MASON, CHARLES K. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



285 



516 ; public schools, 616 ; Maryland Canal 

 Company, 516. 



XV. Public debt, 470 ; finances, 470 ; pub- 

 lic schools, 470; Agricultural College, 470; 

 Normal School, 470 ; Insane Hospital, 470 ; 

 Inebriate Asylum, 470 ; Blind Asylum, 471 ; 

 Temperance Convention and resolutions, 471 ; 

 Democratic Convention, 471 ; nominations and 

 resolutions, 471 ; opposition movement, 472 ; 

 Republican Convention and proceedings, 472 ; 

 reassembles, 472 ; platform, 472 ; results of 

 the election, 473 ; election of Attorney-Gen- 

 eral contested, 473 ; statement of facts, 473 ; 

 decision of the Court of Appeals, 474; case 

 relative to dividends in gold, 474 ; decision on 

 the authority of the State to impose a capita- 

 tion tax, 474 ; decision on the State's right to 

 impose a tax on the gross receipts of a rail- 

 road, 474 ; case of the State, 474 ; decision, 

 475 ; boundary-line with Virginia, 475 ; bio- 

 graphical sketch of the Governor-elect, 475. 



MASON, CHARLES K. XV. Decease of, 579. 



MASON, FRANCIS. XIV. Birth, 517; mis- 

 sionary career, 517 ; death, 517 ; scientific 

 works, 517. 



MASON, JAMES M. XL Birth, career, death, 

 489. 



MASON, JOHN M. I. Senator in Thirty-sixth 

 Congress, 166; the remedy is at home in the 

 State councils, 170 ; response to Senator Sew- 

 ard's remarks, 180, 181 ; remarks on the Presi- 

 dent's message with the resolutions of Vir- 

 ginia, 179 ; on the n'aval appropriation bill, 

 182 ; on the views of Calhoun, 189 ; on the 

 bill to discontinue postal service in seceded 

 States, 219 ; on the Peace Conference propo- 

 sitions, 221 ; seizure on the steamer Trent, 

 693 ; surrendered to the British officers, 695. 



MASON, LOWELL. XII. Birth, death, 498 ; 

 career, 499 ; published works, 499. 



MASON, Rey. SOEVER. XI. Obituary, 583. 



MASON, Judge- THOMPSON, Maryland Secre- 

 tary of State. XIII. Obituary of, 565. 



MASSACHUSETTS. I. Boundaries, 449 ; popu- 

 lation, 449 ; distribution of manufactures, 449 ; 

 railroads, 449 ; taxable property, 449 ; politics, 

 450 ; election, 450 ; John Brown meeting, 450 ; 

 military orders, 451 ; military movements, 451 ; 

 arms bought in Europe, 451 ; troops in the 

 field, 452; action of the State Legislature, 

 452 ; antislavery meeting, 452 ; compromise 

 meeting in Faneuil Hall, 453 ; war loans, 453 ; 

 election, 453 ; receipts and expenditures, 454 ; 



resolutions or instructions of Legislature of, to 

 its commissioners to Peace Conference, 564. 



II. Population, 561 ; increase, 561 ; manu- 

 factures, 561; value of property, 562; State 

 debt, 562 ; protection of seaports, 562 ; resolu- 

 tions of Legislature relative to the action of 

 Maryland Legislature, 562 ; answer of Govern- 

 or Andrew to a call for more troops, 562; 

 rally of volunteers, 562; troops contributed, 

 563 ; political organizations, 563 ; resolutions 

 of the Republican Convention, 563; People's 

 Convention, 563 ; resolutions, 563, 564 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 564 ; resolutions, 564 ; votes 

 of the citizens, 565 ; refusal of the Governor to 

 receive Southern blacks into Massachusetts, 

 565. 



III. Legislature, 624; finances, 624; reso- 

 lutions of the Committee on Federal Relations, 

 624; Democratic Convention, 624; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 624; resolutions, 625; 

 Republican Convention and resolutions, 625 ; 

 election, 626 ; votes, 626 ; men furnished to 

 the army, 626 ; draft in the State, 626 ; Board 

 of Education, 627; State institutions, 627; 

 banks, 627 ; railroads, 627. 



IV. Address of the Governor, 507 ; finan- 

 ces, 507 ; bounty-fund, 507 ; quota of troops, 

 508 ; credits, 508 ; valuation of property, 508 ; 

 savings-banks, 509 ; taxes, 509 ; schools, 509 ; 

 asylums, 509; coast - defence, 509; political 

 canvass, 509. 



V. Legislative action, 530; finances, 530, 

 531; number of men furnished to the army 

 and navy, 531 ; militia, 532 ; banks^ 532 ; 

 public schools, 532 ; Harvard University, 532 ; 

 charitable and correctional institutions, 532; 

 railroad statistics, 532 ; Hoosac Mountain Tun- 

 nel, 532 ; paper-manufacture, 533 ; salmon in 

 the Connecticut and Merrimac, 533 ; surplus 

 female population, 533 ; births, marriages, and 

 deaths, 533, 534 ; liquor-sales, etc., 534 ; con- 

 flict between liquor-dealers and the State, 534 ; 

 resolutions of the Republican Convention, 534 ; 

 A. H. Bullock nominated for Governor, 534 ; 

 resolutions of the Democratic Committee, 535 ; 

 D. N. Couch nominated for Governor, 535; 

 result of the elections, 535. 



VI. Organization of the Legislature, 473 ; 

 views of the Governor, 473 ; proceedings of 

 the Legislature, 473 ; State debt, 473 ; expendi- 

 tures, 473 ; revenue, 473 ; educational returns, 

 474; charitable institutions, 475; industrial 

 products, 475 ; savings-banks, 475 ; cod-fishery, 



