AGENCY: United States. Board of Registration and Election in the Territory of Utah

SERIES: 396
TITLE: Election returns register
DATES: i 1891-1895.
ARRANGEMENT: Volumes are arranged chronologically by year. Entries are by level of office and/or alphanumerically by county or district.

DESCRIPTION: These volumes contain certified election return abstracts from around the territory for each year from 1891 through 1895. The returns are certified by members of the Utah Commission or by the Board of Canvassers. The volumes contain returns for elections from the municipal level to territory or state-wide positions, but not all levels are present in each year.

The 1891 volume contains returns from each district for members of the Legislative Council and returns for members of the territorial House of Representatives. It also contains general election returns of county and precinct officers. The 1892 volume contains returns for delegates to Congress, territorial, and county officers plus those for precinct officers.__Returns for members of the Legislative Council and the territorial House comprise the 1893 volume. The 1894 volume contains general election returns for county and precinct officers and returns of a special election to choose delegates to a constitutional convention. The 1895 volume contains returns for the election of state and district offices plus a referendum on the adoption of a state constitution; it also contains returns of the general election of county and municipal officers.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

Records document the process and activities of the commission.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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