The appointment of legislative committees is also common at the beginning of each session, with the name of the committee and its members recorded. Brief reports of territorial agencies, such as the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, Penitentiary, Territorial Library, the Superintendent of Schools' Office, and the Auditor's Office, are regularly read into the record. Annual county financial reports also are recorded in full. Messages from the Council, or senate, usually relating to a joint session or the passage of a bill in that chamber, are recorded in full. Other messages include those from the territorial secretary or governor noting signing of a bill or reasons for veto.
Memorial tributes are rare.
Volumes and their entries are chronological. Microfilmed in 1970. Archivally processed by A.C. Cone in 1990.