 JfE'Y'A.DA. was organized as a Territory March 2, 1861. Its name signifies snowy, and is derived from the Spanish word nieve (snow.) It comprises 81,539 square miles, or 52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress,...  Gazetteer and Business Directory of Wayne County, N. Y., for 1867-8 - Page 691867 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | François-Xavier Martin - Louisiana - 1827 - 906 pages
...legislature, official information was received, that congress had, on the eleventh of February, passed an act, to enable the people of the territory to form a constitution and state government, and the admission of such state into the union. Congress had not, as yet, determined that... | |
 | François Xavier Martin - Louisiana - 1829 - 460 pages
...legislature, official information was received, that congress had, on the eleventh of February, passed an act, to enable the people of the territory to form a constitution and state government, and the admission of such state into the union. Congress had not, as yet, determined that... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - Rhode Island - 1842 - 76 pages
...government, the Territorial legislature, January 25, 1835, passed " An act to enable the people of Michigan to form a constitution and State government," in pursuance of which, a constitution was formed by a convention of the people at Detroit, in May, 1835. By the act of congress,... | |
 | Robert Allen Campbell - United States - 1866 - 390 pages
...52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the- Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed an act, which was approved March 21,...mineral resources was rapid and almost without parallel, and attracted a constant stream of immigration to that territory. As the population has not been subject... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1866 - 722 pages
...Territorial Legislature, before its adjournment, had received official information of the passage of the act to enable the people of the Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, preparatory to the admission of the new State into the Union. Congress having not as yet... | |
 | Ontario County (N.Y.) - 1867 - 266 pages
...52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed an act which was approved March 21, to...mineral resources was rapid and almost without parallel, and attracted a constant stream of immigration to the Territory. As the population has not been subject... | |
 | Ontario County (N.Y.) - 1867 - 236 pages
...lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed au act which was approved March 21, to enable the people...a State by Proclamation of the President, October 31,1864. At the time of its organization the Territory possessed a population of 6,857 white settlers.... | |
 | Onondaga County (N.Y.) - 1868 - 296 pages
...52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed an act which was approved March 21, to...mineral resources was rapid and almost without parallel, and attracted a constant stream of immigration to the Territory. As the population has not been subject... | |
 | Albany County (N.Y.) - 1870 - 502 pages
...52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed an act which was approved March 21, to...a State by Proclamation of the President, October 81, 1864. At the time of its organization the Territory possessed a population of 6,857 white settlers.... | |
 | Business enterprises - 1871 - 320 pages
...52,184,960 acres, lying mostly within the Great Basin of the Pacific coast. Congress, at its session in 1864, passed an act which was approved March 21, to...the President, October 31, 1864. At the time of its or¥mization the Territory possessed a population of 6,857 white settlers. he development of her mineral... | |
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