Show f Jr 1 4 I 1 i r Walnut r Desk Served Founders o of Utah II 1831 tho res resolutions in 1848 18 signed in it across naros tho the plains by o oxen en 1 were desk brought this big big- bigI walnut Buzzo sits in this picture t ON of Utah Where Miss Dorothy J of Deseret into tho me merging ging the state of Deseret On this desk esk were wera of d th t the first general assembly house or Ic c ent of the upper jj t I once was seen tho president by Dr John AT M. Bernhisel and tho the document taken to Washington o oi on onby carried to Congress signed i ned d the memorial t by Almon W. W Babbitt both of which asked for a n now new w government go in in this state 1 r I tf f IJ it tf lr l I F Fida c- c t M m 11 I i 4 u n u JJ fit t r. r t t i t j. n A m t- t II I. I lit fa f. f iri ir t. t 1 14 1 d. d J trl i I it g U H 1 i l l t Wl j 4 n g fJ D fit f W.- W. ff t t ida E jit tJ t 1 4 t d Po E f IS o W It Y atit iJ i- i I f r. r J. J U tf W I o m rf y I W. 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F Philips VOICED away In a a. a. a corner of or the theL L of flee flee- of oC the public U utilities commission commission commissIon com com- mission In the C Capitol IB Is an old walnut desk which could It t talk lk what stories It might telL Though bearing the marl marks a of ot age ao It looks as If Ir It were hardy enough to td serve for tor another a seventy years It was brought across the plains In a wagon pulled b by oxen In 1848 buby but bu 41 55 by whom Is no not y known This d desk dealt elc was wa I used by tho the pres pres- presIdent r Ident of ot the tho upper y y d rouse house of ot tho the first firs j general assembly A y u y of ot the territory o of oC S which hel held Its first I session i iSalt In f f Salt Lake Like July 2 f A ISO 1849 A convention h had d been held hel earlier In the yc year r after a no call ha had been addressed to lOa toj all citizens of ot that tha portion of or Upper California lying c cast st st. of or the tho Sierra Nevada mountains an and early earh In March the convention met I ISalt In Salt Lake L. It was decided to petition petition peti- peti lion tion tion Congress for tor a R. territorial 1 form torm o ot of government and to organize I pending congressional action upon tho the petition p t provisional pro government A committee commit commit- tee was appointed to draft dratt and report a constitution for th the temporary of oC Deseret On March arch 10 after the committee had submitted d Its report the convention con adopted the tl constitution reported by the committee Tire The v natures appended to the tho committees committee's report were written upon the desk that now stands stand In tho the public utilities ott of- of ilce t It was upon this desk that the first tint j memorial to Congress was as signed The Tho document was wa transmitted d to that bod body by Dr Zohn fohn ohn M. M who vho carried with him to the national capital a 1 Jetter letter letter let Jet ter of introduction to Stephen A. A Douglas Doug Doug- las aa from Brigham Young Heber C C. Kimball and Willard mard Richards First A t Sends Send Appeal When hen the first general assembly of ot the territory of or Deseret assembled an another another another an- an other was memorial was drawn up for or pres- pres e to Congress The now new apIH appeal al asked ed for statehood After adoption b by tho the legislature it was forwarded to Congress by hy Almon Alison V. W. Babbitt who was as elected a n delegate to Con Congress Congre 3 and who al also ahlo o took with him a n copy of or the proposed d. d constitution of or the projected I I C I tate of or Deseret D This memorial was signed ned upon tho tha old walnut anut desk delk On L r 27 the document was presented to the Senate of oC the United States by Senator Stephen Stophen A A. Douglas and a month after was referred to the committee on territories After a D. dilay dt- dt lay of ot nine months a bill was wae parsed creating the territory ot of Uta Utah and was approved September 9 1850 1860 On September Sop Sop- 20 D Brigham Young YounS was as appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed governor of pf tho territory by President Millard Fill more It was was was' not until February 3 1851 however that ho he w was s advised of oC his appointment and nd took toole the o oath th of oC office A special session cession of ot tho the La Legislature was convened March 26 and April 6 B. B j 1851 It was vaS dissolved and th the pr provisional provisional pro pro- i visional Islon l govern government ens of ot the state elate of oC Deseret was wae merged In that of ot tho the terrItory territory ter ter- of ot Utah The resolutions providing providinG providing pro pro- viding for tor the absorption of oC tho the old state Into tho the territory ot of Utah were signed by II H. C C. Kimball president of the tho senate J J. J M. M Grant speaker of ot the house and T. T Bullock clerk of or tho the house These sIgna signatures ures were appended ap ap- ap- ap upon the old walnut desk deok Inny Laws Lawn Signed on beak besk Among tho the more acts of or the general assembly of the tho of ot Des Den most of ot which were cre approved on this old desk were tho following tho the titles being taken from tram Whitneys Whitney's history his his- his I tory An ordinance Incorporating Un the un university university uni uni- 1 of ot the the- state of oC Deseret Approved Ap Ap- Approved Ap- Ap proved February 28 1850 An ordinance prohibiting the sale of oC arms ammunition or or liquors to the Indians Approved March farch 28 1850 An ordinance to control contro the waters of oC tho the Twin Springs ant anti ancl Rock Springs In TO-oele TO county countr for mills 1118 and irrigating Irrigating Irrl- Irrl satin gating purposes Approved December 9 0 9 1860 This grant Irant was to tp Ezra T T. Benson who through his herdsmen and mill builders had pioneered pioneered pioneered pio pio- Tooele valley tho year car before Law t for r CIt City Creek Canyon on An ordinance con concerning City Creek Creck canyon the tho ordinance being worded thus Lie Be it ordain ordained d by the general assembly ly of ot the tho st state te of Deseret that Brigham Young have the tho solo control of oC City creek and Kan Kanyon n and that he ho the public treasury the sum eum of ot Approved December 9 1850 1860 An ordinance to Incorporate Great Salt Lako Lake CIl City Approved January 9 1850 O. O Moat host of oC these acts were vere signed on the tho little old walnut desk which with tho the written record la is all that remains of oC the time first J legislature hold heM In Gr at Salt Salt Lake City Desk and record will willbe willbe willbe be cherished down the years that are areto areto areto to come corne and that will bring to Utah the tho Ire greatest test pr prosperity In her history a |