[Arizona]: Cronin, Con. P., compiler:

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JOURNALS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF ARIZONA. AS PROVIDED FOR BY THE ENABLING ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JUNE 20th, 1910. HELD IN THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CAPITOL OF THE ... The full journals of the 1910 Arizona constitutional convention, the first and only constitutional convention for the state. This copy was presented by the compiler, Arizona State Librarian Con. P. Cronin, to Arizona Governor George W.P. Hunt, who presided over the 1910 convention and who served seven terms as governor. Laid into this volume is a copy of Hunt's calling card, as well as correspondence between him and Cronin in 1925 in which the librarian explains the long and arduous process of compiling the volume. In his letter, dated December 2, 1925, Cronin presents this copy to the governor and explains that "until the present time no complete record of the proceedings of the Arizona Constitutional Convention has existed." He goes on to describe how he spent months collating the incomplete proceedings with the original minutes of the stenographer to produce the present volume. In his return letter to Cronin, dated December 4, Hunt thanks him for his "tremendous amount of painstaking effort."As Cronin reminds Hunt in his letter, the 1910 Arizona constitution as passed by the convention was controversial with regard to several issues. Cronin calls the convention proceedings "the most important unpublished civic document in the United States today, - containing as it does the

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