History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

STATE AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. 455
not until one year later that the state was officially
merged into the territory of Utah. The territorial
form of government was accepted only as a temporary
measure, applications being made to congress for admission
as a state, at intervals, as we shall see later,
until 1882. Meanwhile, for many years, the shadow
of a state government was preserved, the members of
the ideal state assembly, after each session, reenacting
and sanctioning by vote and in due form the laws
which they had previously passed as a territorial
legislature.
On the 1st of July a proclamation was issued by the
governor, ordering that an election for members of
the assembly and for a delegate to congress be held
throughout the territory on the first Monday in August.
On July 21st three Indian agencies were estab-
lished, 34 an agent and two sub-agents, of whom the lat-
ter had already arrived, and were now assigned to their
districts, having been appointed by the government.
On the 8th of August three judicial districts were
defined. Judges were assigned to each, and the times
and places appointed for holding courts in the several
counties appointed, 35 these powers being temporarily
conferred on the governor by the organic act.
The appointment of governor and superintendent of
34 The first or Parvan agency included all that lay within the limits of the
territory north of the Parvan Valley and west of the Shoshones. The second,
or Uintah agency, included the Shoshones, Ewintes or Uintahs, Yampas, 'and
all other tribes south within said territory, and east of the eastern rim of the
great basin.' The third or Parowan agency included 'all the country lying
west of the eastern rim of the great basin, and south of the south line of the
Parvan Valley, to the western bounds of the territory.' Governor Young's
Proclamation, in Utah, Jour. Legist., 1851-2, 160.
35 The first judicial district included the city and county of G. S. Lake,
Tooele county, and the region east and west to the limits of the territory.
Two terms were to be held each year at S. L. City, commencing on the second
Tuesday of April and October. The second district included Davis and Weber
counties, and the region east, west, and north. Semiannual terms were to be
held at Ogden, commencing on the second Tuesday in May and December.
Utah, San Pete, and Iron counties, with the country east, west, and south,
formed the third district, and sessions were to be held twice a year at Provo,
beginning on the second Tuesday of August and February. Each term in
the several districts was to continue one week, if necessary, after which the
court might adjourn to any other county if business should require it. Id.,
160-1.