Category: History - American

The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc.

Cession of Louisiana Province and Territorial purchase from Mexico--expedition of Coronado--United States expedition to examine Louisiana Province--brief history of Kansas to 1861--first discovery of Gold--trains of prospectors--first settlements in Colorado--early attempts to...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

Cession of Louisiana Province and Territorial purchase from Mexico--expedition of Coronado--United States expedition to examine Louisiana Province--brief history of Kansas to 18...

2. CHAPTER II.--ORGANIC ACT.

3. CHAPTER III.

Provisional government ends--federal officers arrive--Territorial government established--events of 1862--events of 1863--events of 1864--Indians punished by Col. Chivington--re...

4. CHAPTER IV.--ENABLING ACT.

Power to organize a State government--boundaries--suffrage--Constitutional Convention--Constitution to be submitted to the people and President to admit the State by proclamatio...

5. CHAPTER V.--CONSTITUTION.

Preamble--bill of rights--distribution of powers--Executive Department--Lieutenant-Governor--legislative department--judicial department--suffrage and elections--State instituti...

6. CHAPTER I.

On April 3d of the year 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, for the sum of $16,000,000, ceded to the United States, then under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson,...

7. CHAPTER II.

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That all that part of the territory of the United States includ...

8. CHAPTER III.

In 1861 the Kansas officials had disappeared. The Provisional government continued to exercise its partially acknowledged authority until the arrival of the United States appoin...

9. CHAPTER IV.

An Act to amend the Act entitled “An Act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an e...

10. CHAPTER V.

We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in order to form a more independent and perfect government; establish justice; insure...