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  THE

  LEGISLATIVE MANUAL,

  --OF THE--

  STATE OF COLORADO,

  --COMPRISING--

  THE HISTORY OF COLORADO, ANNALS OF THE LEGISLATURE,
  MANUAL OF CUSTOMS, PRECEDENTS AND FORMS, RULES
  OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE, AND THE CONSTITUTIONS
  OF THE UNITED STATES AND
  THE STATE OF COLORADO.

  --ALSO--

  CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, LISTS AND
  TABLES FOR REFERENCE, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC.

  _THOMAS B. CORBETT._

  FIRST EDITION.

  DENVER, COLORADO.
  DENVER TIMES PUBLISHING HOUSE AND BINDERY.
  1877.

  Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877,
  BY THOMAS B. CORBETT,
  In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.




PREFACE.


The first edition of the COLORADO LEGISLATIVE MANUAL is herewith
presented. While designed for the use of the General Assembly, it cannot
fail to interest all classes--the lawyer, the merchant, the aspirant
after political honors, and even the young who are ripening into manhood
and soon to share its grave responsibilities. It contains information
which cannot be elsewhere acquired without a great expenditure of time
and patience, in the examination of records, the reconciliation of
numerous discrepancies, the supplement of omissions and the correction
of errors. The pre-State history is necessarily brief. Sketches of
prominent characters, and comments on events and the acts of individuals
are not introduced, for