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ing distillation of whiskey, G93 ; Order No. 32, 

 relating to jurors, licenses, certain contracts, 

 and other civil regulations, 694; regulations 

 regarding criminal arrests and trials, 694 ; Gen- 

 eral Sickles asks to be relieved, 695; delays 

 registration for more explicit measures on the 

 subject, 695 ; remonstrances against Orders Nos. 

 10 and 32, 695 ; Union Republican Convention, 

 695 ; registration regulations, 696 ; citizens 

 ask the advice of General Hampton with regard 

 to registering, 696 ; General Hampton's reply, 

 697; General Sickles sets aside a decree of 

 the Court of Chancery, involving money con- 

 tributed to the Confederacy, 697; steamboat 

 captain tried for refusing first-class passage to 

 a negro, 697 ; General Sickles relieved by Gen- 

 eral Canby, 697 ; General Canby requires the 

 return of voluntary exiles, 698 ; modification 

 of the provision of Order No. 32, relating to 

 jurors, 698; former regulations for drawing 

 jurors, 698 ; results of the change, 698 ; Judge 

 Aldrich removed for not complying with the 

 new regulations, 698 ; further regulations on 

 the jury question, 698 ; provisions for taxation 

 and raising revenue, 699 ; order modifying 

 Orders Nos. 10, 25, and 32, 699 ; result of regis- 

 tration, 699 ; provisions for the election, 700 ; 

 political conventions, 700 ; address of the Con- 

 servatives to the people, 700 ; result of the 

 election, 700; assembling of the convention, 

 TOO ; suffering from destitution, and its relief, 

 700 ; labor of freedmen, 700 ; schools of Freed- 

 men's Bureau, 701 ; penitentiary, 701. 



VIII. Meeting of the State Convention, 

 693 ; organization, 693 ; address of Governor 

 Orr, 693 ; subjects considered, 693 ; stay law, 

 693 ; resolutions relating to the Executive, 693 ; 

 do. miscellaneous, 694 ; Bill of Rights, 694 ; 

 oath of office, 694; State officers, 694 ; judicia- 

 ry, 694 ; administration of justice, 695 ; quali- 

 fications of voters, 695; public and private 

 schools, 695 ; registration, 695 ; regulations to 

 preserve order, 695 ; ^Republican Convention 

 and nominations, 695; Democratic Conven- 

 tion and resolutions, 696 ; orders of the com- 

 manding general, 696 ; elections, 697 ; ground 

 of Democratic opposition to the Constitution, 

 697; Legislature convened, 697; its proceed- 

 ings, 698 ; State officers, 698 ; laws passed, 

 698 ; Democratic Convention and resolutions, 

 698; another convention, 699; resolutions, 

 699 ; address to the colored citizens, 699 ; elec- 

 tions, 700 ; State debt, 700 ; State property, 700. 



IX. Meeting of the Legislature, 633 ; major- 

 ity of colored members, 633 ; proceedings, 633 ; 

 legislation to secure the enforcement of the 

 civil-rights bill, 633 ; reorganization of the 

 militia, 633 ; law in reference to contracts and 

 Confederate notes, 633 ; popular sentiment in 

 reference to Federal appointments in the State, 

 634 ; controversy in regard to the election of 

 municipal officers in Charleston, 634; labor 

 and capital, 635 ; resolutions of the State La- 

 bor Convention, 635 ; finances, 636 ; operations 

 of the Land Commission, 636 ; schools, 636 ; 

 lunatic asylum, 636; penitentiary, 636; de- 

 crease in the value of property, 637 ; number 

 and value of live-stock in 1860 and 1869, 637; 

 census of 1869, 637. 



X. Acts of the Legislature, 680 ; discrimi- 

 nation of color, 680 ; elections, how canvassed, 

 681 ; Reform Party Convention, 681 ; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 682; election, 682; State 

 debt, 682; penitentiary, 683; lunatic asylum, 

 682 ; railroad property, 683 ; immigration, 683 ; 

 population, 684. 



XI. Session of the Legislature, 697; creat- 

 ing the sterling funded debt, 697 ; tax levy$ 

 697 ; financial condition of the State, 698 ; the 

 Tax-payers' Convention, 698 ; resolutions, 098 ; 

 minority representation, 699 ; statement of the 

 State finances, 699 ; charge of an over-issue of 

 bonds, 699 ; explanation, 699 ; statement of 

 the debt by the Governor, 700 ; investigation 

 of the alleged over-issue of bonds, 700 ; out- 

 rages and murders in the upper country, 700 ; 

 armed bands, 701 ; proclamation of the Pres- 

 ident, 701 ; supplementary proclamation, 701 ; 

 trials of the arrested, 701 ; public-school edu- 

 cation, 701 ; condition of the State institutions, 

 702 ; census statistics, 702. 



XII. Finances, 731 ; legislation concerning 

 finances, 732; bill to provide for settlement 

 with financial agent, 733 ; act to relieve the 

 State from railroad bonds, 733 ; vetoed, 733 ; 

 passed over the veto, 733 ; general license law, 

 733 ; amendment of the constitution on public 

 debt, 733 ; unconstitutional acts, 734 ; opinion 

 of the court, 734 ; mandamus issued to -Secre- 

 tary of State to affix the seal to certain bonds, 

 734; legal proceedings, 734; removal of the 

 State Auditor, 734 ; embarrassed condition of 

 the Treasury, 735 ; acts of the Legislature, 

 735; Republican Convention, 736 ; resolutions, 

 736; Democratic Convention, 736 ; resolutions, 

 736; minority favor Baltimore Convention, 



