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On January 4, 1866, the eleventh session of the territorial legislature met at Omaha. The coun- cil was: T. L. Griffey, E. A. Allen, B. E. B. Ken- nedy, J. R. Porter, J. Albertson, J. S. Miller, J. W. Chapman, John Bennett, O. P. Mason, A. S. Holladay, O. P. Bayne, J. N. McCasland. The officers were: O. P. Mason, president; W. E. Harney, chief clerk; William W. Watson, assist- ant clerk; Charles Ulry, doorkeeper.
The house: Richardson county, L. Crounse, William Parchen, J. D. Ramsey, John Jay Hart; Pawnee county, John R. Butler; Nemaha county, W. B. Phelps, John Green, W. A. Pollock; Otoe county, John H. Maxon, James Thorn, M. S. Campbell, Albert Tuxbury, James A. Gilmore; Cass county, Joseph Arnold, W. F. Chapin, Sam- uel Maxwell, Benjamin Austin; Johnson county, James Robinson; Lancaster county, John Cad- man; Clay, Lancaster, Seward and Saunders counties, Marcus Brush; Sarpy county, T. H. Robertson, N. P. Lefler; Douglas county, G. B. Luke, J. W. Paddock, C. H. Brown, Fred Drexel, J. G. Megeath; Dodge county, J. G. Smith; Platte county, G. C. Barnum; Washington coun- ty, E. H. Clark, Charles Eisley ; Dakota county, Cornelius O'Connor; Dakota, Cedar, Dixon and L'eau Qui Court counties, R. H. Wilbur; Dakota, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, L. E. Jones. The officers were: James G. Mageath, speaker; George May, chief clerk; E. S. Towle, assistant
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clerk; Chester Lusk, sergeant-at-arms; Dennis Dugan, doorkeeper.
The preceding year had witnessed the close of the rebellion and the return of national peace, but the Indian war upon the western borders of Nebraska still continued when this legislature met. During the year 1865 the savages, embold- ened by temporary successes, had grown exceed- ingly reckless in their assaults upon settlers and upon the overland stages and telegraph lines. Outrages of the most atrocious character had been repeatedly perpetrated. It had become nec- essary to call upon congress for more stringent action for the suppression of this form of lawless- ness.
This year (1866) the laws of the territory were revised, arranged and issued in the form of re- vised statutes, the immense labor being completed in time for presentation early in the session and approved February 12, 1866. The new laws went into effect July 1.
On the 19th of April, 1864, an act of congress was approved by the president and became a law, enabling the people of Nebraska to form a state constitution and government, but the continu- ance of the war and the consequent disturbance of national affairs, united with the partial suspen- sion of emigration to the west and the Indian troubles on the frontier, united in rendering this permission undesirable. The territory had been drained of many men and much treasure in its generous assistance of the government during the years of its struggle for existence. With the re- turn of peace and the suppression of border out- lawry, however, came an awakening conscious- ness of the value of state institutions. The peo- ple once more turned their attention to the sub- ject and revived an interest in the enabling act.
The constitution was framed early in 1866, em- bodying these essential features:
Declaring equal inherent rights to all men, pro- hibiting slavery in the state, maintaining freedom of speech and press, establishing the right of pe- tition to the people, the justice of trial before the law, civil and religious liberty, the perpetuation of free government and the rights of the people, declaring the elective franchise belongs to "white" citizens, vesting the government of the state in the legislative, the executive and the ju- dicial branches and defining their powers and jurisdiction, providing for methods of revenue and limiting expenditures, describing the juris- diction of the state over the eminent domain, naming the boundaries of the state, and arrang- ing for the fundamental machinery of a state after the "manner and order usual in such mighty undertakings."
The constitution provided that it should be voted upon June 2, 1866. The legislature author- ized the submitting of the question and the elec- tion of state officers by an act approved by Gov- ernor Saunders February 9, 1866. At this elec- tion the constitution was adopted by the follow- 3 1/2
ing vote: For adoption, 3,938; against, 3,838. It was approved and signed by Governor Butler February 21, 1867.
NEBRASKA AS A STATE.
On March 1, 1867, the president issued his proc- lamation announcing the admission of Nebraska into the union, and on March 2nd Hon. T. M. Mar- quette presented his credentials in the house of representatives and consummated the bond.
