Arizona | The complete proceedings of the Arizona Constitutional Convention

Arizona

Journals of the Constitutional Convention of Arizona. As provided for by the Enabling Act of Congress approved June 20th, 1910. Held in the Hall of the House of Representatives in the Capitol of the Territory of Arizona, at Phoenix, Arizona, October 10 to December 9, 1910. Compiled by Con P. Cronin, State Librarian of Arizona. [Phoenix]: np, 1 November, 1925. [With]: Letters exchanged between Cronin and Governor George W.P. Hunt

Folio (335 x 230 mm). 648 pages of typescript, title-page with perforated stamp of the Arizona State Library, signed letter from Cronin at end; lacking leaf 238 apparently as issued, marginal short closed tear to last few leaves. In original quarter red morocco over maroon boards, boards with red morocco labels decorated in gilt, spine gilt lettered; rubbed at joints, some loss of original binding and repairs at head and foot of spine, boards bumped at edges and exposed in a few places. [With]: 2–page typed letter (285 x 195) on Arizona State Law and Legislative Reference Library letterhead, dated 2 December 1925, sent to Governor George W.P. Hunt and signed by Cronin [and] 1 page typed letter (320 x 188 mm) from Hunt [with] Hunt's calling card (45 x 86 mm); letters worn and soiled, and adhered together at heads. Housed in a red clamshell box.

Containing the complete proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Arizona, compiled by the State Librarian of the State of Arizona, Con P. Cronin. The final leaf features a signed letter certifying "that the within and fore-going is the full, true and correct copy of the volume 'Journals of the Constitutional Convention of Arizona, 1910,' on file and of record in the said State Library, as corrected."

Cronin's letter to Governor Hunt states, "Until the present time no complete record of the proceedings of the Arizona Constitutional Convention has existed. ... For several years there has been a persistent demand from a few sources for copies of the Proceedings, as it is in many respects the most important unpublished civics document in the United States today ... " Hunt's response is a letter of gratitude, congratulating Cronin on the "tremendous amount of painstaking effort that must have been required for [him] to compile and perfect the work."