[Arizona]:

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JOURNALS OF THE FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.... [with:] JOURNALS OF THE SECOND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF ... Two very early and significant Arizona imprints, being the first two legislative journals which document the creation of formal government in Arizona Territory, including considerable content on the rocky relationship with local Native American groups.The First Legislative Assembly ran for forty-three days in the fall of 1864. The men met in a newly built two-room log cabin and established the first laws of Arizona as well as its first four counties, and created a volunteer militia for protection from hostile Native Americans. The Second Legislative Assembly was held in December 1865, with major legislation including the establishment of Arizona as a community property state, as well as the passing of the Copper State's notorious miscegenation law (House Bill No. 17), which stood until it was struck down by an Arizona appellate court in 1959 and repealed by the legislature in 1960.Held immediately following the Civil War, early legislation of the territory was unsurprisingly adamant about issues of slavery. The Organic Act that established the temporary government for the Territory, included at the beginning of the first JOURNALS, has only three sections: one which establishes the boundaries of the territory, one which establishes the three branches of government (to be appointed by Lincoln), and a third which states only that

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