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Show w HRSiaKT10N, ' . 111 below the KsignnUbn of iho acting: governor of" the territory -Hk E'celleiicy Gov, Option. ha taken the ouiy conrso that . gentleman ft hi posUttm contd occiipy, What niay he the IItfca f Qcivernnr WoOtton we1tnowT.ot. jre ha--coiulircf-cd himscirofpcially as gentleman here. He may or may nollic aSe.fcesiilouist, hut I wc cdnslder him a fair qnt-pokcu man. White he endor-es not the sentiments of the. present retgn. Ke it fully jiistified- In resigning an oftlco that, under present circumstances, qntd jnost probably Int-pair Int-pair .(us stnndlng with his Southern friends. Uxiw'tive Orricn, i Great Ssit Lake City -June tth 1861, y To Ifis J!ttr)ttna Mfithm Lwdn, I'midtnl effo L'nilut Sir. Having beeu appointed by Presf, dent Buchanan Secretary of (heTerritory of Utabt I accejitcd- the trust, and have endeavored to dlscttarge my dutyt Siime: thon.Gov Alfred -Cummin-, uudcr leave obtained, lias Itft fr the States. In a& cordanco with, tlio provision contained in the third sectlou of an Act of ConRro entitled "An Act to ,estab)ish j$ TerrJ. .torial Government for Hie Tefritorj of UtttliIam iioiv, the acting Governor . , . rcccut COnrt;P f ywr A d nifnwtf fttjon makes it inconsistent wit h my -sense of duty to longer hold office oudor you4 and 1 accordingly tender you my resignation. 4 Aslanr tho only txecnllve .officer in thelerntoryi will remain until relieved by my successor, whose arrivairhone will occnt speedily, I ani, sir, very respectfully, Vonr oVt scrmnt, FaANqa JL Woottok, Acting Gcveniar cf Ifiah |