MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES: TERRITORIAL LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY:
An Inventory of Its Joint Committee Reports and Miscellaneous Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Legislative Assembly. | |
| Title: | Joint Committee Reports and Miscellaneous Records. | |
| Dates: | 1849-1857. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Reports of the joint committees on enrolled bills, judiciary, and selected individual bills (1849-1856) and a territorial road from Reeds Landing to the Minnesota River (1852), messages from the governor (1849-1857), territorial officers' reports (1850-1857), printed rules (1849-1856) and memorials (1856), memorial from the Nebraska Legislative Assembly (1857), blank forms (1855-1856), handwritten lists of House and Council bills (1857), and petitions (1849, 1851-1857). The latter deal mainly with internal improvements, such as roads, ferries, dams, and village sites, and with divorces, county division and/or organization, charters for private academies and schools, and territorial prohibition of liquor (1851, 1853). | |
| Quantity: | 0.8 cubic feet (1 box and 1 partial box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Legislative Assembly. Joint Committee Reports and Miscellaneous Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: None; 1802E; 985-143
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001713257
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 115.I.19.12F | Joint Committee Reports, undated and 1849-1856. 5 folders. | ||||||||||
| Enrolled Bills, undated and 1851-1852, 1856. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Mainly forms reporting enrolled bills to the governor. | |||||||||||
| Joint Judiciary Committee, 1851-1853. | |||||||||||
| Includes a report of the joint committee on public buildings (1853). | |||||||||||
| Conference Committees, 1849, 1851-1852. | |||||||||||
| Mainly committees appointed to review individual bills. | |||||||||||
| Messages from the Governor, 1849-1857. | |||||||||||
| May contain either or both manuscript and printed versions. Includes Governor Ramsey’s message pertaining to a grievance received from the half-breeds of Pembina, and French and English versions of the grievance itself (1849); English, German, and French copies of Governor Medary’s message to the 7th Legislative Assembly (1856); and a printed copy of this message in combination with the University of Minnesota board of regents’ report (1856). | |||||||||||
| Reports from Territorial Officers, 1850-1858. | |||||||||||
| Includes handwritten and printed reports from the territorial librarian, district surveyors general, warden, superintendent of common schools, University of Minnesota board of regents, treasurer, auditor, and adjutant general. | |||||||||||
| Rules (printed), 1849-1856. | |||||||||||
| Original and photocopy; cover governance of the House and joint rules for the House and Council. | |||||||||||
| Blank Forms, 1855-1856. | |||||||||||
| For printing orders, members’ per diem salary and mileage reimbursements, and reports of engrossed and enrolled bills. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Bills and Fragments, [1857?]-[1858?]. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Unidentified; appear to be undated bills and fragments of bills, memorials, or resolutions of the House. Many deal with specific railroads. | |||||||||||
| Memorials (printed), 1856. | |||||||||||
| Memorials passed by the Legislative Assembly and approved by the governor. | |||||||||||
| Memorial from Nebraska Legislative Assembly, February 1857. | |||||||||||
| A request that the Minnesota Legislative Assembly vote against the giving of any land bordering on the Missouri River to Iowa, if and when Minnesota achieved statehood. | |||||||||||
| Petitions, 1849, 1851-1857. 12 folders. | |||||||||||
| Manuscript petitions, mainly concerning internal improvements, particularly ferries, roads, dams, boomsites, and new villages. Also numerous petitions dealing with divorces, county seat locations, public printing contracts, mail routes, academies’ and schools’ charters, and for and against the division of old counties and the organization of new counties. Petitions of particular interest include a series in 1851 and 1852 requesting the prohibition of intoxicating liquors, including two signed by Traverse des Sioux Dakota; a petition of divorce between Joseph Renville and his Dakota wife, Tah-hugh-pee (1852); a request to incorporate a Territorial Immigration Society (1855); and a series of printed petitions supporting the Minnesota and Northwestern Railway Company (1855), against the division of Scott County (1856), and concerning the removal of the territorial Capitol to either Nicollet Island or St. Peter (1857). | |||||||||||
| Lists of House and Council Bills, Extra Session, 1857. | |||||||||||
| Handwritten. | |||||||||||
| 115.I.19.11B | Territorial Road from Reeds Landing (Wabasha County) to Some Point on the Minnesota River – Memoranda of Proceedings of Appointed Commissioners, 1852. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| Brief account of commissioners’ activities and description of the road, with a list of expenses incurred by the commission. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Bills, Legislative -- Minnesota -- Registers.
- Cities and towns -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Minnesota.
- County government -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Dams -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Ferries -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Legislative conference committees -- Minnesota.
- Liquor laws -- Minnesota.
- Private schools -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Prohibition -- Minnesota.
- Roads -- Minnesota -- Location.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota. Legislative Assembly -- Conference committees.
- Nebraska. Legislative Assembly.
- Places:
- Minnesota -- Officials and employees.
- Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1849-1858.
- Minnesota Territory.
- Document Types:
- Bills (legislative records) -- Minnesota.
- Forms -- Minnesota.
- Petitions -- Minnesota.
- Territorial records -- Minnesota.
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