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debt, 629; losses by the war, 629; employ- 

 ment of freedmen, 629 ; colored Equal Rights 

 League, 629. 



VI. Action of the people on the ordinance 

 of secession, 549 ; extra session of the Legis- 

 lature called, 549; debt, 549; State assets, 

 550; valuation of property, 550; act relating 

 to negroes, 550 ; State banks, 550 ; report of 

 legislative committee on extinction of their 

 charters, 550 ; during the Revolution charters 

 of corporations, with all other laws, ceased to 

 exist, 550; charitable institutions, 551; dis- 

 abled soldiers, 551 ; State Convention reassem- 

 bled, 551 ; history of affairs, 551 ; proceedings 

 of the convention, 551 ; its powers discussed, 

 551 ; constitution revised, 551 ; rejected by the 

 people, 551 ; candidates for Governor, 552 ; 

 resolutions of parties, 552; election results, 

 652 ; action of the Legislature on the amend- 

 ment to the Federal Constitution, 552; con- 

 vention of colored persons, 552. 



VII. Action of the Legislature, 546 ; plans 

 of restoration, 546 ; made a part of the Second 

 Military District, 546 ; action of a Republican 

 Convention, 546 ; opening of the Circuit Court, 

 546 ; Chief -Justice Chase on the functions of 

 the military power, 546 ; decision of Chief- 

 Justice Chase in a case involving the seques- 

 tration act of North Carolina, 547; General 

 Sickles's order for relief of debtors, etc., 547 ; 

 conflict of this order with the action of United 

 States Courts, 547 ; General Grant on the or- 

 der, 548 ; General Sickles's explanation, 548 ; 

 removal of General Sickles, 548 ; order re- 

 lating to qualifications of jurors, 548 ; difficulty 

 of complying with the order, 548; General 

 Canby's regulations on the subject, 548 ; Chief- 

 Justice Chase on the selection of jurors, 548 ; 

 ruling of Judge Fowle on admitting colored 

 jurors, 548 ; registration in, 548, 549 ; election 

 ordered, 549 ; result of the election, 549 ; am- 

 nesty law of, 549 ; order enforcing parole con- 

 tracts with persons of color, 550 ; Republican 

 Convention, 550; Conservative mass-meeting, 

 550 ; public distress, 550 ; financial condition, 

 550 ; University of, 550. 



VIII. State Constitutional Convention, 552 ; 

 exclusion of reporters, 552 ; Bill of Rights, 552 ; 

 time of elections, 552 ; oaths, 552 ; judiciary, 

 552 ; elective franchise, 552 ; right of suffrage, 

 552; education, 552; homesteads, 553; con- 

 stitutional amendments, 553 ; objections, 553 ; 

 election provisions, 553; military order of 



General Canby, 553; Conservative Conven- 

 tion, 554; resolutions, 554; Republican Con- 

 vention, 554 ; nominations, 554 ; election, 554 ; 

 organization of the State government, 554; 

 protest of Governor Worth, 554 ; Legislature 

 convened, 555 ; reconstruction consummated, 

 555; resolutions of the Conservatives, 556; 

 militia act, 556 ; registration act, 556 ; conven- 

 tions, 557; elections, 557; railroads, 557.; 

 finances, 557 ; debt, 557. 



IX. Session of the Legislature, 491 ; ratifi- 

 cation of the fifteenth amendment, 491 ; de- 

 feat of the bill favoring a removal of political 

 disabilities, 491 ; decision of the Supreme 

 Court affirming the constitutionality of the 

 homestead law, 491 ; intermarriage of white 

 and colored citizens held unlawful by the Su- 

 preme Court, 491 ; controversy between the 

 members of the bar and the judges of the Su- 

 preme Court, 491 ; disorders, 492 ; admonitory 

 proclamation of Governor Holden, 492 ; con- 

 dition of affairs in the disorderly districts, 492 ; 

 course to be pursued by the Executive, 492; 

 Governor Holden applies to the Legislature 

 for amendments to the militia law, 493; the 

 bill introduced for this purpose, 493 ; opposi- 

 tion thereto, 493 ; meeting of the Legislature, 

 493; tenure of office of the members, 493; 

 policy of the Government in reference to the 

 State debt, 493 ; removal of political disabili- 

 ties, 493 ; views thereon of Governor Holden, 

 494; financial condition, 494; public schools, 

 494 ; charitable institutions, 494. W 



X. Reported disorders, 549; Governor's 

 proclamation, 549 ; other proclamations, 550 ; 

 arrest of Colonel Kirk, 550 ; habeas corpus, 

 550 ; decision of the court, 550 ; letter of the 

 Governor, 551 ; do. to the President, 551 ; let- 

 ter of the President, 551 ; further proceedings 

 of court, 551, 552 ; United States Court, 552 ; 

 application to the President by the Governor, 

 552 ; election, 553 ; choice of Senator, 553 ; 

 charges against the Governor, 553 ; acts of the 

 Legislature, 553; debt, 553; railroads, 553; 

 schools, 553 ; census, 554. 



XI. Impeachment of the Governor, 559; 

 charges, 559; results of trials, 560; resolu- 

 tions offered, 560 ; Ku-klux organization, 560; 

 operations, 560; Union Leagues, 560; im- 

 peachment of Judge Jones, 561 ; resignation, 

 561 ; proceedings suspended, 561 ; proposition 

 for a Constitutional Convention, 561 ; action 

 of the Legislature, 561 ; address to the people, 



