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Show 34 A map of this time shows Utah bounded on the north by Oregon Territory; on the iouth, by New Mexico Territory; on the west by California as it la today; and on the eaat by the 1 large territories of Nebraska and KanBas. The names of Nevada and Colorado do not appear, for they were as yet non- ealstent, both becoming territories in 1861 By the settlement of the eastern boundary of California along the ridge of the Sierra Nevada, Salt Lake became a part of Utah, and consequently was no longer the seat of a a California agenoy. On January 3, 1851, Brighara Young was appointed governor of Utah Territory, with the capital at Salt Lake; and, despite the advice cited of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning the undoairablllty of the two- fold office of governor and superintendent, Young was also made ex- offiolo superintendent of Indian affairs for the terra of four years. As governor he received fifteen hundred dollars a year, and as 3 superintendent one thousand. On February 27, 1851, 1 Paxaon, F. L., The Last American Frontier, p. 140. 3 Senate Journal, 31 Cong., 1 Sees., p. 35 ( 548). 3 Bancroft, H. H., History of Utah, p. 455. Utah Territory: Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, 1851. |