Author: Michael Chiorazzi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136766014 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 706
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Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative. In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a varied list of source materials, including: state codes drafted by Congress county, state, and national archives journals and digests state and federal reports, citations, surveys, and studies books, manuscripts, papers, speeches, and theses town and city records and documents Web sites to help your search for more information and more Prestatehood Legal Materials provides you with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the United States. In this book, you will see how foreign countries controlled the laws of these territories and how these states eventually broke away to govern themselves. The text also covers the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexico and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. This guide focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Resources that assist in locating not-so-easily accessible materials are also covered. Special sections focus on the legal resources of colonial New York City and Washington, DC—which is still technically in its prestatehood stage. Due to the enormity of this project, the editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials created a Web page where updates, corrections, additions and more will be posted.
Author: Arizona Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230467566 Category : Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XCV. To provide for the Civil Expenses of the Territorial Government. Section 1. That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz.: For the salaries of the Territorial Treasurer, Territorial Auditor and Attorney-General, to be paid as provided by law, the sum of three thousand four hundred dollars ($3,400). For Territorial library, for paying freight, postage and extra shelving, seven hundred dollars, to be expended for the year A. D. 1871, and five hundred dollars to be expended during the year A. D. 1872, under the direction of the Territorial Librarian, the sum of one thousand and two hundred dollars ($1,200). For the distribution of public documents, proclamations of the Governor, the laws and journals of the legislative assembly, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary, in such sums as from time to time may be required, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100). For office rent for weights and measures, care and keeping of the same, and for sealing a set of weights and measures for each county in the Territory, and to be expended under the direction of the Territorial Treasurer, and to be paid quarterly, in equal proportions, as hereinafter provided for in this act, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500). For printing official documents and other necessary printing, and to be expended under the direction of the Territorial Auditor, and in equal proportions, for the years A. D. 1871 and 1872, the sum of three hundred dollars ($300). For the expenses of the Supreme Court, to be expended equally, for the years A. D. 1871 and 1872, under the direction of the chief justice of the Territory, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500). For rent of library room, and to be...
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