On the 4th of April Governor Butler issued his call for an extra session, and on the 18th of May the legislators came together and set in motion the machinery of the state.
The constitution provided that the first session of the so-called state legislature should meet July 4, 1866, and in accordance therewith the members chosen at the preceding election assembled in Omaha in formal conclave on that day. The ros- ter of that body was: House-Richardson coun- ty, William Parchen, B. F. Cunningham, J. M. Deweese; J. T. Hoile ; Pawnee county, C. H. Gere ; Gage and Jones counties, N. Blakely ; Nemaha county, George W. Fairbrother, W. G. Glasgow, Daniel C. Sanders, W. A. Pollock; Johnson coun- ty, A. W. Gray ; Otoe county, E. S. Reed, A. Tux- bury, D. M. Anderson, James Thome, John Graves; Lancaster, Seward and Saunders coun- ties, James Queen ; Lancaster county, Ezra Tullis ; Cass county, S. Maxwell, W. F. Chapin, T. R. Bell, H. D. Hathaway; Sarpy county, T. H. Rob- ertson, J. D. Smith; Douglas county, P. O. Han- lon, A. J. Critchfield, J. W. Paddock, V. Burkley, W. A. Denton; Dodge county, George J. Turton ; Platte county, E. W. Arnold; Platte, Merrick, Hall and Buffalo counties, James E. Boyd; Wash- ington county, David McDonald, W. R. Hamil- ton; Burt and Cuming counties, G. P. Thomas; Dakota county, A. H. Baker; Dakota, Dixon, Ce- dar and L'eau Qui Court counties, R. H. Wilbur; Dixon, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, Kelly Frazier. Officers-W. A. Pollock, speaker; J. H. Brown, chief clerk; J. T. Davis, assistant clerk ; F. M. Dovington, sergeant-at-arms; E. A. Graves, doorkeeper.
Council-Nathan S. Porter, Frank Welch, James G. Megeath, M. C. Wilbur, David Leach, Vincent Krummer, Thomas K. Hann, John Cadman, S. H. Calhoun, Oliver Stevenson, S. M. Rich, F. D. Tis- dale, A. S. Stewart. Officers-F. Welch, presi- dent; C. E. Yost, chief clerk ; E. K. Valentine, as- sistant clerk; Wilson E. Majors, sergeant-at- arms; P. Judson, doorkeeper.
The following is the text of the proclamation issued by President Andrew Johnson, declaring Nebraska a state:
"Whereas, the Congress of the United States did hy an act approved on the 19th day of April, 1864, authorize the people of the Territory of Nebraska to form a constitution and state govern- ment and for the admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states upon certain conditions in said act specified, and,
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"Whereas, said people did adopt a constitution conforming to the provisions and conditions of said act and ask admission into the union, and,
"Whereas, the Congress of the United States did on the eighth and ninth days of February, 1867, in mode prescribed by the constitution, pass a further act for the admission of the State of Nebraska into the union, in which last-named act it was provided that it should not take effect ex- cept upon the fundamental condition that within the State of Nebraska there should be no denial of the elective franchise or of any other right to any person by reason of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed, and upon further fundamental condition that the legislature of said state, by a solemn public act, shall declare the assent of said state to the said fundamental condition, and should transmit to the President of the United States an authenticated copy of said act of the legislature of said state, upon receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, should forthwith announce the fact, whereupon the said founda- mental condition should be held as a part of the organic law of the state, and thereupon and with- out any further proceeding on the part of the Congress, the admission of said state into the union should be considered as complete; and,
"Whereas, within the time prescribed by said act of the Congress on the eighth and ninth days of February, 1867, the legislature of the State of Nebraska did pass an act ratifying the said act of Congress of the eighth and ninth days of Feb- ruary, 1867, and declaring that the aforenamed provisions of the third section of said last-named act of Congress should be a part of the organic law of the State of Nebraska; and,
"Whereas, a duly authenticated copy of said act of the legislature of the State of Nebraska has been received by me;
"Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, Presi- dent of the United States; do in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress last herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the fundamental conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Nebraska to entitle that state to ad- mission to the union have been ratified and ac- cepted, and that the admission of the said state into the union is now complete.
