WELLS, SAMUEL. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



433 



of Louisiana, 513 ; position, 513 ; proclama- 

 tions, 509, 511 ; address, 510. 



VII. Course as Governor of Louisiana, 

 452. 



WELLS, SAMUEL. VIII. Birth, 763 ; death, 

 763 ; career, 763. 



WELLS, SAMUEL. XV. Decease of, 574. 



WELTI, Dr. E. XII. President of the Swiss 

 Confederation in 1872, 751. 



WELWITSCH, Dr. FREDERICK. XII. Obitu- 

 ary, 647. 



WENTWORTH, JOHN. VII. Representative 

 from Illinois, 131 ; offers a resolution on re- 

 construction, 204. 



WERNIGERODE, Count OTTO. XV. Biographi- 

 cal sketch of, 655. 



WESSON, DAVID. XI. Obituary of, 586. 



WEST, Rev, J. J. XII. Obituary, 645. 



WEST, J. RODMAN. XIV. Senator from 

 Louisiana, 150; on the Louisiana bill, 230- 

 235. 



WEST, NATHANIEL, IV. Birth, 813; writ- 

 ings, 813 ; death, 813. 



WEST, W. H. G. XII. Obituary, 623. 



WEST INDIES. XII. Geographical explora- 

 tions and discoveries in, 339. 



WESTMACOTT, Prof. RICHARD R. XII. Obitu- 

 ary, 642. 



WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY. XII. Num- 

 ber of students, admissions, and vacancies, 24. 



WEST VIRGINIA. III. Act consenting to 

 the division of Virginia, 306. 



VII. Outrages in portions of the State, 

 766 ; finances, 766 ; value of assessed property, 

 766 ; board for equalizing assessments of lands, 

 766 ; Insane Asylum, 766 ; do. of dumb and 

 blind, 766 ; free-sqhool system, 766 ; normal 

 schools, 766 ; Agricultural College, 766 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 766 ; immigration from Europe, 766 ; 

 result of the election, 767. 



VIII. Legislation, 763 ; registration, 763 ; 

 location of the capital, 763; impeachment of 

 Judge Hinman, 763 ; extra legislative session, 

 764; its objects, 764; resolutions relative to 

 the test-oath, 764 ; congratulating Virginia 

 loyalists, 764; on the impeachment of the 

 President, 764 ; codification, 764 ; finances, 

 764 ; Insane Asylum, 764 ; schools, 764 ; Re- 

 publican Convention, 764 ; resolutions and 

 nominations, 765 ; Democratic Convention, 765 ; 

 resolutions and nominations, 765 ; election, 

 765. 



IX. Popular sentiment on the removal 



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of political disabilities, 719; test-oaths, 719; 

 finances, 719 ; State debt, 720 ; schools, 720 ; 

 normal schools, 720 ; charitable and reforma- 

 tory institutions, 720 ; Hospital for the Insane, 

 720 ; meeting of the Legislature, 720 ; ratifica- 

 tion of the fifteenth amendment, 720; con- 

 struction of a new State-House, 720 ; election 

 of members of the Legislature, 721 ; manufact- 

 uring and mining interests, 721. 



X. Division of the old State debt, 750 ; ef- 

 forts for settlement, 751 ; action of the Gov- 

 ernor, 751 ; legislative session, 751 ; Demo- 

 cratic State Convention, 751 ; resolutions, etc., 

 752 ; Republican Convention and nominations, 

 752 ; the disfranchisement question, 752 ; reg- 

 istration, 753; legal decisions, 753; election, 

 753 ; population, 753 ; State finances, 754 ; 

 public education, 754 ; charitable institutions, 

 754. 



XI. Difficulties with Virginia, 769 ; action 

 of the Legislature, 769; amendment of the 

 constitution proposed, 769 ; carried, 770 ; proc- 

 lamation of the Governor, 769 ; new election 

 law, 770; convention bill passed, 770; elec- 

 tion, 770 ; acts of Legislature, 770 ; finances 

 of the State, 771 ; condition of the debt, 771 ; 

 negotiations with Virginia, 771 ; census details, 

 772 ; State institutions, 773. 



XII. Meeting of the Legislature, 798 ; meet- 

 ing of the Constitutional Convention, 798; 

 adoption of the new constitution, 798 ; its 

 chief features, 798, 799 ; liability of West Vir- 

 ginia for her proportional share in the public 

 debt of Virginia, 799 ; ratification of the con- 

 stitution, 800 ; composition of the Legislature, 

 800 ; term of office of State officials, 800 ; Lib- 

 eral Republicans and Liberal Democrats favor 

 Chief-Justice Chase for the presidency, 800 ; 

 platform, 800; Republican State Convention 

 and resolutions, 800; convention of the Demo- 

 cratic and Conservative party, 801 ; nomina- 

 tions and platform, 801 ; results of the August 

 election, 801 ; presidential election, 802 ; finan- 

 ces, 892 ; University of West Virginia, 802 ; 

 State institutions, 802 ; adjournment of the Leg- 

 islature, 802 ; statistics of occupations, 802 ; of 

 agriculture, 802 ; of manufactures, 802 ; news- 

 papers and periodicals, 803; libraries, 803; 

 churches, 803 ; pauperism and crime, 803. 



XIII. Session of the Legislature, 771 ; pro- 

 ceedings, 771 ; appropriations, 771 ; disagree- 

 ment with the Governor on the appointing 

 power, 771 ; case in court, 771 ; opinion of the 



