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Title: Latter-day Saints in Utah: Opinion of the Hon. Z. Snow, judge of the Supreme Court of the United States for the territory of Utah, upon the official course of His Excellency Gov. Brigham Young... charge of the Hon. Judge Snow, upon the trial of Howard Egan before the United States District Court, on indictment for the murder of James Monroe... A bill to establish a territorial government for Utah... Author: Richards, F.D. & Z. Snow Place: Liverpool & London Publisher: F.D. Richards/ T.C. Armstrong Date: 1852 Description: 24 pp. 20.5x13 cm. (8x5"), modern quarter morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Important legal proceedings relating to the early governance of Utah. Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, 679: "...the pamphlet opens with an exchange of correspondence between Willard Richards and Zerubbabel Snow... with Snow's opinion that Brigham Young proceeded properly in taking the census and organizing the territorial legislature prior to the arrival of the territorial appointees... Next are the plea or George A. Smith in defense of Howard Egan at Egan's trial before Snow for the murder of James Monroe and Snow's charge to the jury... These are followed by the text of the act organizing Utah Territory and the names of the territorial officers appointed by [President] Millard Fillmore, September 28, 1850." Flake & Draper 7226; Howes R248; Eberstadt Utah 438. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition. Item number: 225089