"In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washington this first day of March in the year of our Lord, 1867, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-first.
"By the President:
"Andrew Johnson.
"Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State."
The twelfth and last session of the territorial legislature met at Omaha January 10, 1867. The roster is here given :
Council-Barnabas Bates, J. D. Neleigh, G.W. Doan, W. Baumer, E. H. Rogers, F. K. Freeman,
Lawson Sheldon, James E. Doom, M. S. Reeves, W. W. Wardell, T. J. Majors, W. A. Presson and A. S. Stewart. Officers-E. H. Rogers, president ; O. B. Hewett, chief clerk; L. L. Holbrook, assist- ant clerk; E. A. Kirkpatrick, sergeant-at-arms; John Cadman, doorkeeper.
House-Pawnee county, John R. Butler; Rich- ardson county, G. Dnerfeldt, J. M. Deweese, Jos- eph T. Hoile; Nemaha county, George Crowe, William Daily, Lewis Waldter, C. F. Haywood; Otoe county, W. M. Hicklin, J. R. Graves, A. F. Harvey, D. M. Anderson; Cass county, D. Cole, W. F. Chapin, Isaac Wiles, A. B. Fuller; John- son county, A. W. Gray; Lancaster county, E. H. Hardenberger; Lancaster, Seward and Saunders counties, E. L. Clark; Sarpy county, George N. Crawford, A. W. Trumble; Douglas county, G. W. Frost, D. S. Parmelee, H. Link, S. M. Curran, E. P. Child; Dodge county, J. E. Dorsey ; Platte county, John E. Kelley; Washington county, L. J. Abbott, Amasa S. Warwick; Dakota county, Daniel Duggan; Platte, Merrick, Hall and Buffa- lo counties, John Wallichs; Gage and Jones coun- ties, Hugh M. Ross, Burt and Cuming counties, Martin Stuefer; Lincoln, Kearney, Saline and Butler counties, William Baker. Officers-W. F. Chapin, speaker; J. S. Bowen, chief clerk; W. S. Brewster, assistant clerk; J. M. Howard, ser- geant-at-arms.
The constituution provided that senators and representatives should be elected biennially on the second Tuesday in October, at which time the state officers were also to be chosen. This, how- ever, did not apply to the first set of officers des- ignated under the constitution, those named un- der what may be termed, for distinction here, the provincial officers. That first election was ordered by the constitution to take place June 2, 1866. Under this provision Hon. T. M. Marquette was elected representative in congress. The vote for treasurer (which may be taken as a fair estimate of the party lines) was 4,756 for the republican candidate to 4,161 for the democratic. In accord- ance with the requirements of the constitution, although the territory was still out of the union as a state, the first regular election was held on the second Tuesday in October. Then it was that Hon. John Taffe was elected to congress.
The new state began its existence
under the official guidance of David
Butler, governor ;
Thomas P. Kennard,
secretary of state; John Gillespie, aud- itor; Augustus Kountze, treasurer; Thomas P. Kennard, librarian ; Champion S. Chase, attorney general. The congressional representatives were: Senators, John M. Thayer and Thomas W. Tip- ton ; representative, John Taffe.
The so-called third session of the state legisla- ture (but in reality the first session) met at Oma- ha under proclamation of Governor Butler, May 16, 1867. The state comprised eleven senatorial districts, represented by the following named senators: First district, Harlan Baird; second
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district, J. T. Davis; third district, Isaac S. Has- call and J. N. H. Patrick; fourth district, E. H. Rogers; fifth district, F. K. Freeman; sixth dis- trict, Lawson Sheldon; seventh district, J. E. Doom; eighth district, W. W. Wardell and Mills S. Reeves; ninth district, Thomas J. Majors; tenth district, William A. Presson; eleventh dis- trict, Oscar Holden. Hon. E. H. Rogers, of Dodge county, was elected president; L. L. Hol- brook, secretary; Seth Robinson, assistant secre- tary; D. W. McKimmon, sergeant-at-arms; E. K. Caldwell, doorkeeper.
