Important from the Great Salt Lake subtitle: Progress of the Mormon Settlement; Election of State Officers; A Delegate to Congress; Organization of a State Government, &c.
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The people in Utah have created a constitution for the proposed state, Deseret. The names of those on the committee to draft the constitution are given here, as well as the names of the elected state officers and the representative chosen to take the proposal to Washington. The article includes excerpts and summaries of the draft of the constitution.
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Public domain; Courtesy Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
