Records of the Arkansas Territorial Superior Court and Supreme Court, 1808-ca. 1915.

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Records of the Arkansas Territorial Superior Court and Supreme Court, 1808-ca. 1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244788402

Includes records (1808-1817) of the Court of General Quarter Sessions, District of Arkansas; records (1808-1817) of the Court of Common Pleas, District of Arkansas; records (1817-1836) of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas; and records of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1842-1851) and roll of attorneys, Arkansas Supreme Court (ca. 1860-ca. 1915).

5 boxes.

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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On 15 June 1836, after an all-night congressional debate on the slavery question, President Andrew Jackson signed a bill to admit the State of Arkansas to the Union, effective the Fourth of July. Article VI, Section 1, of the Arkansas Constitution of 1836 vested the judicial power of the State "in one Supreme Court, in Circuit Courts, in County Courts and in Justices of the Peace." Section 2 declared that the Supreme Court would consist of three judges, including a Chief Justice, who would "have...

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