The house consisted of: Richardson county, J. T. Hoile, G. Duerfeldt, J. M. Deweese, T. J. Col- lins ; Pawnee county, J. R. Butler; Nemaha coun- ty, William Daly, George Crowe, Louis Waldter, C. F. Hagood; Otoe county, A. F. Harvey, W. H. Hicklin, John B. Bennett, George W. Sroat, D. M. Anderson ; Cass county, W. F. Chapin, D. Cole, A. B. Fuller, Isaac Wiles; Clay, Lancaster, Sew- ard and Saunders counties, E. L. Clark; Saline, Lincoln, Benton and Kearney counties, William Baker; Sarpy county, A. W. Trumble, George N. Crawford; Douglas county, G. W. Frost, J. M. Woolworth, Martin Dunham, Joel T. Griffin ; Platte county, John E. Kelley; Washington coun- ty, D. C. Slader, John A. Unthank; Burt and Cuming counties, Austin Rockwell; Dodge coun- ty, Henry Beebe; Dakota county, James Preston ; Johnson county, George P. Tucker; Dakota, Dixon, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, Hen- ry Morton; Gage and Jones counties, Oliver Townsend; Lancaster county, John Cadman.
Hon. W. F. Chapin, of Cass county, was elected speaker; J. S. Bowen, chief clerk; W. B. Smith, assistant clerk; D. Labor, sergeant-at-arms ; E. L. Clark, doorkeeper.
The specific purposes for which this extraor- dinary session was called was the enactment of laws and the amendment of existing statutes to harmonize with the new order of government.
The fourth session of the legislature was called for the purpose of making such provision as was essential under the constitution of the United States for the election of electors for president and vice president, this important duty having been unprovided for in previous sessions. The legislature met in Omaha, October 27 and 28, 1868, and on the last-named day passed a bill which was approved by Governor Butler, defin- ing the method of choosing electors.
The fifth session of the legislature (which is incorrectly called the "first regular session" on the title page of the journal) was the first to meet in Lincoln after the removal of the capital to that place. It was also the first session by operation of the constitutional law under the supreme or- dinance of 1866, the preceding sessions since the passage of the constitution having been either practically territorial legislatures, or "called" sessions of the state body, hence the designation as "first regular session."
The legislature met January 7, 1869. The
members of the senate were by districts as fol- lows: First, Richardson county, E. E. Cunning- ham; second, Nemaha, Charles J. Majors; third, Nemaha, Richardson and Johnson,
Gage, I. Reavis; fourth, Pawnee, Jef- ferson, Saline and Lancaster, C. H. Gere; fifth, Otoe, T. Ashton and
T. B. Stevenson ; sixth, Cass, H. D. Hathaway; seventh, Cass, Sarpy, Saunders, Butler and Seward, W. F. Cha- pin; eighth, Douglas, E. B. Taylor and G. W. Frost; ninth, Washington and Butler, William F. Goodwill; tenth, Platte, Merrick, Hall, Buffalo, Kearney and Lincoln, Guy C. Barnum. The sen- ate chose Hon. E. B. Taylor, of Douglas county, president ; S. M. Chapman, secretary ; J. R. Pat- rick, assistant secretary; W. H. Miller, engross- ing clerk; George Vandeventer, enrolling clerk; W. A. Pollock, sergeant-at-arms; John Bradshaw, doorkeeper.
The house was composed of : Richardson coun- ty, O. C. Jones, Delos A. Tisdel, J. E. Gardner, J. T. Hoile; Pawnee county, A. S. Stewart; Gage and Jefferson counties, Nathan Blakeley; John- son county, Hinman Rhodes; Nemaha county, J. S. Church, H. Steinman, George Crowe, G. R. Shook; Otoe county, James Fitchie, W. McLen- nan, A. F. McCartney, J. W. Talbot, A. Zimmer- er; Lancaster county, Ezra Tullis; Cass county, David McCaig, J. McF. Hagood, G. L. Seybolt, Joseph Mckinnon; Saunders, Seward and Butler counties, Marcus Brush; Saline, Lincoln and Kearney counties, J. S. Hunt; Sarpy county, J. N. Case and J. D. Smith; Douglas county, S. C. Brewster, Joseph Fox, J. B. Furay, J. T. Griffin, D. S. Parmelee and Edwin Loveland; Dodge county, E. H. Bernard; Platte county, C. A. Speice ; Hall, Buffalo and Merrick counties, Wells Brewer; Washington county, Christian Rathman and W. H. B. Stout; Burt and Cuming counties, Watson Parrish; Dakota county, John Naffziger; Dixon, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, C. B. Evans. The officers were: Hon. William McLennan, of Otoe county, speaker; John S. Bowen, chief clerk; C. H. Walker, assist- ant clerk; E. L. Clark, sergeant-at-arms; H. J. Mumford, doorkeeper; Jesse Turner, engrossing clerk; Abram Deyo, enrolling clerk.
