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PROCLAMATION.

TO THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA:

I, JOHN N. GOODWIN, haring boen apunted by the President of the United States, and duly qualified, as Governor of the TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. de rereby announce that by virtue of the powers with which I am invested by an Act of the Congress of the Cued States, providing a temporary government for the Territo ry, I shall this day proceed to orgen ze said govenment. The provisions of the Act, and all laws and enact ments established thereby, will be enforced by the proper Territorial officers from and after this date.

A preliminary census will forthwith be taken, and thereafter the Judicial D'atriets will be formed, and an election of members of the Leg slative Assembly, and the other officers, provided by the Act, be onvered.

I invoke the mud and co-operation of all citizens of the Territory in my efforts to establish a government whereby the security of life and property will be maintained throughout its limits, and its varied resources be rapidly and successfully developed.

for the best be at

JOHN N. GOODWIN.

The seat oprement ullly or near Fort Werfifile_

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CHAPTER IV.

EARLY TERRITORIAL DAYS.

GOVERNOR GOODWIN'S SWING AROUND THE CIRCLE -PROCLAMATION ORGANIZING TUCSON

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A MUNICIPALITY PROCLAMATION SETTING
TIME FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO CON-
GRESS AND MEMBERS OF FIRST TERRITORIAL
LEGISLATURE-ORGANIC ACT RESULT OF
FIRST VOTE FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS-
CHARLES D. POSTON-CHARLES LEIB-WILL-
IAM D. BRADSHAWS. ADAMS-Wм. J.
BERRY-LIST OF MEMBERS OF FIRST LEGISLA-
TURE COLES BASHFORD-W. CLAUDE JONES
-FORMATION OF COUNTIES SCHOOLS.

The Governor spent a month in visiting the newly discovered mining district for the protection of which Fort Whipple had been erected, and then went eastward to the Verde and Salinas Rivers with a view to ascertaining the character of that comparatively unknown portion of the Territory.

The months of April and May were devoted by the Governor to a tour throughout the southern portion of the Territory, on which trip the Governor visited Yuma and Tucson, and while at Tucson issued the following proclamation:

"To All Whom It May Concern:

"In accordance with the request made to me by the citizens of Tucson, and in pursuance of the resolutions adopted by them, at a meeting held on the 8th day of May, 1864, I appoint Wm. S. Oury, Mayor, and Mark Aldrich, Juan Elias, Sen., Hiram S. Stevens, Francisco S. Leon, and Jeremiah Riordan, Councillors.

"And the municipality of Tucson, as defined in said resolutions, and limited by said officers, is constituted a district within which said officers may exercise all the powers with which they are vested.

"Every attempt made to establish government and law will receive my approval and support.

"I enjoin all good citizens to conform to all regulations and ordinances made by said officers within the scope of their powers, and to sustain them in establishing law and order.

"Given under my hand and the seal of said Territory at Tucson, this eleventh day of May, A. D. 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

"By the Governor:

"JOHN N. GOODWIN.

"Richard C. McCormick,

"Secretary of the Territory."

So far as I am advised, Tucson was the first town ever incorporated by a Governor of a State or Territory, independent of other legislation.

The first seat of Government was located at Fort Whipple in the Little Chino Valley, from which point the Governor issued the following proclamation:

"To All Whom It May Concern:

"Whereas, It is provided by the first section of the Act of Congress, providing a temporary government for the Territory of Arizona, that the act organizing the Territorial Government of New Mexico, and acts amendatory thereto, together with all legislative enactments of the Territory of New Mexico, not inconsistent with the provisions of the first-named act, are extended to, and continued in force in said Territory

of Arizona, until repealed or amended by future legislation.

'And, Whereas, it is provided by the tenth Section of said act, organizing the Territory of New Mexico, that the said Territory shall be divided into three Judicial Districts, and a District Court shall be held in each of said Districts by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at such time and place as may be prescribed by law; and by the sixteenth section of said act, it is further provided, that temporarily, and until otherwise provided by law, the Governor of said Territory may define the Judicial Districts of said Territory, and assign the Judges who may be appointed for said Territory to the several Districts, and also appoint the time and places for holding Courts, in the several counties, or subdivisions, in each of said Judicial Districts, by proclamation to be issued by him.

"Now, by virtue of the aforesaid enactments, I do hereby order and direct, that until otherwise provided, the Territory of Arizona shall be Districted, the Judges assigned and the Courts held as follows, viz.:

"All that portion of said Territory lying south of the Gila River, and east of the 114th degree of longitude, west from Greenwich, shall constitute the First Judicial District.

"All that portion of said Territory lying west of the 114th degree of longitude, west from Greenwich, shall constitute the Second Judicial District.

"And all that portion of said Territory lying north of the Gila River and east of the 114th degree of longitude, west from Greenwich, shall constitute the Third Judicial District.

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