Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-04-27
A FEW FACTS
Concerning what was Done by the Eleventh. Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Legislatures of Ari- zOna.

Fourteenth Legislatures of Ari- zona. Herald.
 If the Fifteenth legislature was not legal, including its final day of adjourn ment, then our financial, commercial and legal systems are all chaos. READ THE RECORD.
 The Eleventh legislature met January Sd, 1881. The consecutive sixty days ended March 3d, 1881, and the following laws were passed after that date:
 March 5-Act approving changing time of meeting of legislature to second Monday in January. Under this act the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth | legislatures met If the act is illegal, | then the entire acts of these legislatures are also illegal, or the excess from the first Monday is illegal, as hereinafter | set forth.
 March 5-City of Prescott incorpor- ated.
 March Provides for survey of coun- ty boundaries. March 7-Rodeo law. March Sinking fund, Maricopa county.
 March Making office of probate | judge elective.
 March 9-Re- assessing justices su- preme court.
 March 1O-The territorial revenue | law.
 March 1O-Creating the county of Graham.
 March-12 -Re-districting judicial dis tricts.
 March -s2OOOO prison bonds, terri | torial.
 March 12- -Maricopa county buildings -S25,000 bonds. March 12-Appropriation bill. Expenses of Eleventh legislature S3O,- 900 (about). TWELFTH LEGISLATUkE.
 The act of the Eleventh legislature, changing date, if illegal, then the Twelfth legislature should have met January 1st, (Monday), and should have ended March 1st, 1883.
 March 2-Amending act fixing terms district court.
 March 3 Authorizing district courts to change persons names. March 3-Funding 8 debt of Gila coun- ty-S15,OO0 bonds. March 3-Cochise county bonds S1OOOOO
 March 6-March county hospital 5000 bonds.
 March Compensation of sheriffs. March 6-Graham county bonds, S15,- GOO.
 March 6-Florence town lot sale au- thorized.
 March 6-Prescott and 8 Parallel R. R. S2O0,OO0 bonds.
 March 6 Official oaths and bonds.
 March 6-Public highways, Maricopa county.
 March 6 School building District No 3, Pinal county, S4,OO0 bonds. March 6-Pima county bonds, S30O,- 900.
 March 6-Apache county bonds, s10,- 900.
 March -Re-incorporating the city of Tucson,
 March Creating office of attorney general. March 7-Conferring certain powers upon railroad corporations. March S.-Regulating fees of county and present officers.
 March S-Providing bonds for funded debt, s260,O00.
 March 8 Funding certain bonded Ter ritorial debt
 March S-Phenix and Maricopa R. R., S60,OOO.
 March S-Yavapai county bonds for wagon road, S5,O00.
 March 8-Yavapai county bonds for certain wagon roads, S15,000.
 March S-Territorial lien law.
 March S-Revenue law, Territorial and county.
 March S.-Punishing cheats and frauds.
 March S.-Creating s. Territorial Audi tor.
 March S.-Appropriation bill.
 Expenses of the 12th legislature, S29,- 900 (about.).
 THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURES,
 Legal day for meeting Monday, Janu- ary 3, provided act of March 5, 1881, is illegal, and should have ended March 5, 1885.
 Four-fifths of the laws of this legisla- ture were passed after March 5. Of the most important are:
 March 7-Creating Commissioner of Immigration.
 March 9-Maricopa county bonds to Territorial Insane Asylum, s3,5OO.
 March 9-Territorial Insane Asylum establishing bonds, S100,0O0.
 March 9-Creating county court of Mohave county.
 March 11-Incorporating Phenix.
 March 1l-Creating office of county assessor, etc., in various counties,
 March 11-Revenue law, Territorial and counties.
 March 11-School system.
 March 12-Phenix and Maricopa R. k. s2OO,OOO bonds.
 March 12 -Escheated estates,
 March 12-P. P. and Prescott k. R S4,OOO per mile.
 March 12-Gila county bonds, Sl50,0O0 railroad from Flagstaff.
 March 12-Insolvent act.
 March 12-Creating Territorial Nor nal school.
 March 12-County court of Cochise county.
 March 12-Gila River bridge at Flor ence, s15,00O
 March 12-University of Arizona or ganization. etc.
 March 12-Revenue act, Territorial and county.
 March 12-County court at Pima county.
 March 12-Incorpating the city of Tombstone.
 March 12-Grammer school at Clifton, SS.000 bonds.
 March 12-Building bridges, Apache county, S12,OO0 bonds
 March 12-Appropriations, 1885 and 1886.
 March 12-Expenses of the Legisla- ture, s40,0OO, about.
 FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE.
 Should have met January 3 (provided the act of March ,. 1881, was illegal), and should have ended March 3, 1887.
 Under this construction almost the entire Revised Statutes of 1887 are il- legal, only few minor portions of it having been approved prior to March 4, 1907