. Bernard's, 440 ; 

 orders of the Secretary of War, 440 ; address 

 of General Rousseau, 440 ; chief of police, 440, 

 441 ; presidential election, 441 ; the crops, 441. 



IX. General aspect, 394 ; exhortation of 

 the Governor in his message to the Legislature, 

 394 ; meeting of the Legislature, 394 ; legisla- 

 tion, 394 ; reorganization of the public-school 

 system, 394 ; city charter for New Orleans, 

 394 ; incorporation of the Ship Island Canal 

 Company, 395 ; passage of the act to protect 

 the health of the city of New Orleans, 395 ; 

 opposition thereto, 395 ; the law declared un- 

 constitutional, 395 ; grounds of the decision, 

 396 ; oppressive revenue bill, 396 ; ratification 

 of the fifteenth amendment, 396 ; resolutions in 

 support of Grant's Administration, 396 ; ad- 

 journment of the Legislature, 397 ; power of 

 the Governor to fill vacancies in office, 897 ; 

 legislative act concerning the mode of filling 

 vacancies, 397 ; controversy concerning muni- 

 cipal officers in Jefferson City, 397; similar 

 controversy in New Orleans, 397 ; bitter war- 

 fare between Governor Warmoth and the 

 Auditor of the State, 397; charges of the 

 Governor against the Auditor, 398 ; commer- 

 cial progress, 398 ; State debt, 398 ; charitable 

 institutions, 398 ; penitentiary, 398 ; schools, 

 398. 



X. General tranquillity, 452 ; acquiescence of 

 the people in the results of reconstruction, 452- 

 meeting of the Legislature, 452 ; vetoes by the 

 Governor, 452 ; extra session of Legislature 

 called, 452 ; purposes stated by Governor, 452 ; 

 passage of the " education bill," 453 ; provisions 

 thereof, 453 ; new charter for New Orleans, 453 ; 

 new election law, 453 ; provisions, 453 ; ob- 

 jections thereto, 454; amended and passed, 

 454; State aid to New Orleans, Mobile & 

 Chattanooga Railroad, 454; legal reforms, 

 454 ; changes concerning writs of injunction 



and mandamus, 454 ; dissatisfaction on ac- 

 count of legislative appropriations, 454 ; meet- 

 ing of citizens at New Orleans, 454 ; Governor 

 Warmoth's response to committee thereof, 

 455 ; hostility between Governor Warmoth 

 and Auditor Wickliffe, 455 ; charges of cor- 

 ruption against the latter, 456 ; his impeach- 

 ment, 456 ; the " slaughter-house " litigation, 

 456 ; decision of the United States Court, 456 ; 

 school-fund, 456 ; controversy concerning the 

 same ? in New Orleans, 456 ; Peabody Educa- 

 tional Fund, 456 ; views of Dr. Sears thereon, 

 457 ; political conventions, 457 ; admission of 

 colored delegates to the Democratic Conven- 

 tion 457 ; election results, 457 ; constitutional 

 amendments, 457 ; finances, 468 ; penitentiary, 

 458 ; rice-crops for ten years, 458 ; culture 

 and varieties of rice, 458 ; production of sugar 

 and molasses, 458 ; crops of sugar -for twenty 

 years, 458; cotton-crop, 458; commerce of 

 New Orleans, 458 ; Federal census, 459. 



XI. Political affairs, 471 ; election of Unit- 

 ed States Senator, 471 ; legislative expenses, 

 471 ; contest between Governor and Auditor, 

 471, 472 ; finances, 472 ; judicial decision on 

 State debt, 472 ; Republican Convention, 472 ; 

 contest of the two, 472, 473 ; death of Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor Dunn, 473 ; meeting of Legis- 

 lature, 473 ; school law, 474 ; school statistics, 

 474; railroads, 474; levees, 474, 475 ; census 

 statistics of 1870, 475. 



XII. Continuation of the contest between 

 Governor Warmoth and George W. Carter, 

 471 ; efforts to unseat Speaker Carter, 471 ; 

 Warmoth men excluded from seats in the 

 Legislature, 471 ; arrest of Governor War- 

 moth and his supporters, 471 ; proclamation 

 calling an extra session, 471 ; resolutions of 

 the House denouncing the arrest of its mem- 

 bers, 472 ; proceedings of the Legislature, 472 ; 

 the Legislature guarded by soldiers and police, 

 472 ; the supporters of Carter assemble as the 

 "legal House of Representatives," 472 ; Gov- 

 ernor Warmoth proclaims the Carter Legis- 

 lature " revolutionary," 472 ; the killing of 

 Walter Wheyland, a Representative, 472 ; 

 Carter, with several thousand men, attempt to 

 take forcible possession of the Mechanics' In- 

 stitute, 472; the Senate approves the expul- 

 sion of Carter, 473 ; proceedings of the two 

 factions investigated by a congressional com- 

 mittee, 473 ; statements by members of the 

 committee, 473 ; bills passed by the Legislature, 



