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Thirty-fifth Session, 1882--Senate: James Hill assembly: Geo D

McDill, Franklin L Gibson, speaker; Olof A Sangestad

Thirty-sixth Session, 1883--Senate: James Hill assembly: Canute Anderson, John D Putnam, Geo D McDill, James Johnston

Thirty-seventh Session, 1884--Senate: Joel F Nason assembly: Hans B

Warner, Frank M Nye, Thomas Porter; Charles S Taylor, J B Thayer

(For thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Sessions see Addenda)

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF MINNESOTA

Governors: Alexander Ramsey, from June 1, 1849, to May 15, 1853; Willis A Gorman, from May 15, 1853, to April 23, 1857; Saates to Congress: Henry H Sibley, Jan 15, 1849, to March 4, 1853; Henry M Rice, Dec 5, 1853, to March 4, 1857; W W Kingsbury, Dec 7, 1857, to May 11, 1858

Chief Justices: Aaron Goodrich, June 1, 1849, to Nov 13, 1851; Jerome Fuller, Nov 13, 1851, to Dec 16, 1852; Henry Z Hayner, Dec 16, 1852, to April 7, 1853 (Judge Hayner never presided at a single terave but one decision, which was to pronounce the prohibition law unconstitutional); William H Welch, April 7, 1853, to May 24, 1858

associate Justices: David Cooper, June 1, 1849, to April 7, 1853; Bradly B Meeker, June 1, 1849, to April 7, 1853; Andrew G Chatfield, April 7, 1853, to April 23, 1857; Moses G Sherburne, April 7, 1853, to April 13, 1857; R R Nelson, April 23, 1857, to May 24, 1858; Charles E Flandrau, April 23, 1857, to May 24, 1858

CENSUS OF THE TERRITORY--AUGUST, 1849

PRECINCTS MALES FEMALES TOTAL

Stillwater 455 154 609 Lake St Croix 129 32 161 Marine Mills 142 31 173 Falls of St Croix 15 1 16 Snake River 58 24 82 St Paul 540 300 840 Little Canada and St Anthony Falls 352 219 571 Crow Wing and Long Prairie 235 115 350 Osakis Rapids 92 41 133 ----- --- ----- Total 2,018 977 2,935

Upon the basis of this population the governor established the following legislative districts:

First district: St Croix precinct, extending on the west side of the St Croix and Mississippi rivers to the Iowa line; Second district: Stillwater; Third district: St Paul; Fourth district: Marine Mills and the country north to the British possessions; Fifth district: St

Anthony Falls; Sixth district: The country east of the Mississippi not e north to the British possessions; Seventh district: All the territory on the west of the Mississippi river not embraced in the sixth and first districts

FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE--HELD SEPT 3 TO NOV 1, 1849

Council: David Olmsted, president; district No 1, James S Norris; No 2, Samuel Burkelo; No 3, William H Forbes, James McC Boal; No

4, David B Loois; No 7, Martin McLeod

House: Joseph W Furber, of Cottage Grove, speaker; district No 1, Joseph W Furber, James Wells; No 2, M S Wilkinson, Sylvanus Trask, Mahlon Black; No 3, Benj W Brunson, Henry Jackson, John J Dewey, Parsons K Johnson; No 4, Henry N Setzer; No 5, Williaas; No 6, Jeremiah Russell, Allan Morrison, Lorenzo A Babcock, Thomas A Holmes; No 7, Alexis Bailly, Gideon H

Pond

The limits of this work preclude the insertion of a coive, therefore, the representation of the St Croix valley

SECOND TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE, 1851