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Box 14

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Bill organizing territorial governments, 1849 December 31

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Proposed bill organizing Territorial governments for California, Deseret, & New Mexico, and "to enable the people of Jacinto, with the consent of the State of Texas, to form a constitution and state government," dated December 31, 1849.

Dates: 1849 December 31

An extract of the act to establish a territorial government for Utah, 1852

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Extract states that the governor shall have a census taken before the first election. Also includes newspaper clipping, "The Mormons in Utah," advocating the federal government leaving Utah alone to govern herself, dated 1852.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1852

An act for the admission of the State of Deseret into the Union, date of production not identified

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Declaration saying that admission of the State of Deseret into the Union will not take effect unless polygamy is outlawed in the state. Date of production not identified.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified