Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Begun and Held at Great Salt Lake City, on the 22nd Day of September, A.D., 1851. Also the Constitution of the United States and the Act Organizing the Territory of Utah
Salt Lake City: Brigham H. Young, Printer, 1852. 258pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Better than very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Item #7602
This is the first printed volume of Utah territorial laws. With Brigham Young as governor and the Legislative Assembly totally Mormon, the laws passed were in accordance to church values. Probate courts were very important. "The Laws of the first Legislative Assembly of Utah can be had by the civil officers of Great Salt Lake County, by calling at the Secretary's office. Members and officers of the Assembly will be further notified as fast as the books are bound." - Deseret News (9/4/1852). Flake/Draper 9384c. Crawley 714. McMurtrie 15.
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