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Civil Procedure and Courts

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 372 Collections and/or Records:

Mark W. Cannon papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3936
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material documenting Mark Cannon's career in political science, including his service as assistant to Chief Justice Warren Burger and his involvement in the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, as well as with the Institute of Public Administration and the Supreme Court in general. This includes political research and correspondence, addresses and articles (written by Cannon or others), accounts of political travels, Bicentennial...
Dates: 1960-2006
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Woodrow Wilson certificates of appointment

 Collection
Identifier: Vault MSS 419
Scope and Contents

Printed, handwritten, and signed certificates of appointment. Wilson appoints Holden C. Richardson as "a Member of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" in 1915. The item is signed by Wilson and William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state. Wilson appoints Duncan LaMont as postmaster at Colorado City, Colorado in 1916. The item is signed by Wilson and Albert S. Burleson, postmaster general.

Dates: 1915-1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Challenge to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306588]
Identifier: MSS SC 869
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a list of demands made by a group of Indian activists to the Mormon Church. It charges that the Mormon missionary efforts among the Indians is an attempt to "brainwash" and is aimed at "destroying" the Indian "culture and heritage." Its demands include composing the Mormon Church "Board" of 76% Indians so that matters relating to the Indians would be resolved favorably to them. Also demanded was the payment of one million dollars annually to the Indians for the...
Dates: 1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Chenango County, New York court records

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227605497]
Identifier: MSS 4077
Scope and Contents

Collection includes photocopies of court records created by judge Albert Neely in 1826. Includes documents related to the trial of Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1826
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biographical sketch of Washburn Chipman

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332832]
Identifier: MSS SC 3291
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Sadie Chipman writes about her father, Washburn Chipman. Washburn was born in Canada in 1829 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. He moved near Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847. He later settled in American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1926

Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Choteau family legal documents

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309970]
Identifier: MSS SC 1223
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed legal documents involving the Choteau family. Included are summonses, financial notes, deeds, certificates, indentures, and writs all written at St. Louis, Mo. Several of the items are French translations of the original English documents. Members of the Choteau family mentioned in the items are Auguste, Pierre, Henry, and Gabriel S.

Dates: 1805-1829
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Auguste Chouteau legal documents

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286787]
Identifier: Vault MSS 142
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and siged legal documents dated 11 and 30 June 1810. The materials include two summonses in cases by the city of St. Louis against Francis Waddell and John Reed for selling goods in the city without the payment of taxes. Also included is a statement of indebtedness.

Dates: 1810
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Pierre Chouteau statement

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286746]
Identifier: Vault MSS 138
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed statement dated 14 July 1817 (1 page). The item was presented in the circuit court meeting in Saint Clair County, Illinois. Chouteau states he needs to secure Auguste Chouteau as a witness to affirm that a Black man was delivered as claimed.

Dates: 1817 July 14
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Church papers, approximately 1917-1967

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1993 Series 1
Scope and Contents This series contains Richards' correspondence and other papers with prominent LDS Church leaders including Heber J. Grant, Joseph F. Smith, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., John A. Widtsoe, David O. MacKay, and Stephen L. Richards. This series spans from circa 1917 to 1967. It icludes two letters, 1938 and 1951, two Title Insurance and Trust Company documents, dated 1949, 1951, correspondence between Preston Richards and J. Reuben Clark, Jr., circa 1917-1949, and correspondence, mostly legal...
Dates: approximately 1917-1967
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Preston D. Richards papers

Circuit Court injunction for Joseph Smith, Jr.

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289732]
Identifier: Vault MSS 416
Scope and Contents

Printed and handwitten injunction dated March 10, 1843, signed by Jacob B. Backenstos The item is addressed to Joseph Smith, mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, demanding a halt in further proceedings in the case of Charles R. Dana vs. William B. Brink. The action had been taken to recover $99.

Dates: 1843 March 10
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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