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Letter from the Territorial Governor Regarding House Bill No. 42
Letter of 17 March 1893 from Arizona Governor Nathan O. Murphy to the House
of Representatives, recommending changes in House Bill No. 42 (written and introduced by George W. P. Hunt). The changes suggested are
to place the the proposed territorial museum at the territorial university (now the University of Arizona) inTucson instead of at the territorial
library and that it be under the care of the university board of regents rather
than the governor and other executive branch officials. The changes were adopted and the
bill passed the house with unanimous support; it was enacted on March 8 and
signed by the governor on April 7, 1893. 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.
