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MISSISSIPPI. 



recommendation of the Governor respecting, 

 473 ; Legislature passes an act calling a State 

 Convention, 473 ; sentiment of the people, 473; 

 election of members of the convention, 474; 

 it assembles, 474 ; passes an ordinance of seces- 

 sion, 474 ; proceedings of the Governor, 474 ; 

 resolution against reconstruction, 474; taxes, 

 475; action on the Confederate Constitution, 

 475 ; debate on submitting it to a vote of the 

 people, 475 ; vote on the ordinance of seces- 

 sion, 475 ; military enthusiasm, 475 ; military 

 resources, 476 ; tax recommended, 476 ; do. 

 stay law, 476 ; further action of the Legisla- 

 ture, 476 ; plan to secure volunteers, 476 ; mili- 

 tary operations on the Southern extremity of 

 the State, 477. 



II. Census statistics, 588; internal affairs 

 of the State, 588 ; call of the ^Governor for 

 troops, 589 ; scarcity of arms, 589 ; military 

 operations in the State, 589 ; crops, 589. 



III. Desolation in, 651 ; cavalry raid, 651 ; 

 other expeditions, 651. 



IV. Affairs in the northern part of the 

 State, 549 ; efforts to employ freedmen, 549 ; 

 corn-crop, 550 ; refugees, 550 ; their condition, 

 550; military expeditions, 550; arrest of the 

 Catholic bishop, 550. 



V. Movements looking to the restoration of 

 the State, 578; extra session of the Legislature, 

 578; proclamation of Governor Clarke, 578; 

 action of the Legislature, 579 ; appointment of 

 Provisional Governor Sharkey, 579; procla- 

 mation of Governor Sharkey, 579-581'; State 

 Convention, 581 ; amendment to the State con- 

 stitution in relation to freedmen, 581 ; vari- 

 ous ordinances, 581 ; dispatch of President 

 Johnson to Governor Sharkey, 581 ; peti- 

 tion for the pardon of Jefferson Davis and 

 Governor Clarke, 581; conflict between the 

 civil authorities and General Osterhaus, 581 ; 

 instructions of General Slocum to General 

 Osterhaus, 582 ; militia proclamation of Gen- 

 eral Sharkey, 582 ; General Slocum's order in- 

 terfering with the organization of the State 

 militia, 582, 483 ; dispatch of President John- 

 son to General Carl Schurz, 583 ; order of Gen- 

 eral Slocum revoking his order in relation to 

 the militia, 584; condition of the freedmen, 

 584; proclamation of Governor Sharkey w-- 

 dering the admission of negro testimony, 584 ; 

 result of the December elections, 584; meet- 

 ing of the Legislature, 584 ; message of Gov- 

 ernor Humphreys, 585 ; statements of the State 



Auditor and Treasurer, 685 ; correspondence 

 between Governor Humphreys and the Presi- 

 dent in relation to the removal of troops, etc., 

 585 ; bill passed conferring civil rights on freed- 

 men, 586 ; exemption and stay laws passed over 

 the Governor's veto, 586 ; qualified adoption 

 of the United States constitutional amend- 

 ment, 586. 



VI. Finances, 520; effect of cotton-tax, 

 520; extra session of the Legislature called, 

 520 ; views of the Governor, 520 ; correspond- 

 ence with the President, 521 ; number of disa- 

 bled soldiers, 521 ; State University, 521 ; pub- 

 lic distress, 521 ; population in 1866, 521, 522 ; 

 action of the Legislature, 522 ; case of Jeffer- 

 son Davis, 522 ; constitutional amendment re- 

 jected, 523 ; manufactures, 523 ; opinion of the 

 Court of Appeals on the effect of secession, 

 523. 



VII. Legislative action on constitutional 

 amendment, 514 ; becomes part of Fourth Mili- 

 tary District, 514; steps taken to test the va- 

 lidity of the reconstruction act, 514; substance 

 of the petition for that purpose, 514 ; procla- 

 mation of the Governor on duties of civil offi- 

 cers under the act of Congress, 514 ; organiza- 

 tion of boards of registration by General Ord, 

 515; qualification for registration, 515; reso- 

 lutions of a meeting of whites and blacks, 515; 

 order aimed at horse-stealing, 515 ; order re- 

 specting certain civil affairs, 515 ; circular re- 

 specting opposition to Federal laws on part of 

 civil officers, 515 ; further registration regula- 

 tions, 515; investigation ordered of charge 

 of driving off laborers, etc., 515 ; clerks and 

 judges of elections provided for, 515 ; views 

 of the press on these provisions, 516 ; no liquor 

 to be sold at the election, 616 ; newspapers 

 specified to publish United States laws, 516; 

 trials by court-martial, 516 ; Vicksburg officials 

 removed, 616 ; Kepublican Convention, 516 ; 

 other political parties, 616 ; trials by military 

 commission and other regulations, 516 ; volun- 

 tary exiles required to report at headquarters, 

 516; result of registration, 517; election or- 

 dered, 617; assertions with regard to appoint- 

 ment of delegates, 517; division of political 

 sentiment, 617; resignation of Chief-Justice, 

 617; removals and appointments, 517; board 

 of arbitration to adjust claims on the year's 

 crop, etc., 518 ; agriculture of the year, 518 ; 

 extract from report of Commissioner of Freed- 

 men's Bureau on labor and agriculture, 518 ; 



