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First Laws of the Territory of Nevada (Fulton Collection)

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First Laws of the Territory of Nevada (Fulton Collection)
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Published on January 15, 1862 by Orion Clemens, Secretary of the Territory. Laws of the Territory of Nevada passed at the first regular meeting of the Legislative Assembly begun on October 1, 1861.Acts include: 1) Create a Gold Hill and Silver City Gas Company, incorporate the Humboldt River Ferry Company, prohibit marriages and cohabitation between whites and Indians, Chinese, Mulattos and Negros, construction of a railroad to a certain point on the East Walker River, creation of counties, authorizing $1000 for the capture of William Mayfield for the murder John Blackburn sheriff of Carson County, and a act to to construct the "Virginia, Carson and Truckee Railroad Company, beginning near or at Gold Hill, to New York House, Half Way House, Chinatown (or Dayton), to Carson City. There are also some references to mining laws (how to make a claim, sale, partition, exempt from taxation, etc.) interspersed throughout, that can be found in the extensive index. Spine has completely come apart and this volume needs repair. Still you won't find it this wonderful resource every day!



This was the personal copy of John Bowman, Washoe County, N. T., Justice of the Peace. Bowman arrived in Nevada just about the time that this book was published. He would soon move to ply his trade at Austin and Belmont. In Thompson and West's 1881 History of Nevada he is listed as an original settler of Grantsville. He would be elected twice to the Nevada Assembly from Nye County. He would moved back to Reno and become the Washoe County District Attorney. Bowman was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1874. (Fulton Collection)

City: Nevada
State: Carson City
Date: 1862
HWAC#: : 26643