Index:Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona.djvu

Title Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona
Year 1865
Publisher Office of the Arizona Miner
Location Prescott
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Cover and Front Matter

Acts

Resolutions

Memorials

Back Matter and Cover

Order of Acts.




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1. Authorizing the Appointment of a Commissioner to report a Code of Laws 19
2. For the Benefit of John G. Capron 19
3. Declaring Certain Routes as a County Road in the Territory of Arizona 20
4. For the benefit of Elliott Coues 20
5. Empowering the Governor to Appoint a Commissioner to Draft a Map of the Territory 20
6. To Incorporate the Arizona Central Road Company 21
7. Granting the Exclusive Right to Samuel Todd and his Associates and Successors, to maintain and keep a Ferry across the Colorado River at Mojave 24
8. Incorporating the Castle Dome Railroad Company 25
9. To Incorporate the Tucson, Poso Verde, and Libertad Road Company 27
10. To Incorporate the Santa Maria Wagon Road Company 30
11. To Incorporate the Mojave and Prescott Toll-Road Company 32
12. To Provide for Stay of Legal Proceedings on Foreign Indebtedness 35
13. Granting the Exclusive Right to William D. Bradshaw and his Associates to maintain and keep a Ferry across the Colorado River at La Paz 36
14. To Incorporate the Hualapai Mining, Smelting, and Assaying Company 37
15. To Authorize the Secretary of the Territory to appoint an Assistant 39
16. Concerning Grants and Deeds for Lands 39
17. To Authorize Probate Judges to appoint a Term of Court for Civil Business 40
18. To Incorporate the Arizona Historical Society 40
19. To Appropriate Money for the Aid of Public Schools 41
20. To Divorce Mary Catharine Mounce from the Bonds of Matrimony 42
21. Authorizing a Loan on the Faith and Credit of the Territory to Inaugurate and Pay the Expenses of a Campaign against the Apache Indians 42
22. Authorizing the Raising of Rangers 45
23. Relating to Interest 46
24. In Regard to County Recorders 46
25. Of Money of Account 47
26. Authorizing Certain Officers to exercise the Powers of Notaries Public 47
27. Concerning Possessory Rights in Public Lands 47
28. In Regard to Printing 48
29. Allowing Persons in the Military Service to Vote at Elections 48
30. Allowing Persons in the Military Service of the United States and of this Territory to hold Mining Claims 49
31. Creating a Seal for the Territory of Arizona 50
32. Relating to the Publication of Legal Notices 50
33. To Provide for the Payment of Certain Expenses incurred in the late Indian Campaign under Lieut.-Colonel King S. Woolsey 51
34. To Incorporate the Arizona Railway Company 51
35. Incorporating the Prescott, Walnut Grove, and Pima Road Company 53
36. To Provide for the Contingent Expenses of the Territorial Government 56
37. Amendatory to Chapter Fifty-Seven of the Code, entitled “Of Fees of Officers” 57
38. Declaring the Time when Chapter Fifty-Nine of the Code, entitled “Of the Prohibition of Gambling,” shall take effect 57
39. To Incorporate the Prescott and Fort Wingate Road Company 57
40. To Provide for the Civil Expenses of the Territorial Government 60




Order of Resolutions.

1. Providing Payment for Enrolling Bills 63
2. To Purchase Books for the Territorial Library 63
3. Instructions to the Honorable Charles D. Poston, concerning Arms and Mail Routes with Postal Service 64
4. Instructing the Honorable Charles D. Poston to urge the Congress of the United States to appoint Commissioners to Survey and Establish the Boundary Line between Nevada, Utah, and Colorado Territories and Arizona 64
5. Relative to the Territorial Arms and Ammunition 65
6. Authorizing the Governor to sell the Territorial Arms 65
7. Providing Additional Compensation for the Secretary of the Council, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and their Assistants 66
8. Appointing a Translator and Interpreter, who shall act as a Commissioner to publish the Laws required to be published in the Spanish language 66
9. To give effect to Chapter Twenty-three of the Code, entitled “Of Education” 66
10. Providing for Printing the Lectures of the Honorable W. Claude Jones, on the Resources of Arizona 67
11. Empowering the Governor of the Territory to make Necessary Corrections in the Phraseology and Wording of the Code of Laws 67
12. Relative to Publishing a Compendium of the Laws of the Territory in Spanish 67
13. Tendering Thanks to the Honorable Charles D. Poston, Superintendent of Indian Affairs 68
14. Tendering Thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel Nelson H. Davis, Inspector-General of the Department of New Mexico 68
15. Tendering Thanks to His Excellency John N. Goodwin, Governor of the Territory 69
16. Tendering Thanks to the Honorable Richard C. McCormick, Secretary of the Territory 69
17. Tendering Thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel King S. Woolsey and his Men 69
18. Tendering Thanks to Captain T. T. Tidball, Fifth Infantry, California Volunteers 70
19. Relative to Sylvester Mowry 70
20. Tendering Thanks to the Honorable William T. Howell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Commissioner to Report a Code of Laws; also Providing that said Code shall, in respect to the Author thereof be known as “The Howell Code” 71
21. Empowering the Governor of the Territory to change certain Bills 71




Order of Memorials.


1. Asking that the Tract of Land in the Bend of the Colorado River opposite Fort Yuma be attached to the Territory of Arizona 75
2. Asking an Increase per diem for Members of the Legislative Assembly, and an Increase of the Salaries of the Territorial Officers 76
3. Asking an Appropriation of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars for placing Indians of the Colorado on a Reservation 77
4. Asking an Appropriation of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars in aid of the War against the Apaches 78
5. Asking an Appropriation of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Colorado River 79