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NEBRASKA.  based on his principle of ‘squatter sovereignty.’ It was amended to provide for two Territories (see ), passed both Houses, and was signed by the President May 30th. By this act the boundaries of the Territory of Nebraska were defined as the 40th and 49th parallels of latitude, from the Missouri to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. In 1861 all the region north of the 43d parallel was constituted part of Dakota Territory, a small part from the southwest corner was added to Colorado, and the western boundary was extended to the 110th meridian. With the creation of Idaho Territory in 1803, the State was reduced to its present limits except for a slight addition in the northwest in 1882.

The question of Statehood came up with the organization of the Territory. In 1860 the people voted down a proposal to call a constitutional convention. Congress passed an enabling act in 1864, but not until 1866 was a constitution adopted. The act of admission passed by Congress July 18th was not signed by the President. In February, 1867, he again vetoed a similar bill, but it was passed over the veto, and on March 1st the State was admitted. The history of the Territory and State has been one of peaceful development, though during the Civil War the Indians were restless, and in August, 1864, a notable rising occurred.

Politically Nebraska has been Republican in national elections, with the exception of the year 1896, when it was carried by the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan, a resident of the State. The following is a list of the Governors of the State, with their party affiliations:

. Hale, Kansas and Nebraska (Boston, 1854); Butler, Nebraska, Its Characteristics and Prospects (Burlington, 1873); Curley, Nebraska: Its Advantages, Resources and Drawbacks (New York, 1875); Pound and Clements, The Phytogeography of Nebraska, vol. i. (Lincoln, 1898); Johnson, History of Nebraska (Omaha, 1880); Barrett, History and Government of Nebraska (Lincoln, 1891); id., Nebraska and the Nation (Chicago, 1898); True, History and Civil Government of Nebraska (Fremont, 1892); Connelly, Provisional Government, Nebraska Territory (Lincoln, 1899); Nebraska Historical Society, Transactions and Reports (Lincoln, 1885-93); Proceedings and Collections (Lincoln, 1894-1902).  NEBRASKA. A river of Nebraska. See .  NEBRASKA, University of. A co-educational State university at Lincoln, Neb., founded in 1869. It comprises the Graduate School; the College of Literature, Science, and Arts; the Industrial College; the College of Law; the College of Medicine; the School of Fine Arts; and the Affiliated School of Music. There is also a summer session. The regents have intrusted to its charge the United States agricultural experiment station, the State Museum, the Botanical and Geological Surveys, and the superintendency of farmers' institutes. Students are admitted on examination or on certificates from accredited schools. Military drill is compulsory for first and second year male students in the college, and physical training for all first and second year woman students. The students in 1903 numbered 2500, and the faculty consisted of 180 professors and instructors. The library contains 51,000 volumes, supplemented by eleven departmental libraries, including the departments of pure and applied sciences, law, and classical philology. The campus occupies twelve acres in the heart of Lincoln, and with the buildings is valued at $1,000,000. The endowment lands of the university were in all 136,080 acres, of which about 11,000 acres remain unsold. The principal accruing from former sales is paid into the permanent endowment funds. The income of the university for all purposes amounted in 1903 to $402,000.  NEBRASKA CITY. A city and the county-seat of Otoe County, Neb., 56 miles south of Omaha; on the Missouri River, here spanned by a fine steel railroad bridge, and on the Burlington and Missouri River (Burlington Route) and the Missouri Pacific railroads (Map:, J 3). It has a United States Government building, the State Institute for the Blind, and a public library. The city is the centre of a noted fruit belt, also of a rich corn region. The principal industrial plants include large stock yards, grain elevators, cereal and flour mills, lumber and planing mills, foundries, press drill works, a starch factory, packing and provision house, plow works, breweries, brick works, a distillery, a cannery, and a cold storage plant. Laid out and settled in 1855 on the site of old Fort Kearney, Nebraska City was incorporated as a city of the second class in 1871. Twenty years later it received a charter of the first class, under the provisions of which it is governed by a mayor, chosen every two years, and a unicameral council, one-half of the members being elected by wards and the other half at large. Population, in 1890, 11,941; in 1900, 7380.  NEBUCHADNEZZAR,, or, more correctly, NEBUCHADREZZAR (Heb., from Babylonian Nabu-kudǔrri-uṣur, Nabu [Nebo] protect the boundary). The great King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who ruled c.604-561 He was the second of the name, Nebuchadnezzar I. having been a distinguished Babylonian monarch of the second half of the twelfth century He was the son of Nabopolassar, Viceroy of Assyria in Babylonia, who upon the death of Asshurbanipal ( 624) gained control of the