VIRGINIA. 



VIRGINIA, WEST. 



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gates, 712 ; address to the people by promi- 

 nent Republicans, 712 ; convention of the 

 Conservative party, 712 ; reports of the Com- 

 mittee on Business, 712, 713 ; address to the 

 people, 713 ; election results, 713 ; members 

 of the Legislature and the test-oath, 713 ; meet- 

 ing of the Legislature, 713 ; message of the 

 Governor, 713 ; ratification of the fourteenth 

 and fifteenth amendments, 714; election of 

 United States Senators, 714; convention of 

 leaders of the radical Republican party, 714 ; 

 proceedings, 714 ; majority report on the elec- 

 tion, 714; minority report, 714; passage of 

 the bill for the readmission of the State into 

 the Union, 715 ; military order of General 

 Canby turning the State government over to 

 the civil authorities, 715 ; installation of Gov- 

 ernor "Walker, 716 ; proclamation announcing 

 the consummation of reconstruction, 716; cost 

 of reconstruction, 716; the Csesar Griffin case, 

 716. 



X. Admission of, 743 ; session of the Leg- 

 islature, 744; proceedings, 744; State debt, 

 744 ; taxation, 744 ; views of the people, 745 ; 

 declaration of the Committee of the Conserva- 

 tive party, 745 ; Republican Convention, 746 ; 

 their views, 746 ; election, 746 ; contest for 

 the office of mayor in Richmond, 746, 747; 

 legal proceedings, 747, 748 ; population, 749 ; 

 immigration, 749 ; disaster at the capital, 749 ; 

 on the James and Shenandoah Rivers, 749 ; at 

 the Spotswood Hotel, 750. 



XI. Session of the Legislature, 762 ; debt, 

 762 ; terms of West Virginia separation, 762 ; 

 opposition to proposed settlement, 763 ; bill 

 for the arrangement of the debt passed, 763 ; 

 funding bill, 764 ; agitation on the subject of 

 the finances, 764 ; railroad legislation, 764 ; Bu- 

 reau of Immigration organized, 765 ; value of 

 real estate, 765 ; school system, 765 ; Conser- 

 vative Convention, 765 ; Republican Conven- 

 tion, 766; election, 766; census details, 766, 

 767. 



XEL Legislation relating to finances, 794; 

 new tax law, 795 ; protest of foreign holders 

 of bonds against suspending the funding pro- 

 cess and altering the coupons, 795 ; the con- 

 stitutionality of the act changing the bonds 

 tested, 795 ; opinion of the court, 795 ; dis- 

 senting opinion of Judge Staples, 796 ; views 

 of the Governor as to the best financial policy, 

 796 ; finances, 796 ; action of parties, 797 ; re- 

 sults of the election, 797 ; amendment to the 



constitution, 797 ; schools, 797 ; State institu- 

 tions, 797 ; public improvements, 797 ; decision 

 of the Supreme Court of Appeals on the home- 

 stead act, 797 ; statistics of occpuations, 797, 

 798 ; of agriculture, 798 ; of manufactures, 

 798 ; of newspapers and periodicals, 798 ; of 

 libraries, 798 ; of churches, 798 ; of pauperism 

 and crime, 798. 



XIII. Session of the Legislature, 765 ; act 

 relative to interest, 766 ; Board of Immigra- 

 tion, 766 ; Republican Convention, 766 ; nomina- 

 tions, 766 ; resolutions, 766 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 767; resolutions, 767; nominations, 

 767 ; election, 767 ; Legislature, 767 ; railroad 

 routes from the West to Richmond, 768 ; Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio Railroad, 768 ; State debt, 768 ; 

 Richmond city, 769; communications, 769; 

 commerce, 769 ; exports, 769. 



XIV. Financial condition of the State, 804 ; 

 views of the Governor, 804; funded debt, 

 804 ; taxation, 805 ; internal revenue, 805 ; 

 legislation, 805 ; action relative to the debt, 

 805 ; State affairs, 805 ; parties in the Legisla- 

 ture, 805 ; Congressmen -elect, 805. 



XV. Acts of the Legislature, 751 ; griev- 

 ances of the colored voters, 751 ; resolutions, 

 751; Colored Educational Convention, 752; 

 results of the election, 752; general condition 

 of the State, 752 ; debt, 752 ; where held, 752 ; 

 revenue, 752 ; expenditures, 753 ; taxable prop- 

 erty, 753 ; public schools, 753 ; school-funds, 

 753 ; colleges, 753 ; Insane Asylum, 753 ; 

 boundary arbitration, 753; centennial appro- 

 priation, 753 ; State officers, 753 ; election of 

 Senator, 754; earthquake-shock, 754; statue 

 of Stonewall Jackson, 754. 



VIRGINIA, EAST. III. Organization, 844; 

 officers, 844 ; emancipation convention, 844. 



IV. Convention to amend the constitution, 

 809 ; counties represented, 809 ; proceedings, 

 809 ; amendments adopted, 809 ; election of 

 State officers, 810; address of Governor Pier- 

 pont to the people of Norfolk, 810 ; order of 

 General Butler, 810 ; difficulties, 810. 



VIRGINIA, WEST. I. Its attachment to the 

 Union, 742; boundaries, 743; a convention 

 called, 743 ; its proceedings, 743 ; Declaration 

 of Independence, 743 ; speech of the new Gov- 

 ernor, 743; address of Governor Letcher to 

 the people, 743 ; McClellan's proclamation, 

 744; population, 744 ; Attorney-General Bates 

 on the situation of Western Virginia as a State, 

 745; McClellan's proclamation to the Union 



