Journals of the House of Representatives, 1812-1816.

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Journals of the House of Representatives, 1812-1816.

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Journals of the territorial House of Representatives for the First General Assembly (first session) and the Second General Assembly (first and second sessions) record the selection of legislative officers; appointments to committees; names of members who attended each session; messages received from the Legislative Council; addresses to joint sessions by the Governor, usually verbatim transcripts; rules or resolutions adopted; presentations of bills and stages of their readings; committee actions; title lists of prepared bills; passages of bills; and revenues received by the territorial Treasurer in 1814 and 1815, together with an account of funds paid by the territorial Auditor of Public Accounts. The journals contain little or no discussion of the bills under consideration.

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