- Event type: CREATE
The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property 1889
The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property began on July 16, 1889 and dissolved on July 31, 1889. It allowed for delegates from both the North and South Conventions to meet in Bismarck and negotiate the splitting of the Territory of Dakota.
Committee on Public Library
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Report of the Committee on Public Library
We have here a list of the books in the Territorial Library, including all public records and documents. We didn’t take into consideration the reports of the various departments of the United States Government which are there, the reports of the various State governments which are there, and State Session Laws and public documents of the State. We simply inventoried the law books in the Library together with any miscellaneous books that were in the Library of any value. We have not been able to put a value upon them for the reason that we have only two complete sets of law reports in the Library, Equity Reports and the other, I believe, is the Kansas Reports, and the balance are in this shape: Alabama, volumes from 45 to 87 inclusive; Mississippi, 48, 49, 51, 52 53, 54, 55 and 56; Arkansas, from 22 to 45; Illinois, 1 to 123 inclusive. We find there is on hand sixty-two old volumes in worn condition. They are of very little or no value to any State Library. There are also 581 volumes Compiled Laws on hand, and the committee recommend that those be divided between the respective States; and, also, we have on hand a number of the Session Laws of 1889, and we recommend that they be divided between the respective States of North Dakota and South Dakota. And so far as the Library is concerned, we recommend that North and South Dakota place its own value upon that Library and that whichever wants it the worst and is willing to pay the most for it, pay one-half of the value placed upon it to the other State.
Decisions yet to be taken
Document Timeline
- Report of the Committee on Public Library (introduced on 1889-07-24 00:00:00 - CREATE - e923089) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1889-07-24 00:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e923090) [view current proposal at this moment]