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514	CHRONOLOGY
September 1-2. David Holmes is elected State Governor and Louis Winston, Secretary.
October 6. State legislature opens first session.
December 10. Act of Congress admits Mississippi as a State into the Union.
1818	January 21. Legislature organizes the first Supreme Court.
1819	February 17. Legislature passes an act establishing Elizabeth	Female
Academy at Washington, Miss.
1820	Population, 75,448.
January 5. George Poindexter elected Governor.
October 18. The Treaty of Doak’s Stand is made between U. S. and the Choctaw Nation with an exchange of territory.
1821	Legislature appoints commission to locate a permanent State Capital. Le Fleur's Bluffs on the Pearl River is chosen, and site of new capital is named jackson, in honor of Maj-Gen. Andrew Jackson.
1822	January 23. Legislature convenes at Jackson—the first session in the new capital.
June 30. Poindexter’s Code adopted in special session.
1824	January 23. Imprisonment for debt is abolished in Mississippi
1830	Population, 136,621.
Planters Bank is chartered.
September 15. By Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek the Choctaw Nation cedes to U. S. remainder of their lands east of the Mississippi.
1831	The first Mississippi charter is granted for a railroad, to run from Woodville to St. Francisville, La.
1832	September 10. Constitutional Convention meets at Jackson.
October 26. Convention completes labors.
November. At general elections, people ratify constitution. Under new constitution the judiciary becomes elective.
October 20. By Treaty of Pontotoc Creek the Chickasaw Nation cedes its lands east of the Mississippi to the U. S. and agrees to move from State.
1833	February. Legislature creates the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and appropriates funds for erection of a statehouse and executive mansion.
1836	February 26. Erection of a State Penitentiary is authorized.
1837	January 21. Legislature charters the Mississippi Union Bank and agrees to subscribe the equal of private subscriptions to the limit of $ 15,500,000.
1839	Legislature sanctions the issuance of 15,000,000 State stock for the
Mississippi Union Bank.
The New Capitol, though unfinished, is occupied.
February 15. Legislative act defines married women’s right to property.
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Population, 375.651.
Act of Legislature provides for establishment of a State university at Oxford.
State Penitentiary is occupied.
Gov. McNutt advises legislature to repudiate Union Bank bonds. This is done next year. Indebtedness, $5,000,000 with interest. February 24. The University of Mississippi is incorporated.
March 6. Robert J. Walker is appointed Secretary of the Treasury of U. S.
March 4. The State is divided for the first time into Congressional Districts. Law is passed establishing common schools.
February 23. The Mississippi Volunteers, under command of Col. Davis, render distinguished service at Buena Vista.
February 7. Chickasaw school lands opened for leasing for 99 years. March 2. Institution for the Blind, opened privately in 1847, is authorized.
November 6. University of Mississippi is opened at Oxford. Population, 606,526.
Gov. Quitman, arrested by U. S. authorities for violation of neutrality laws of 1818 by abetting an expedition against Cuba, resigns as Governor. Is acquitted and renominated, but withdraws before election.
The Planters Bank bonds are repudiated. Indebtedness, $2,000,000 with interest.
March 3. President Pierce appoints Jefferson Davis Secretary of War.
August. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb is opened.
January 8. The Asylum for the Insane is opened.
February 6. Amendments (4 and 5) to constitution make first Monday in October the day for general elections.
Jacob Thompson, of Miss., becomes Secretary of the Interior. Delegates from eight States meet in convention at Vicksburg, to consider reopening of slave trade.
Whitworth Female College at Brookhaven is opened. _
Population, 791,305.
November 26. Legislature in special session to consider withdrawing Mississippi from Union. Convention is called.
January 7. Convention opens and two days later passes an ordinance of secession, 84 to 15. Is the second State to secede.
January 20. Confederate force seizes an unfinished fort on Ship Island.
January 21. Senator Jefferson Davis in the U. S. Senate announces Mississippi’s withdrawal from the Union.
February 9. Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States.