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Appointment records for a variety of positions including notary publics; commissioners of deeds; mine inspector, Capitol Building Commission; university regents; commissioners of pharmacy; penitentiary commissioners; insane asylum commissioners; trustees for the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind; territorial auditor; and territorial treasurer.

Records include requests, legislature responses, recommendations, and petitions.

Scope and Content From the Collection: Correspondence and record series covering appointment records, petitions for pardons, the requisition and extradition of fugitives, organization of new counties, and Indian and military affairs. Topics include livestock, Indians, railroad routes, university lands, indebtedness of territory, Chinese issues including the massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming, mining, women's suffrage, appointments, pardons for convicts, legislative matters, statehood, arid lands, militia, game and fish,...

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Inventories of furniture from the Governor's office and legislature.

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Report of the Chinese Consul at New York to the Chinese Minister; includes list of victims and estimated losses; Nov. 10, 1885.

Letter from a U.S. State Department official to Anthony C. Campbell, U.S. District Attorney for Wyoming regarding complaint received from the Chinese Minister, April 21, 1886.

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Manuscript of J. H. Kelly, prospector and railroad route scout (This is considered part of correspondence. Since Historical Research has some records from J. H. Kelly, a copy was transferred to the manuscript collection.).

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Subpoena to Governor Warren, William P. Gannett, Perry Smith, and Charles W. Stewart to appear in the Court of Chancery of Laramie County to answer a bill filed by Luke Voorhees, George A. Dooker, and George W. Baxter.

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Compilations of information from Sweetwater, Johnson, and Laramie Counties. Information includes dates of organization, election statistics, county officials and judges, taxes, and statistics for mills in Johnson County.

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Budget of the Wyoming Territorial Government for the fiscal year ending June, 1886.

Scope and Contents Official correspondence with representatives of local, territorial, state, and federal governments, as well as private citizens. Topics include livestock shipment and disease, reports on banks, Indians, Albany County organizations, indebtedness of territory, railroad routes, university lands, Home Rule for Ireland, Governor Warren's appointment, pardons and petitions for pardons, Chinese massacre at Rock Springs, Chinese problems in Cheyenne, legislative matters, mining, women suffrage,...