LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

TERRITORIAL.

Presidents of the Council and Speakers of the House of
Representatives.

FIRST LEGISLATURE-1849.

President David Olmsted, of Long Prairie.
Speaker - Joseph W. Furber, of Cottage Grove.

SECOND LEGISLATURE - 1851.

President - David B. Loomis, of Marine Mills.
Speaker Michael E. Ames, of Stillwater.

THIRD LEGISLATURE - 1852.

President-William H. Forbes, of St. Paul.
Speaker-John D. Ludden, of Marine.

FOURTH LEGISLATURE — 1853.

President-Martin McLeod, of Lac qui Parle.
Speaker - David Day, of Long Prairie.

FIFTH LEGISLATURE-1854.

President - S. Baldwin Olmsted, of Belle Prairie.
Speaker-N. C. D. Taylor, of Taylors Falls.

SIXTH LEGISLATURE-1855.

President-William P. Murray, of St. Paul.
Speaker-James S. Norris, of Cottage Grove.

SEVENTH LEGISLATURE-1856.

President John B. Brisbin, of St. Paul.
Speaker-Charles Gardner, of Westervelt.

EIGHTH LEGISLATURE - 1857.

President John B. Brisbin, of St. Paul.
Speaker-Joseph W. Furber, of Cottage Grove.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

TERRITORIAL.

FIRST APPORTIONMENT.

On July 7, 1849, Gov. Alex. Ramsey, by proclamation, fixed the following council districts for the Territory, which had not then been divided into counties: 1. The St. Croix precinct, of St. Croix county, and the settlements on the west bank of the Mississippi, south of the Crow village to the Iowa line. 2. The Stillwater precinct of the county of St. Croix. 3. The St. Paul precinct (except Little Canada settlement). 4. Marine Mills, Falls of St. Croix, Rush Lake, Rice River and Snake River precincts, of St. Croix county and La Pointe county. 5. The Falls of St. Anthony precinct and the Little Canada settlement. 6. The Sauk Rapids and Crow Wing precincts, of St. Croix county, and all settlements west of the Mississippi and north of the Osakis river, and a line thence west to the British line. 7. The country and settlements west of the Mississippi not included in districts 1 and 6.

Total: Council, 9 members; house, 18 members.

HOUSE.

Joseph W. Furber, of Cottage Grove, Speaker.

1. Joseph W. Furber, James Wells.

2.

M. S. Wilkinson, Sylvanus Trask, Mahlon Black.

3. Benj. W. Brunson, Henry Jackson, John J. Dewey, Parsons K. Johnson.

4. Henry F. Setzer.

5. William R. Marshall, William Dugas.

6. Jeremiah Russell, Allan Morrison, Lorenzo A. Babcock, Thomas A. Holmes.

7. Alexis Bailly, Gideon H. Pond.

1.

SECOND LEGISLATURE-1851.

[Assembled January 1; Adjourned March 31.]

COUNCIL.

David B. Loomis, of Marine Mills, President.

James S. Norris.

2. Samuel Burkleo.

3.

William H. Forbes, James McC. Boal.

4. David B. Loomis.

1.

2.

HOUSE.

Michael E. Ames, of Stillwater, Speaker.

John A. Ford, James Wells.

Michael E. Ames, Sylvanus Trask, Jesse Taylor.

3. Benj. W. Brunson, J. C. Ramsey, Edmund Rice, H. L.

6.

David Gilman, S. B. Olmsted, W. W. Warren, D. T.
Sloan.

7. Benj. Randall, Alex. Faribault.

APPORTIONMENT OF 1851.

The Territory, having been divided into counties, it was appor tioned by the second legislature into council districts as follows: