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TEXAS. 



688; vote of the State for members of the 

 convention, 688 ; ordinance of secession, 688 ; 

 vote of the people upon it, 689; vote at the 

 presidential election, 689 ; difficulty between 

 the Governor and the State Convention, 689 ; 

 action of the convention, 690; condition of 

 affairs, 690; war loan, 690; United States 

 forces in Texas, 690 ; surrender of Twiggs, 690 ; 

 seizure of public property, 690; surrender of 

 Major Sibley, 691 ; surrender of Colonel Reeve, 

 691 ; address of ex-Governor Houston to the 

 people, 692 ; his letter to the people in favor 

 of the Confederate Government, 692 ; inter- 

 course with Northern people prohibited, 692 ; 

 state of affairs at the close of the year, 693 ; 

 troops in the field, 693 ; crops, 693. 



II. Population, 773 ; crops, 773 ; affairs in, 

 773 ; occupation of Galveston, 773 ; its sub- 

 sequent capture, 774. 



III. Message of the Governor, 828 ; troops 

 furnished for the war, 828 ; revenue, 828 ; 

 manufactures, 828 ; impressments, 829 ; prices, 

 829 ; blockade running, 829 ; election, 829. 



IV. Success of agriculture, 775; military 

 operations, 775 ; Union sentiment, 775. 



V. Unsettled condition of affairs, 786 ; ac- 

 tion of Governor Murrah, 780 ; General Ham- 

 ilton appointed Provisional Governor, 786; 

 proclamation, 786; reorganization of the judi- 

 ciary, 786 ; rulings of Judge McFarland, 787 ; 

 registration of voters, 787 ; trouble with the 

 negroes, 787 ; order of General Granger in re- 

 lation to freedmen, 787 ; relations of negroes 

 and planters, 788 ; condition of the State 

 Treasury, 788 ; railroads, 788 ; sugar 'and cot- 

 ton region, 789 ; cotton and corn region, 789 ; 

 grain-region, 789 ; stock-raising country, 789 ; 

 the desert, 789; rivers, 789; stock -growing, 

 790 ; sheep-raising, 790. 



VI. The State Convention, 741 ; ordinance 

 declaring null the ordinance of secession, 741 ; 

 ordinance relative to the war debt, 741 ; civil 

 rights conferred on freedmen, 741 ; other acts 

 of the convention, 741, 742 ; vote by the people 

 on constitutional amendments, 742 ; session of 

 the Legislature, 742; finances, 742; schools, 

 742 ; Insane Asylum, 742 ; Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum, 742 ; Blind Asylum, 742 ; geological 

 survey, 743 ; other acts of the Legislature, 

 743; correspondence of the Governor with 

 the President, 743. 



VII. Material interests, 713 ; Indian in- 

 cursions, 714 ; financial condition, 714 ; schools 



and public institutions, 714 ; operations of the 

 Land-Office, 714 ; asylums, 714 ; made a part 

 of the Fifth Military District, 714; General 

 Griffin in command of the State, 714; order 

 regarding protection of persons and property, 

 and punishment of offences, 714 ; elections 

 prohibited, 715 ; removal of civil officers, 715 ; 

 order for protection of freedmen, 715; re- 

 moval of Governor Throckmorton, 715; re- 

 moval of a district judge, 715; further re- 

 movals, 715 ; explanation and enforcement of 

 Federal authority by Governor Pease, 715; 

 registration of voters, 715. 



VIII. Military commanders, 727; Uvalde 

 County, 727 ; General Hancock's views, 728 ; 

 reply of Governor Pease, 728; registration, 

 728; memoranda of disqualifications, 728; 

 questions to be asked, 728 ; views of General 

 Hancock, 729; number registered, 729; Con- 

 servative Convention, 729; resolutions, 729; 

 meeting of the State Convention, 729; organi- 

 zation, 729 ; Governor's message, 729 ; report 

 on lawlessness in the State, 730; commission 

 to Washington, 730 ; Democratic Convention, 

 730; committee on the charges of lawless- 

 ness, 730 ; report, 730 ; order of General Rey- 

 nolds, 730 ; assigned to command, 730 ; Dem- 

 ocratic Convention, 731 ; resolutions, 731 ; 

 Republican Convention, 731 ; recommendation 

 to vote for President, 731 ; order of General 

 Reynolds, 731 ; State Constitutional Conven- 

 tion reassembled, 731 ; Bill of Rights, 732 ; 

 Legislature, 732 ; State officers, 732 ; qualifi- 

 cation of voters, 732 ; right of suffrage, 732 ; 

 public schools, 732 ; general provisions, 732, 

 733. 



IX. Progress of reconstruction, 671 ; meet- 

 ing of the Constitutional Convention, 671 ; 

 discord among the members, 671 ; division of 

 the Republican party, 671 ; General Canby's 

 account of the condition of affairs in the State, 

 672 ; question of dividing the State, 672 ; reso- 

 lutions of the Republican State Convention, 

 672 ; newspaper account of the proceedings 

 of the Constitutional Convention, 672; pro- 

 visions of the constitution, 673 ; suffrage clause, 

 673; test-oath, 673; Bureau of Immigration, 

 673 ; inducements to settlers, 674 ; efforts of 

 Texas commissioners in Washington to have 

 the new constitution set aside, 674 ; proclama- 

 tion of President Grant, postponing the time 

 of the election for voting on the new consti- 

 tution, 674; candidates for State offices, 674; 



