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MASSACHUSETTS. 



475; militia, 475; constabulary, proceedings 

 of, 476 ; liquor law, 476 ; registration report, 

 476 ; mortality, 476 ; population, 476 ; dimin- 

 ishing population, 477 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 477 ; 

 Republican Convention, 478 ; proceedings, 

 478 ; National Union Convention, 478 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 478 ; election, 479. 



VII. Meeting and proceedings of Legisla- 

 ture, 480 ; the prohibitory liquor law, 480 ; 

 petitions and remonstrances, 480 ; seizures by 

 the constabulary force, 481 ; influence of the 

 liquor question on general political issues, 481 ; 

 State Temperance Convention and resolutions, 

 481 ; meeting of the Eepublican Convention, 

 482 ; nomination of candidates, 482 ; resolu- 

 tions, 482 ; Democratic Convention and resolu- 

 tions, 482 ; result of the November election, 

 483 ; finances, 483 ; public schools, 483 ; Agri- 

 cultural College, 483 ; paupers, 484 ; Deaf and 

 Dumb Asylum, 484 ; State-prison, 484 ; Hoo- 

 sac Tunnel, 484 ; improvement of Boston har- 

 bor, 484 ; fisheries, 484. 



VIII. A long legislative session, 456 ; sale- 

 of-liquor regulation, 456; Governor's views, 

 456; act of the Legislature, 456; message, 

 456 ; censure of the Governor, 456 ; proceed- 

 ings of the committee, 457; Temperance Con- 

 vention, 457; effect of the prohibitory law, 

 457; State constabulary, 457; attempt at re- 

 peal, 457; failure, 457; suffrage for women, 

 457 ; resolutions of Federal relations, 458 ; ap- 

 propriations, 458 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 458 ; rail- 

 roads, 458 ; institutions of reform and charity, 

 458 ; ^schools, 459 ; finances, 459 ; Democratic 

 Convention, 459; resolutions, 459; resolu- 

 tions of the Kepublican Convention, 460 ; elec- 

 tions, 460. 



IX. Meeting of the Legislature, 410 ; sum- 

 mary of the legislation, 410 ; three important 

 measures, 410 ; new school law, 410 ; appro- 

 priations for educational purposes, 410; the 

 prohibitory law, 411 ; financial condition, 411 ; 

 State debt, 411; Treasurer's balance-sheet, 

 411 ; revenue receipts, 411 ; taxable property, 

 412 ; State Keform School, 412 ; School for 

 Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youths, 412 ; State 

 Almshouses, 412; State Lunatic Hospitals, 

 412 ; condition of the State-prison, 413 ; State 

 Industrial School for Girls, 413; State Nauti- 

 cal School, 413 ; operations of the State con- 

 stabulary, 413 ; report of the State agent at 

 Washington, 413 ; births, marriages, and deaths, 

 413; report of the commissioners on cattle- 



diseases, 414 ; valuation of property, 414 ; re- 

 port of the State Liquor Commission, 414; 

 work on the Hoosac Tunnel, 414 ; enfranchise- 

 ment of Indians, 414 ; landing of the French 

 cable, 415 ; meeting of the State Temperance 

 Convention, 415; resolutions, 415; meeting 

 of the Democratic Convention, 415 ; nomina- 

 tions, 415 ; resolutions, 415 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 415; resolutions, 416; organizations 

 of the Labor Reform party, 416 ; principles of 

 the party, 416; election, 417; Legislature for 

 1870, 417 ; the Peace Jubilee, 417 ; New Eng- 

 land coast visited by a hurricane, 417. 



X. Meeting of the Legislature, 470 ; bien- 

 nial sessions recommended by Governor, 470 ; 

 prohibitory law, 470; act requiring assessors 

 of cities and towns to make return of indebt- 

 edness thereof, 470 ; eight-hour and ten-hour 

 laws, 470 ; Knights of St. Crispin, 470 ; Bos- 

 ton, Hartford & Erie Railroad, 471 ; report 

 of committee of council on management of, 

 471 ; financial condition of, 471 ; further State 

 aid sought, 471 ; passage of act granting it, 

 471 ; veto of Governor, 471 ; proceedings in 

 Supreme Court against the company, 472 ; 

 bankruptcy proceedings in United States courts, 

 472 ; finances, 472 ; debt, 472 ; deposits in sav-* 

 ings-banks, 472 ; recommendations of Gov- 

 ernor as to, 472 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 472 ; rail- 

 road statistics, 472; report of railroad com- 

 missioners, 473 ; recommendations of, 473 ; 

 purchase of railroads by State, 473 ; State con- 

 stabulary, 473; politics, 473; resolutions of 

 Prohibitory party, 473 ; of Labor Reform party, 

 474; Republican Convention and nominees, 

 474 ; resolutions, 474 ; resolutions and nomina- 

 tions of Democratic Convention, 475 ; Women 

 Suffrage Convention, 476; resolutions, 476; 

 presentation of memorial to Republican Con- 

 vention, 476 ; action thereon, 476 ; action of 

 Democratic Convention on the same, 477 ; 

 election results, 477; decrease in pauperism, 

 477; almshouse at Tewksbury, 477 ; at Bridge- 

 water, 477 ; at Monson, 477 ; lunatic hospital 

 at Northampton, 477 ; at Taunton, 478 ; causes 

 of insanity, 478 ; lunatic asylum at Worcester, 

 478; State-prison, 478; report of warden, 

 478; State Reform School at Westborough, 

 478 ; Industrial School for Girls, 479 ; School 

 for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youths, 479 ; ed- 

 ucation of idiots, 479 ; Inebriate Asylum, 479 ; 

 public schools, 479 ; Federal census, 479 ; pop- 

 ulation of Boston, 479. 



