Minnesota, meaning of word, 1. Area east of the Mississippi (“Minnesota East”): ceded by France to England (1763), 2, 31; effect of proclamation of George III (1763), 36; operation of the Quebec act of 1774, 37; claim of Virginia, 37; becomes part of the Northwest Territory (1787), 38; remains in control of the Northwest Company of Montreal, 39; British control ends (1815), 52; part of successive territories, 58; excluded from the State of Wisconsin (1848), 86; treated by Congress as the Territory of Wisconsin, 86. Area west of the Mississippi (“Minnesota West”): ceded by France to Spain (1762), 31, 42; retroceded (1801), 43; bought of France by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase, 43. As Territory: bill to organize in 1846, defeated, 88; created (1849), 88; proclaimed, 89; boundaries and area, 89; laws of Wisconsin remain in force, 90; provisional counties and judicial districts, 90; first census, election, and legislature, 91; capital located at St. Paul, 91; code of 1851, 91; population, 90, 120, 149. As State: enabling act (1857), 133; boundaries and area, 135; constitutional convention in two bodies, 137; they agree on one constitution, 141; ratified, 148; opposition in Congress to admission to the Union, 151; admitted, 153; state officers qualified, 157; latitude and longitude, 363; “Heart of the Continent,” 364; elevation and temperature, 364; population, 175, 252, 270, 307, 333, 364. Minnesota colleges, 353. Minnesota Historical Society incorporated, 91. Minnesota River, course of, 1. Minnesota state railroad adjustment bonds, 331. _See_ Five million loan. Minnesota troops, in Civil War, 178, 186, 188, 247; in Spanish War, 350. Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company, incorporated (1854), 122; land grant before Congress, 123; bill for land grant repealed, 125; act of 1854 held repealed by Supreme Court of United States, 127. Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Co., chartered, 161; superseded by the St. Paul and Pacific, 285. Missions, first, in Minnesota, 27; beginning of Chippeway, 64; first to Sioux, 65; at Kaposia, 68; Methodist, at Redwing, 68; Catholic, at Lac qui Parle and Chaska, 68; why unfruitful, 68. Mississippi, the, rumors of, 14; discovered (1673), 16. Monopoly of markets forbidden, constitutional amendment, 346. Munch, Emil, Captain of First Light Battery, 187; wounded at Shiloh, 187; state treasurer, 298. Natural history survey, 303. Neal commission, 114. Neill, Rev. E. D., draws bill for free schools, 91; chaplain of First Minnesota, 179; superintendent of public instruction, 255. Nelson, Knute, governor (1893-95), 340; elected to United States Senate, 340. New France, a royal province (1663), 13.