The sixth session of the legislature was an ex- traordinary convention for twenty specific pur- poses, first among which was the ratification of the proposed fifteenth amendment to the constitu- tion of the United States. The measure of great- est state interest was the erection of a peniten- tiary, and the remaining objects of the session varied in importance from the incorporation of cities to the payment of the legislators.
On February 17, 1870, the legislature met at Lincoln. The new representatives were Samuel Carter, Leander W. Pattison, from Richardson county ; Hiram O. Minick, from Nemaha county ; Fordyce Roper, from Gage and Jefferson coun- ties, and C. A. Leary, from Douglas county. Speaker McLennan presided. The new members
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of the senate were: Second district, William Daily, Sr .; third district, Samuel A. Fulton and Eugene L. Reed.
Immediately after the close of the sixth session, the seventh session assembled at 8:30 p. m., March 4, 1870, on the order of Governor Butler, whose proclamation was issued during the day. The session was in fact but the continuance of the preceding session. The objects enumerated in the executive message were the necessity of a passage of a herd law, the ratification of a con- tract made by the governor for the conveyance of certain lands to Isaac Cahn and John M. Ev- ans to aid in the developmnets of the saline inter- ests of the state, and some local measures. The result of the session was not favorable to the de- sire of Governor Butler relative to his action in the saline land contract.
The eighth session of the legislature began January 5, 1871. The senate consisted of: First, Richardson county, E. E. Cunningham; second, Nemala county, E. W. Thomas; third, Nemaha, Richardson and Johnson counties, George P. Tucker; fourth, Pawnee, Gage, Jefferson, Saline and Lancaster counties, A. J. Cropsey ; fifth, Otoe county, David Brown and Robert Hawke; sixth, Cass county, Lawson Sheldon; seventh, Cass, Sarpy, Saunders, Seward and Butler coun- ties, Willett Pottinger, contested successfully by A. W. Kennedy, who sat during the latter part of the session; eighth, Douglas county, Frederick Metz and I. S. Hascall; ninth, Washington and Burt counties, B. F. Hilton; tenth, Dodge, Stan- ton, Cuming, Cedar, Dixon and L'eau Qui Court counties, A. W.Tennant, contested unsuccessfully by J. D. Neighley ; eleventh, Merrick, Hall, Buffa- lo, Kearney and Lincoln counties, Leander Ger- rard. Hon. E. E. Cunningham was elected presi- dent; C. H. Walker, secretary; C. M. Blaker, as- sistant secretary; A. T. McCarthy, engrossing clerk (Miss Cornelia Frost received two votes for this office, two less than Mr. McCarthy, the first instance of a woman being nominated for office in the Nebraska legislature) ; G. G. Beecher, en- rolling clerk; L. L. Kline; sergeant-at-arms; C. E. Hines, doorkeeper.
The house contained: Richardson county, H. W. Sommerland, James Wickham, Henry Schock, Ruel Nims; Nemaha county, William Daily, S. P. Majors, G. R. Shook, De Forest Porter; Pawnee county, G. W. Collins; Gage and Jefferson coun- ties, D. C. Jenkins; Johnson county, Hinman Rhodes; Otoe county, W. E. Dillon, J. E. Doom, Eugene Munn, John Oberton, J. W. Conger; Lan- caster county, S. B. Galey; Cass county, F. M. Wolcott, J. K. Cannon, J. M. Patterson, John Rouse; Saunders, Seward and Butler counties, A. Roberts; Saline, Lincoln and Kearney coun- ties, Isaac Goodin ; Sarpy county, E. N. Grin -. nell, Chas. Duby; Douglas county, John Ahman- son, T.F. Wall, J. C. Myers, E. Rosewater, W. M. Ryan, L. S. Reed; Dodge county, A. C. Briggs; Platte and Colfax counties, A. J. Hudson; Hall,
Buffalo and Merrick counties, Enos Beall; Wash- ington county, Elam Clark, H. C. Riordan; Burt and Cuming counties, Frank Kipp; Dakota coun- ty, James Clark; Dixon, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, D. J. Quimby. Officers-Hon. Geo. W. Collins, speaker; Louis E. Cropsey, chief clerk; J. R. Webster, assistant clerk; D. L. Sny- der, engrossing clerk; Charles Culbertson, ser- geant-at-arms; E. L. Clark, doorkeeper. By an irregularity in the journals, the election of Miss Cornelia Frost is not recorded, but that lady qualified as enrolling clerk, and so served.
