Penitentiary, 145.
Pennsylvania, 45, 90, 190,

240.

Pensions, 217.

Petition, right, 157, 258.

Petit jury, 118.

Physical features, 3-6.

Pickering, John, 230.

Pierce County, 42.

Pike's Peak, 49.
Piracy, 196, 237.

Plains, 3, 5, 21, 22.

Platte, 3, 30, 31.
Plattsmouth, 48.
Pleadings, 118.

Plenipotentiaries, 244, 245.
Plumbe, John, 65.

Police judge, 86, 112, 115.
Politics, State, 58, 59.

Polk County System, nomi-
nations 133, 134, 135.
Polling the jury, 120.
Poll tax, 126.

Ponca, 7, 76.

Popular sovereignty, 32.

Property, taking, 261.
Property taxation, 123.

Ports of entry, 151.

Poncas, 8, 9, 41.

Population, 61.

Prosecutions, criminal, 212.
Protection by U. S., 256.
Protection of the laws, 216.
Public acts, 253.
Public debt, 217.
Public Institutions, 143.
Punishments, 212.
Punishment, Indians, 12.
Purchase of Louisiana, 28-
30.

Qualifications: Congress-

man, 189-90; President,
242; state judges, 168;
state legislature, 158, 160;
state officers, 163; superv.
of registration, 135; U.S.,
senator, 191.

Quartering armies, 157, 211.
Quivera, 16, 22, 23, 25.
Quorum, st. legislature, 159.
Quorum, U. S. Ho. of Rep.
or Senate, 193.
Race, franchise, 218.
Raids, Indian, 12.

Railroads: 65, 175, 176, 178;
land-grants, 151-152; tax-
es, 128.

Rainfall, 4-5.
Ranges, 73.

Rank of Nebraska, 62, 63,
64.
Ratification, U. S. Const.,
209, 262.

Readings of a bill, 105.
Rebellion, 217.
Records, 253.
Ree, 10.

Reese, M. B., 56.

Reform, civil service, 151.
Reform, nominations, 134.
Reform schools, 144, 145,
146, 173.

Regents, State Univ., 140.
Register of deeds, 75.
Registration, 135.
Religion, rights, 155.
Religious test, 155, 208, 257
261.

Resources, Nebraska, 61-68.
Reporter, state supt. ct.,
168.

Reports, state officers, 166.
Reports, U. S. treasurer,
198, 250.

Representatives, U. S., 152,
200, 216, 217, 224, 225, 227.
Representatives, territory,

42.

Republican party, 33.
Republican Pawnees, 10.
Residence, 224.
Return, 115.

Revenue bills, U. S, 194.
Revenue laws, territory, 47.
Revenue of U. S. in Ne-
braska, 148.

Revenue, State, 58. 173, 174.
Rhode Island, 190.
Richardson county, 42.
Richardson, Governor, 45.
Right of assembly, 157, 210.
Right of bearing arms, 210.
Right of petition, 157, 258.
Right of property, 157.
Rights, bill of, 257-261.

Rights, constitutional, 212.
Rights, election, 216.
Rights, personal, 155–57.
Rights, religious, 210.
Road district, 92.
Rocky Mountains, 38.
Rules, Houses of Congress,
193.

Salary: judges, 246; sena-
tors, 239; state officers,
167; President, 202, 242:
Vice-President, 243.
Saline County, 73, 133.
Saloons, elections, 136.
Salt Lake, 20.
Sample ballot, 37.
Saunders, Alvin, 57.
Saunders County, 133.
Savage, J. W., 17.
Saxons, institutions, 88.
Schools:

141; cost, 142;

school board, 80; district,
78-82.

Scott's Bluff County, irri-
gation, 67.
Seal, State, 167.
Searches, 156, 211.
Secretaries of depart-
ments, 242.

Secretary of treasury, 250.
Secretary, territory, 34.
Secret proceedings, 231.
Section, 74, 76.

Sections, school, 141, 254.
Security, personal, 156.
Seizures, 211.

Senate, State, 158.

Senate, U. S, 191-192, 194,
202, 214, 215, 223, 226, 227,
230, 245.

Senators: State, number,
55,

Senators, U. S.: 57, 200, 217,
231; classes, 191; pay, 239,
qualifications, 191; term,
228, N. 2; vacancies, 191.
Sentence, 120.
Sessions:

Congress, 230;
state legislature, 55, 159,
183, 184.

Seward Co., 33, 73, 133.

Special taxes, 126.

"Spoils" system, 151.
Squatter sovereignty, 32.
Standard parallels, 72, 73.
Stanton Co., 73.
Stark, W. L., 57.

State: 52-60; boards, 112,
140; central committee,
132; State church, 258;
department, 243; funds,
125; government, 97; in-
spection laws, 199, 252;
legislature, 53. 158-163,
217; new, 254, 255; powers,
216, 220; states, militia,
197, 238; suits, against,
213; superintendent, 142;
treaties, 198.

Supreme Law, 208, 256.
Surprise, 75.

Surveys, railroad, 65.

Survey, U. S. Land, 71, 254.
Suspension, writs, 193.
Swiss Confederacy, 240.
Taffe, John, 57.
Tatarrax, 23.

Taxable property, 123.
Taxation, 122-129.
Taxes: 173, 234; consolida-
ted, 126; direct, 190; im-
portation of slaves, 197;
national, 190, 195; rail-
roads, 128; school, 81,
141; slaves, 249; special,
126,
Texas, 254, 255.
Teachers, 142.
Tender, 251.

Tennessee, 255.

Term: judges, 246; presi-
dent, 240.

State legislature, 158.
State offices, 169, 182; U. S.
senator, 191, 228.
Territories, 228, 254.
Territory of Nebraska, 38,
51.

Territory of U. S., 206, 207.
Test, religious, 257.
Teutons, 89, 90.
Thayer County, 133.
Thayer, John M., 56, 57.
Third reading, 103.

Thurston, J. M., 57.
Ticket, 133, 139.

Tie, voting, 140.

Tipton, Thomas W., 57.

Titles of nobility, 198, 199,

250.

Troops, 199.

Trustees, village, 84.
Two houses in legislatures,
223.

Underground railroad, 46.
Uniformity of taxes, U. S.,
195.

Union Pacific, 65.

University, 141, note 2, 171.
United States Const.: 187;
courts, jurisdiction, 150;
growth, 219; office-holder,
217; powers, 220; Senate,
191; senators, 57, 152, 183;
U. S. Supreme Court, 246.
Utah, 149.

Utah Territory, 38, 40, 41.
Utica, 75.

Vacancies: U. S. House of
Reps., 215, 2.6; Presiden-
cy, 201; state judges, 170;
state officers, 162, 166; U.
S. senators, 191, 228; U.
S. officers, 203, 245.
Valentine, E K, 57.
Valley, Platte, 3.
Valuation, 124.

Valuation, whole state, 128.
Valuation, high, low, 127.
Van Wyck, C. H., 57.
Verdict, 120.

Vermont, 255.

Veto, 35, 165, 194, 195.
Vice-consul, 246.

Vice-President, 191, 199, 201,

203, 213, 214, 215, 229, 242.
Villages, 62.

Villages, 83-87.
Virginia, 190, 239.

Voters: 130; registration,
135; school election, 80;
territory, 35.

Vote, final on bills, 109.
Votes, electoral, 200, 241.
Votes, counting, 138.
Voting: 157; by states,
200; Congress of the
Confederation, 227; elec-
tors, 201; voting rights,
216, 218.
Wards, 84.