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Letter from the Territorial Governor
Letter of 17 March 1893 from Arizona Governor Nathan O. Murphy to the House
of Representatives, recommending that the Territorial Museum proposed by George
W. P. Hunt during the 17th Legislative Assembly, in House Bill No. 42, be changed
to place the Museum at the Territorial University instead of the Territorial
Library, and that it be under the care of the University Board of Regents rather
than Governor, Secretary, and Attorney General. The changes were adopted, the
bill passed the house with unanimous support, it was enacted on 8 March, and
signed by the Governor on 7 April. This bill created what is now the Arizona
State Museum at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Reproduced from the original
in the Arizona State Museum Archives. Read the
text of the letter.
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