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| Title | (1849-1851) The State of Deseret - Appendix: Constitution and Ordinances (1849-1851) |
| Subject | Law; Legislation--Utah |
| Description | (1849-1851) Collected by Dale L. Morgan, these were published as an appendix to The State of Deseret, 8 Utah Hist. Q. 155-233 (1940), and later reprinted in THE STATE OF DESERET (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press with the Utah Historical Society, 1987). In 1849 a constitution was drafted for a provisional government organized under the name "State of Deseret." Its legislature met on several occasions from July 2, 1849 until March 28, 1851, when it was dissolved upon announcement of the federal act to establish a territorial government (the "Organic Act"). |
| Publisher | Utah State Historical Society |
| Contributors | Morgan, Dale R. |
| Date | 1947 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications | Photocopies scanned with an Epson Expression 1640 XL flatbed scanner and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF's. Display JPEG's created in PhotoshopCS at 800 x 1125 ppi. |
| Source | Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 8 Numbers 23-24 |
| Language | eng |
| Rights Management | Digital image copyright 2005, S.J. Quinney College of Law. All rights reserved. |
| Holding Institution | S.J. Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah, South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730. |
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| Title | page 190 |
| OCR Text | Uran 190 HisToricAL QUARTERLY buryIsland and Antelope Island are hereby reserved and appro priated for the exclusive use and benefit of said Company for the keeping of stock AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ORGANIZATION OF DAVIS COUNTY Passed by the General Assembly October 1850 Sec Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret That all that portion of country included in the following boundaries to wit beginning at the Hot Springs and running thence west to the River Jordan then down said river eight miles thence west to the Great Salt Lake and lying south of the dividing ridge from the mountains on the east across the desert west and south of the Weber River to the Great Salt Lake be hereafter known by the name of Davis county Sec The Marshall of the State under the direction of the Executive is hereby authorized to organize said county Sec All officers appointed or elected under this organiza tion shall hold their offices until superceded by an election held in2 plursuance of the ordinance regulating elections passed Nov 12 1849 Approved Oct 1850 Brigham Young Governor GOVERNORMESSAGE Deseret December 1850 TO THE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES THE STATE OF DESERET OF GENTLEMEN -Again have our duties brought us together in the capacity oflegislature for the purpose of establishing gov ernment and prescribing laws and regulations which shall prove adequate to the wants and necessities of the people It is usual upon occasions like this to lay before the law making department full and concise report of the situation of affairs pertaining to the government as well as to make such sug gestions and tecommendg such measures as in the opinion of the executive will prove the most advantageous to the body politic purpose so to do so far asshall have the ability and the means within my reach reserving unto myself the privilege of completing any report as circumstances shall dictate or require Reprinted from The Deseret News October 19 1850 |
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| Source | Original Journal: Utah Historical Quarterly The State of Deseret |
| Setname | uu_law_uschs |
| ID | 719678 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw1mpz/719678 |