[939] Shepherd, “Constitution and Ordinances,” 1865, p. 49; Ordinance No. 14.
[940] N. Y. Herald, Sept. 22, 1865.
[941] Annual Cyclopædia (1865), p. 17; N. Y. Times, Sept. 29, 1865; N. Y. Herald, Oct. 15, 1865; Shepherd, “Constitution and Ordinances,” 1865, pp. 53, 54; Ordinances Nos. 25-28, September, 1865. In spite of this ordinance certain war debts were paid. Fowler, Superintendent of Army Records, was paid $3000 for his work during the war, the legislature buying the records from him. Coleman, a Confederate judge, was paid for services during the war. See Acts 65-66 and the Journal of the Convention of 1867. The newspaper reports give summaries of the debates on the more important ordinances; the Journal of the Convention gives only the votes and resolutions.
[942] Chairman of the committee on suffrage, Convention of 1901.
[943] It seems to have been taken for granted by the convention that slavery was already abolished.
[944] The amnesty proclamation expressly excepted property in slaves.
[945] Annual Cyclopædia (1865), p. 14; N. Y. Times, Sept. 30, 1865.
[946] “Loyalist,” and later a “scalawag.”
[947] N. Y. Herald, Oct. 15, 1865.
[948] Journal of the Convention, 1865, p. 49.