POLITICAL DATA

In Relation to the Territorial Government, Constitution, and the

State Government of Nevada

The first public meeting, in what is now Nevada, of which any record. was kept, was held at "Mormon Station" (now Genoa), November 12, 1851. The object of this meeting was to organize a squatter government, and to adopt local rules for the government of the settlers and their property. The meeting agreed upon a petition to the National Congress for a Territorial Government. A second meeting was held November 19th, same year, and the next day a local form of government was adopted.

Carson County, Utah, was organized by the following Act:

An Act defining the boundaries of Carson County, and providing
for the organization thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That all that portion of the country bounded north by Desert County, east by the parallel of longitude 118°, south by the boundary line of this Territory, and west by California, is hereby included within the limits of Carson County, and until organized is attached to Millard County for election, revenue and judicial purposes.

SEC. 2. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint a Probate Judge for said county, when he shall deem it expedient, and said Probate Judge, when appointed, shall proceed to organize said county, by dividing the county into precincts and causing an election to be held according to law, to fill the various county and precinct offices, and locate the county-seat thereof.

W. RICHARDS, President of the Council.

J. M. GRANT,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BRIGHAM YOUNG,

Governor of Utah Territory.

Approved January 17, 1854.

SEAL

TERRITORY OF UTAH,

SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

I, Elijah Sells, Secretary of Utah Territory, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy.

Witness my hand and the Great Seal of the Territory this *22d day of October, 1892.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secretary of Utah Territory.

REPORT-1909-1910-SECRETARY OF STATE

This embraced all of Washoe, Douglas, Lyon, Ormsby and Storey Counties, the greater part of Esmeralda and Churchill Counties, and at portion of Humboldt.

The first attempt at representation at Washington was made by electing James W. Crane as a delegate to represent the claims of the settlers to a Territorial Government. elected his successor November 12, 1859. Crane having died, John J. Musser was

On June 6, 1859, a mass meeting of delegates from the several districts was held, at which the 14th day of July, 1859, was fixed for holding an election for the purpose of electing delegates to a constitutional convention. Delegates so elected met at Genoa on the 18th day of the same month, and in a ten days' session adopted a declaration of rights and a constitution.

This constitution was submitted to the people September 1, 1859. The constitution was adopted, and Isaac Roop elected Governor, with a Legislature and other state officers. Roop was the only officer who attempted to qualify.

The Legislature met at Genoa on the 15th day of December, 1859, and adjourned to meet in July, 1860. They never met again.

John Cradlebaugh, one of the United States District Judges for Utah Territory, arrived at Genoa in the summer of 1859, and impaneled the first grand jury that ever met in what is now the State of Nevada.

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT

The Territory of Nevada was organized by an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to organize the Territory of Nevada, approved March 2, 1861.

In pursuance of this Act, James W. Nye of New York was appointed and commissioned Governor of Nevada Territory by President Lincoln March 22, 1861.

Governor Nye arrived in Carson July 8, 1861, and on the 11th day of that month issued a proclamation declaring the Territorial Government organized.

The population, as shown by a census taken by Henry DeGroot, July, 1861, was 16,347. The following officers constituted the Territorial Government: J. W. Nye, Governor; Orion Clemens, Territorial Secretary; Benj. B. Bunker, Attorney-General; John T. Lockhart, Indian Agent; Perry G. Childs, Territorial Auditor; J. H. Kinkead, Treasurer; John W. North, Surveyor-General; Butler Ives, Deputy SurveyorGeneral; John F. Kidder and Julius E. Garret, Surveyor-General's Clerks; S. C. Gallagher, Governor's Private Secretary; John Cradlebaugh, Delegate in Congress; George Turner, Chief Justice Supreme Court; Horatio N. Jones, Associate Justice; Gordon N. Mott, Associate Justice, and J. McC. Reardon, Clerk.

The District Courts were organized as follows: don N. Mott, Judge; David M. Hanson, Clerk; Dighton Carson, District First District: GorAttorney. Second District: George Turner, Judge; Alfred Helm, Clerk; Marcus D. Larrowe, District Attorney. Third District: Horatio N. Jones, Judge; Alfred James, Clerk; E. B. Zabriskie, District Attorney.

The following were appointed Probate Judges: Chauncey Noteware. Douglas County; A. W. Oliver, Humboldt County; William Haydon,

Lyon County; E. C. Dixon, Ormsby County; L. W. Ferris, Storey County.

Members of the First Territorial Council were: J. W. Pugle, Ira M, Luther, W. M. Stewart, John W. Grier, Thomas Hannah, A. W. Pray. J. L. Van Bokkelen, Solomon Geller, Isaac Roop. The officers of the Council were: J. C. Van Bokkelen, President; Henry O. Smeathmen, Secretary, and W. H. Barstow, Assistant Secretary; Noah T. Carpenter, Sergeant-at-Arms; P. H. Shannon, Messenger, and Henry Lewis, Page.

Members of the Assembly were: William Teall, Samuel Youngs, James McLean, William P. Harrington, Jr., John D. Winters, Wm. L. Card, R. M. Ford, John H. Mills, Mark H. Bryan, Ephraim Durham, Miles N. Mitchell, Edward C. Ing, James H. Sturtevant, William J. Osborn, John C. Wright. The officers of the Assembly were: Miles N. Mitchell, Speaker; William Martin Gillespie, Clerk; Samuel E. Wetherell, Assistant Clerk; J. B. McCormack, Sergeant-at-Arms; Charles C. Conger, Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms; C. S. Piersen, Messenger; Robert T. Haslan, Page.

The Territorial Legislature of 1862 passed an Act entitled "An Act to frame a Constitution and State Government for the State of Washoe, which was approved December 20, 1862, providing for an election on the first Wednesday in September, 1863, at which election the question of State Government or no State Government was submitted at the same time delegates were voted for as members of the convention. At this election the vote showed a popular demand for statehood, and elected the following citizens as members of a convenvention: