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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 the Disposition of Public Records
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Report of the Committee on the Transcription of Public Records
BISMARCK, July 24, 1889.
To the Joint Commission of North and South Dakota:
GENTLEMEN: Your sub-committee appointed to suggest an agreement for disposition of the archives, records and books of the Territory, as provided in sections five and six of the Enabling Act, would respectfully recommend:
First. That certain records as herein indicated should be transcribed— the originals to be allotted to one of the States and the copies to the other, by such arrangement as may be arrived at by the Commission.
Second. That such books, files, etc., as refer particularly to either section shall be allotted to that section, where a division of said files is possible.
Third. That in case of files, correspondence, etc., which shall refer to the two sections in general; that such files, correspondence, etc., shall be grouped in convenient lots, and said groups to be selected from by the respective sections alternately; the first choice to be determined by lot.
Fourth. That where transcription is recommended, the expense thereof shall be divided equally between the two sections.
Fifth. The more particular details as to this agreement are given below:
RECORDS TO BE TRANSCRIBED.
Secretary’s Office: Two volumes Railroad, Deeds, Mortgages and Leases, twenty-seven volumes Foreign and Domestic Incorporation Records, three Notarial Commission Records, one General Executive Record, one Record of Appointments, one Record of Elections.
Auditor’s Office: Six volumes Appropriation Records (Ledgers), one Executive Record, one volume Insurance Record, 1889, Articles of Domestic and. Foreign Insurance Companies.
Treasurer’s Office: Three Cash Books, one Journal, two Ledgers, two old books—Journal and Cash Book and Ledger, one Bond Register.
Governor’s Office: One Requisition Record; one Executive Record. Adjutant General’s Office: Record Books. Supreme Court Records: Record Books.
TO BE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO LOCALITY.
Secretary’s Office: Election Returns, Constitutional Conventions and Local Option; Application and Bonds of Notarial Commissions; Enrolled Bills of Local Application; Applications for Pardons; Articles of Domestic Incorporation; Papers relating to Organization of Counties.
Auditor’s Office: Vouchers of Local Application; One Bond Register, County Bonds, South Dakota.
Treasurer’s Office: One Warrant Register, to go to North Dakota; Letters to be divided by Counties, and Vouchers and Receipts the same; Bonds, Coupons paid;
Railroad Report of Gross Earnings; Canceled Bonds, South Dakota.
Public Examiner: Records to go to section where located.
Boards of Agriculture: Records.
Dental Examiners: Records.
Boards of Pharmacy: Records.
Governor’s Office: Census returns; requisition papers.
Commissioner of Immigration: (Nothing.)
TO BE DIVIDED BY LOT.
SECRETARY’S OFFICE.
No. 1. Correspondence, including Letter Files and Letter Books.
No. 2. Bills introduced in Legislature to date, House and Council Journals and Bill Books.
No. 3. Enrolled Bills of General Application.
No. 4. Applications and Affidavits of Foreign Loan and Building Associations.
No. 5. Proclamations of Governors.
No. 6. Oaths of Office, Commissioners of Deeds.
No. 7. Oaths and Bonds of Territorial Officials.
No. 8. Articles—Foreign Corporations.
No. 9. Articles not Specified.
GOVERNOR’S OFFICE.
No. 8%. Two volumes Visitors’ Registers.
No. 9 1/2. Official Correspondence, Letter Files and Letter Books.
No. 10 1/2. Lincoln Memorial.
No. 11 1/2. Articles not specified.
AUDITOR’S OFFICE.
No. 10. Warrant Register.
No. 11. Warrant Stubs and Redeemed Warrants.
No. 12. Vouchers other than those of Local Origin.
No. 13. Six volumes Insurance Records.
No. 14. Letter Files and Letter Books.
No. 15. Abstract of Assessment Roll. (One copy is with Auditor and the other is with Treasurer.)
No. 16. Annual Statements and Correspondence with Insurance Companies.
No. 16 1/2. Articles not specified.
TREASURER’S OFFICE.
No. 17. Two Warrant Registers with Auditor’s Receipts.
No. 18. Five Letter Books.
No. 19. Stub Receipts given for Railroad and other funds paid in.
ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE.
No. 20. Letters and papers.
No. 21. Commissioner of Immigration. Letters and Papers.
VETERINARY SURGEON.
No. 22. Letters and Papers.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
No. 22%. Letters and Papers.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
No. 23. Letters and Papers.
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE.
No. 24. Correspondence, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
HARVEY HARRIS,
E. W. CALDWELL, }
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