(MORMONS) Acts Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the First

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(MORMONS.) Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed by the First Annual . . . Assembly of the Territory of Utah . . . also the Constitution of the United States, and the Act Organizing the Territory of Utah. 8, 48, 37-258 pages. 8vo, modern morocco; minimal dampstaining. Salt Lake City, UT: Brigham H. Young, 1852

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Includes "An Act in Relation to Service" (pages 80-82), which legalized slavery in Utah Territory and forbade miscegenation. Indian slaves are covered in another act, pages 93-94. Also included is the United States Constitution with an 1850 act to establish a Utah territorial government, having its own title page. The printer was a nephew of Governor Brigham Young. McMurtrie, Utah 15, 12. Provenance: purchased from the William Reese Company, 2008.