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soldiers' votes, 493 ; charitable institutions, 

 493 ; political canvass, 494 ; State election, 494 ; 

 raid on the Calais Bank, 495 ; admission of de- 

 fendant as a witness in criminal cases, 495; 

 Emigrant Association, 495. 



V. Measures recommended to the Legis- 

 lature by Governor Cony, 522 ; debt and 

 finances, 522 ; troops furnished, 522, 523 ; 

 resolutions of the Republican and Democratic 

 Conventions, 523 ; nominations for Governor, 

 523; result of the September election, 524; 

 election of Senator, 524. 



VI. Meeting of the Legislature, 465 ; views 

 of the Governor, 465 ; finances, 466 ; debt, 

 466 ; schools, 466 ; military organizations, 466 ; 

 penitentiary, 466 ; lumber, 466 ; railroads, 466 ; 

 burning of Portland, 467; Republican Con- 

 vention, 46V ; proceedings, 467 ; Democratic 

 Convention, 467 ; elections, 468. 



VII. Ratification of the constitutional amend- 

 ment, 471 ; resolutions of the Democratic Con- 

 vention, 471 ; do. of the Republican Conven- 

 tion, 472 ; result of the State election, 472 ; 

 finances, 472 ; war claims, 472 ; banks, 472 ; 

 military departments, 472 ; pensions, 473 ; 

 education, 473 ; Agricultural College, 473 ; In- 

 sane Hospital, 473 ; State-prison, 473 ; amounts 

 paid for war purposes, 473 ; prohibitory liquor 

 law, 473 ; ship-building, 474 ; political status 

 of Legislature, 474 ; Governor's views on 

 present condition of the farming interest, 474. 



VIII. Population, 447; real and personal 

 estate, 447; manufactures, 447 ; railroads, 447 ; 

 State finances, 447 ; schools and scholars, 447; 

 State Reform School, 447 ; Maine liquor law, 

 447; the death -penalty, 448; views of the 

 Governor, 448 ; Democratic Convention, 448 ; 

 nominations, 448 ; resolutions, 448 ; conven- 

 tion of Conservative soldiers, 449 ; Republican 

 Convention, 449; nominations, 449; resolu- 

 tions, 449 ; Soldiers and Sailors' Convention, 

 449 ; election, 449. 



IX. Meeting of the Legislature, 401 ; meas- 

 ures adopted, 401 ; ratification of the fifteenth 

 amendment, 401 ; election of United States 

 Senator, 401 ; spirited contest over the tem- 

 perance question, 401 ; assembling of the State 

 Temperance Convention, 401 ; the resolutions, 

 401 ; meeting of the Grand Lodge of Good 

 Templars, 402; intemperance throughout the 

 State, 402; formation of a third party dis- 

 cussed, 402 ; public opinion on the temperance 

 question, 402 ; meeting of the Republican State 



Convention, 402 ; Joshua L. Chamberlain nomi- 

 nated for Governor, 402 ; the resolutions, 402 ; 

 call for a State Temperance Convention, 403 ; 

 meeting of the convention, 403; nomination 

 and resolutions, 403 ; Democratic Convention, 

 403 ; resolutions, 404 ; results of the election, 

 404 ; improvement in the school system, 404 ; 

 school statistics, 404; sanitary and reforma- 

 tory institutions, 404 ; statistics of the insane, 

 404 ; increase of crime, 404 ; the State-prison, 

 404 ; finances, 405 ; public debt, 405 ; savings- 

 banks, 405; views of Governor Chamberlain 

 on the enforcement of the liquor laws, 405. 



X. Meeting of the Legislature, 462 ; legis- 

 lation, 463 ; Federal census, 463 ; Republican 

 Convention, 463 ; resolutions, 463 ; Democrat- 

 ic Convention and resolutions, 463 ; election 

 results, 463 ; classification of Legislature, 464 ; 

 common schools, 464 ; teachers' institutes, 

 464; Reform School, 464; Insane Hospital, 

 464; finances, 464; debt, 464; sales of liquors, 

 464; State banks, 464; savings-banks, 464; 

 loans, 465; Swedish colony, 465; litigation 

 concerning Maine Central Railroad, 465. 



XI. Session of Legislature, 479 ; measures, 

 479, 480; election of United States Senator, 

 480 ; legislative apportionment, 480 ; finances, 

 480 ; banks and insurance companies, 480 ; 

 schools, 480, 481 ; State-prison, 481 ; railroads, 

 481 ; census statistics of 1870, 482 ; Democrat- 

 ic nominees and platform, 482; Republican 

 nominees, 482 ; platform, 483 ; election returns, 

 483 ; Swedish colony, 483. 



XII. Session of the Legislature, 491 ; acts 

 passed, 491 ; political canvass, 492 ; Republi- 

 can Convention, nominations, and resolutions, 

 492 ; Democratic Convention and resolutions, 

 492 ; convention of soldiers and sailors, 492 ; 

 results of the election, 493; finances, 493; 

 condition of railroads, 493 ; statistics of insur- 

 ance, 493 ; savings-banks, 493 ; Insane Asylum 

 and statistics, 493, 494 ; Deaf and Dumb, 494 ; 

 State-prison, 494 ; College of Agriculture and 

 the Mechanic Arts, 494 ; immigration of 

 Swedes, 494; statistics of occupations, 494; 

 of agriculture, 494 ; of manufactures, 494 ; of 

 newspapers, 494 ; of libraries, 494 ; of church- 

 es, 494 ; of pauperism and crime, 495. 



XIII. Acts of the Legislature, 457 ; Board 

 of Immigration, 457 ; law relating to schools, 

 458; Temperance Convention, 458; resolu- 

 tions, 458; working of the prohibitory law, 

 459; Democratic Convention, 459; nomina- 



