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eleemosynary institutions, 538, 539; militia, 

 539 ; resources of the State, 539 ; Legislature, 

 539 ; striking out the word " white," 539 ; Re- 

 publican Convention, 539 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 540 ; election, 540. 



VIII. Proceedings of the Legislature, 540 ; 

 withdrawal of assent to the fourteenth amend- 

 ment of the Federal Constitution, 540 ; decla- 

 ration of the preamble, 540 ; objections to the 

 amendment, 540 ; veto of the Governor, 541 ; 

 passage over the veto, 541 ; action of Congress, 

 541 ; indignation of the Legislature, 541 ; its 

 resolutions, 541 ; the question of negro suffrage, 

 541 ; repeal of the registry law; 542 ; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 542 ; resolutions, 542 ; Dem- 

 ocratic Convention, 542 ; resolutions, 542, 

 543 ; second convention, 543 ; results of elec- 

 tion, 543; duties from railroads, 543; State 

 finances, 543 ; children, 544 ; bridging the Del- 

 aware, 544; rights of the Episcopal clergy, 

 544 ; penitentiary, 544. 



IX. The Legislature, 480; legislation, 480; 

 finances, 480 ; school-fund, 481 ; State Normal 

 School, 481 ; number of patients in the Luna- 

 tic Asylum, 481 ; valuation of taxable property, 

 481 ; militia force, 481 ; Reform School for 

 Juveniles, 481 ; geological survey, 481 ; Cam- 

 den & Amboy Railroad, 481 ; increase of pas- 

 sengers, 482 ; receipts, 482 ; the Stevens Bat- 

 tery, 482; births, marriages, and deaths, 482; 

 New Jersey and Sandy Hook pilots, 482 ; elec- 

 tion for members of the Legislature, 483. 



X. Meeting of the Legislature, 541 ; legisla- 

 tion, 541 ; refused to ratify fifteenth amend- 

 ment, 541 ; Chinese labor, 541 ; election for 

 members of Legislature and of Congress, 542 ; 

 Bergen "Tunnel war," 542; finances, 542; 

 school-fund, 542 ; public schools, 542 ; public 

 institutions, 542; militia, 542; pilot system, 

 543 ; Federal census, 543. 



XL Session of the Legislature, 545 ; parties, 

 545 ; registry law, 545 ; railroads, 545 ; procla- 

 mation of the Governor relative to enforcing 

 registry law, 545 ; school law, 546 ; finances, 

 546; receipts, 546; action of the Governor 

 relative to Orangemen's processions, 546 ; Re- 

 publican Convention, 546; resolutions, etc., 

 547; Democratic Convention, 547; resolutions, 

 etc., 547; election results, 547; consolidation 

 of railroads, 547; terms, 548; other railway 

 enterprises, 548; schools, 548; agricultural 

 statistics, 549 ; census details, 549. 



XII. Session of the Legislature, 574; legis- 



lation, 574 ; reapportionment of congression- 

 al districts, 575 ; Republican Convention for 

 choosing delegates to National Convention, 

 575 ; resolutions, 575 ; election of Democratic 

 delegates, 575 ; resolutions 575 ; convention of 

 colored voters, 575, 576 ; resolutions, 576 ; 

 Democratic and Liberal Republican Conven- 

 tions for selecting presidential electors, 576 ; 

 Democratic resolutions, 576 ; sentiments of 

 the Liberal Republicans, 576; convention of 

 "Straight-outs," 576; resolutions, 576; proc- 

 lamation of Governor Parker against bribery at 

 elections, 577 ; election results, 677 ; finances, 

 577 ; public schools, 577 ; Lunatic Asylum, 

 578; State-prison, 578; Industrial School for 

 Girls, 578; State Library, 578; statistics of 

 occupations, 578; of manufactures, 578; of 

 newspapers and periodicals, 578 ; of libraries, 

 578 ; of churches, 578 ; of pauperism and crime, 

 578 ; important railroad movements, 579 ; leas- 

 ing of the United New Jersey Railroad and Ca- 

 nal Companies to the Pennsylvania Company, 

 579 ; lines controlled by the united companies, 

 579 ; union of the Central Railroad of New 

 Jersey and the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 

 ern, 579; suit to prevent the National Rail- 

 way Company from constructing a railroad 

 connecting New York and Philadelphia, 580 ; 

 important railroad projects, 581 ; amendment 

 of the constitution recommended, 581. 



XIII. General railroad bill, 535; expres- 

 sion of public sentiment, 535 ; important feat- 

 ures of the law, 535 ; action of the National 

 Company, 536 ; Easton & Amboy road, 536 ; 

 law relative to the taxation of railroads, 536 ; 

 its provisions, 536 ; validity of the lease, 537 ; 

 parties in the Legislature, 537 ; State officers, 

 537 ; commissioners for the revision of the con- 

 stitution, 537 ; their report, 537 ; amendments 

 proposed, 537, 538 ; finances of the State, 539 ; 

 debt, 539; taxes, 539; schools, 539; number 

 of deaf, dumb, and feeble-minded children, 539 ; 

 insane, 539 ; militia, 539 ; State-prison, 539. 



XIY. Constitutional amendments approved 

 by the Legislature, 599, 600 ; the Stevens Bat^ 

 tery, 600 ; Republican Convention and nom- 

 inations, 600 ; platform, 600 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention and nominations, 601 ; platform, 601 ; 

 results of the election, 602 ; finances, 602 ; war- 

 debt, 602 ; taxable property, 602 ; Insane Asy 

 lum at Morristown, 603 ; Industrial School for 

 Girls, 603; Soldiers' Children's Home, 603; 

 school system, 603 ; State-prison, 603 ; Reform- 



