MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES: TERRITORIAL SECRETARY:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota
Historical Society
Government Records
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| Creator: |
Minnesota. Territorial
Secretary.
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| Title: | Records. |
| Dates: | 1849-1857. |
| Language: | Materials in English. |
| Abstract: | Miscellaneous records of the territorial secretary,
including bonds and oaths for notaries public, territorial officers, commissioners
of deeds, and county officers (1849-1857); letters from the U.S. Treasury Department
concerning the annual federal appropriation to Minnesota (1852-1857); documents
relating to internal improvements and business growth in the territory (1850-1857);
records concerning appointments (1849-1857) and finance, particularly expenditures
of the legislative assembly (1850-1856), territorial prison (1854), and territorial
librarian (1857); handwritten censuses of the territory (1849), Washington County
(1853), Stillwater (1853), and Wabasha County, with tax assessment roll (1852); and
the formal protest of the Dakota Chiefs repudiating the settlement of claims under
the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (photocopy; December 1852). A ledger also contains
accounting records of the secretary of state's office (post-1857). |
| Quantity: | 1.8 cubic feet (4 partial
boxes). |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf
locations. |
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here].
Minnesota. Territorial Secretary. Records. Minnesota Historical
Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Location of Originals:
The original of the Dakota Chiefs' 1852 protest is housed in the Minnesota
Historical Society's Reserve Collection (Reserve 15).
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: None; 984-67; 985-143
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001713244
Digitization by Jason Onerheim, January 2024.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| Location | |
| 115.I.19.9B | | Notarial Bonds and Oaths, 1849-1857. 16 folders. |
| | | Bonds and oaths of office for notaries public. |
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| Location | |
| 115.I.19.10F | | Notarial Bonds and Oaths, 1857-1858. 2 folders. |
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| | Bonds and Oaths, 1851-1857. 5 folders. |
| | | Bonds and oaths of office for territorial officers, commissioners of deeds,
and county officers, including justices of the peace, sheriffs, county
commissioners, coroners, district court clerks, and registers of deeds. |
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| | Letters Received, [U.S.] Treasury Department, 1852-1857. |
| | | Mainly concerns use of the annual federal legislative and capital building
appropriations, especially regarding legislative expenses, and printing and
publishing costs. |
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| | Miscellaneous Letters Received, 1851-1857. |
| | | Mainly requests for information and copies of laws. |
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| | Letters Sent (copies), 1849-1857. |
| | | They concern printing costs, including a request to the U.S. Commissioner of
Indian Affairs for a copy of the 1850 treaty with the Ojibwa. |
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| | Miscellaneous Documents, 1850-1857. |
| | | Assorted documents relating to internal improvements and business growth in
the territory, including articles of incorporation, deeds, ferry bonds, and
acts concerning territorial roads. Also a militia roll of assessor’s
district no. 1, Ramsey County (1853), the St. Peter Company’s bond to supply
a capital building in St. Peter (1857), and inventories of the secretary’s
office furnishings (1853, 1857). |
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| | Records Relating to Appointments, 1849-1857. |
| | | Petitions supporting justice of the peace candidates, resignations,
appointment announcements, and refilings of notaries’ official seals with
the secretary. |
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| | Legislative Accounts, undated and 1850-1856. 9 folders. |
| | | Accounts, abstracts, and vouchers covering Legislative Assembly
expenditures. |
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| | Miscellaneous Accounting Records, 1851-1857. |
| | | They cover surveying expenses, requests for session laws, expenditures at
Stillwater Prison (1854), and the territorial librarian’s account
(1857). |
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| | Census of Minnesota Territory, 1849. |
| | | A note included in the folder discusses discrepancies between this
handwritten copy and the printed census. |
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| | Census of Washington County, 1850. |
| | | Pencilled, handwritten copy. |
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| | Census of Stillwater, June 1853. |
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| Location | |
| Reserve 15 | | Protest of Dakota Chiefs and Accompanying Certifications, December 1852. |
| | | Formal protest addressed to the President of the United States, repudiating a
settlement of claims under the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and demanding a
scrutiny of claims. Apparently the territorial government’s official
copy. |
| | | Transcriptions are available in the Alexander Ramsey Papers, held in the MHS
manuscript collections, and in William Watts Folwell, A History of
Minnesota, Volume 1, page 464. |
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Digital version
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| Location | |
| 115.I.19.10F | | Protest of Dakota Chiefs and Accompanying Certifications, December 1852. |
| | | Public use photocopy. |
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| Location | |
| 108.J.13.7B-1 | | Requisitions, 1848-1858. 1 volume. |
| | | Letters to the U.S. Treasury Department requesting monies from the annual
federal appropriations for legislative expenses, particularly legislators’
compensation and mileage reimbursement. |
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| | Ledger, [U.S.] Treasury Department, 1849-1867. 1 partial volume. |
| | | Contains secretary and contingent funds and the accounts of individual
legislative assembly officers, members, and employees (1849-1853). The
volume also contains accounts of the Secretary of State’s office
(post-1857). |
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| 115.I.19.11B | | Wabasha County: Territorial Tax Assessment Roll and Census
Return, 1852. 1 folder. |
| | | Assessment roll includes names of persons taxed, residence, dollar valuation
of personal property, total valuation of all property, and amount of tax.
Census roll lists heads of families, residence, number of children (male or
female), and those men eligible for military duty. |
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:
- Business enterprises -- Minnesota.
- Commissioners of deeds -- Minnesota.
- County officials and employees -- Minnesota --
Registers.
- Dakota Indians -- Government relations --
1789-1860.
- Dakota Indians -- Treaties
- Government librarians -- Minnesota.
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations --
Minnesota.
- Notaries -- Minnesota.
- Prisons -- Minnesota -- Finance.
- Tax assessment -- Minnesota -- Wabasha
County.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota. Legislative Assembly --
Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States. Department of the
Treasury.
- Places:
- Minnesota -- Census, 1849.
- Minnesota -- Officials and employees --
Bonding.
- Minnesota -- Officials and employees --
Registers.
- Minnesota -- Politics and government --
1849-1858.
- Minnesota Territory.
- Stillwater (Minn.) -- Census, 1853.
- United States -- Appropriations and
expenditures.
- Wabasha County (Minn.) -- Census, 1852.
- Washington County (Minn.) -- Census, 1853.
- Document Types:
- Territorial records -- Minnesota.
- Titles:
- Traverse des Sioux, Treaty of,
1851.
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