On the 9th of January, 1872, in accordance with the order of adjournment, the legislature reassembled in what was known as the eighth ad- journed session.
The ninth session of the legislature convened January 9, 1873, with the following senate: First district, W. D. Scott; second, G. R. Shook; third, A. Bowen; fourth, E. W. Barnum; fifth, W. A. Gwyer and O. Wilson; sixth, L. W. Os- born; seventh, J. C. Crawford; eighth, S. W. Hayes; ninth, G. C. Barton; tenth, Job A. Dillon ; eleventh, S. B. Pound; twelfth, N. K. Greggs. Officers-Hon. W. A. Gwyer, of Omaha, presi- dent; D. H. Wheeler, secretary; L. S. Estell, as- sistant secretary; W. D. Wildman, sergeant-at- arms; S. L. Barrett, engrossing clerk; William Caffrey, enrolling clerk; C. E. Hine, doorkeeper.
The house consisted of: Richardson county, E. S. Towle, C. L. Metz, H. Holcomb; Nemaha county, C. Blodgett, C. W. Wheeler; Otoe county, J. H. Masters, J. W. Patrick, Logan Enyart, Paul Schminke; Cass county, J. W. Barnes, J. L. Brown; Pawnee county, A. H. Babcock; Johnson county, L. H. Laflin; Gage county, J. B. McDow- ell; Lancaster county, A. K. White, S. G. Owen ; Saunders county, W. H. Deck; Saline county, O. W. Baltzley; Jefferson, Nuckolls and Webster counties, Silas Garber; York, Polk, Butler, Platte, Hamilton, Clay and Adams counties, J. E. Cramer; Lancaster, Saunders, Gage, Jefferson and Pawnee counties, M. H. Sessions; Sarpy county, George S. Burtch; Douglas county, C. F. Goodman, W. R. Bartlett, J. L. Webster, M. Dun- ham, H. L. Dodge, E. G. Dudley; Washington county, Henry Sprick; Burt county, Austin Nel- son ; Dodge county, Milton May; Cuming and Wayne counties, R. F. Stevenson; Dakota and Dixon counties, R. H. Wilbur; Platte and Colfax counties, A. J. Arnold; Madison, Stanton, Pierce, Cedar and L'eau Qui Court counties, L. M. How- ard; Hall, Merrick, Greeley, Howard, Boone and Antelope counties, Ed Parker; Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, Washington and Dodge counties, Bruno Tzschuck. Officers-Hon. M. H. Sessions, speak- er; J. W. Eller, chief clerk; E. Chadwick, assist- ant clerk; U. B. Balcombe, enrolling clerk; J. F. Zediker, engrossing clerk; D. V. Stevenson, ser- genat-at-arms.
The tenth session was an extra one, beginning March 27, 1873, for the purpose of taking action
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on matters relating to the boundaries of certain counties and other legislation.
The eleventh session of the legislature began January 7, 1875. The senate roll stood: First district, T. C. Hoyt; second, J. B. Fisher; third, J. E. Lamaster; fourth, S. M. Chapman ; fifth, C. B. Rustin and J. S. Spaun; sixth, Waldo Lyon; seventh, Alexander Bear; eighth, H. D. Perky; ninth, Guy C. Barton; tenth, Rufus H. Abbott; eleventh, C. C. Burr; twelfth, N. K. Briggs. Officers-Hon N. K. Briggs, president ; D. H. Wheeler, secretary; C. L. Mather, assistant secretary ; George F. Work, engrossing clerk; J. W. Conger, enrolling clerk; Levi A. Stebbins, sergeant-at-arms; C. E. Hine, doorkeeper.
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