Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah [AND] Laws of the Territory of Utah [1861-1892] (9 volume set)
Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah [AND] Laws of the Territory of Utah [1861-1892] (9 volume set)
Utah Territory
Salt Lake City: Elias Smith; Geo. Q. Cannon; Joseph Bull; John W. Pike; T.E. Taylor; Tribune Printing and Publishing; Press of The Irrigation Age, 1861
[The Laws of Utah, as a territory and state] 9 volumes. Various bindings, some in contemporary leather, most in later buckram. Library stamps and markings.
Includes: 1. Acts... of the Territory of Utah, 11th annual session, 1861-1862; 2. Sixteenth Session, 1867; 3. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Sessions, 1867-1870; 4. Eighteenth, 1869; 5. Nineteenth, 1870; 6. Twenty-third, 1878; 7. Laws of the Territory of Utah, Twenty-Fourth, 1880; 8. Twenty-Seventh, 1886; 9. Thirtieth Session, 1892. <br> The Sixteenth Session, 1867 is Nathan J. Harris's signed copy. Nathan J. Harris (1864-1936), early Utah lawyer and district judge, served as member of the first legislature of the State of Utah.
Acts...1867-1870 is inscribed by George A. Black, Secretary Utah Territory. Black served as Acting Governor of Utah in 1871.
1892 volume includes a section (newly) banning polygamy. Utah bannd polygamy as requirement of statehood.
An interesting collection of the laws of Utah during the 19th century.