Arizona Primary Legal Materials

Statehood Documents

• Documents Leading to Statehood:
  • List of documents tracing Arizona's path to Statehood, arranged by year.  Available at the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records.
• Joint Resolution To Admit the Territories Of New Mexico and Arizona As States Into the Union Upon Equal Footing With the Original States, No. 8, August 21, 1911. U.S. Statutes At Large 37 (1911): 39. 
• Proclamation Of Admission [Of Arizona As a State]. February 14, 1912. U.S. Statutes At Large 37 (1912): 1728.
• Arizona (Terr.). Constitutional Convention, 1891.
  • Constitution For the State Of Arizona, As Adopted By the Constitutional Convention, Friday, October 2, 1891, and Address To the People of the Territory. Phoenix, 1891. 
• Arizona (Terr.) Constitution Convention, 1910.
  • Proposed Constitution For the State Of Arizona. 
  • Adopted by the Constitutional Convention, Convention Held At Phoenix, Ariz., From October 10 to December 9, 1910. Phoenix: 1910. Minutes. Propositions.  
• Report of the Attorney General of Arizona Territory. (1889-1911). 

Tucson Pre-Statehood Charter/Ordinances

• Tucson. Charter and Ordinances of the City of Tucson. (multiple versions/editions). 
• Also available via Google Books.

Territorial Law

• Governor's Messages to the Territorial Legislative Assembly of Arizona. (1866-1909).  
• Territorial Legislative Assembly. Acts, Resolutions, Memorials. [Session laws.] 1st - 25th, 1864-1909. 
• Compiled Laws Of the Territory Of Arizona: Including the Howell Code and the Session Laws From 1864 to 1871 Inclusive. Coles Bashford, comp (Albany: Weed, Parson & Co. Printers, 1871).
• Compiled Laws Of the Territory Of Arizona, 1864-1877. J. Hoyt, comp. (Detroit: Richmond, Backus & Co., 1877).
• Howell Code. Adopted By the First Legislative Assembly Of Arizona. (Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1865). 
• Revised Statutes Of Arizona. Civil [and] Penal.(Prescott: 1887). 
• Revised Statutes Of Arizona Territory. (Columbia, Mo.: E. W. Stephens, 1901). 
• Mining Laws Of the Territory Of Arizona. (Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1864). 
• Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. 1st - 25th, 1864-1909. 

Territorial Courts

• Territorial Supreme Court. Report Of Cases Argued and Determined In the Supreme Court Of the Territory Of Arizona [Arizona Reports]. V.1-13, 1866-1911. (San Francisco: Bancroft, 1884-1911.)
• Rules Of the District Court Of the First Judicial District Of the Territory Of Arizona In and For the County Of Pima, Adopted October 5, 1874. (Tucson: Arizona Citizen Print, 1874.) [Amendments appear in Arizona Reports vols.]
• Rules of the Supreme Court Of the Territory Of Arizona, Adopted March 20, 1903. (S.L., 1903).
• Rules Of the District Court Of the First Judicial District Of the Territory Of Arizona In and For the County Of Pima, Adopted October 5, 1874. (Tucson: Arizona Citizen Print, 1874.) [Amendments appear in Arizona Reports vols.].  

Pre-statehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, including New York City and the District of Columbia, Michael Chiorazzi & Marguerite Most, 2-vol. (KF 240.P688 2005).

Wondrous Times on the Frontier: Exploring Arizona's Territorial History through Government Documents, Jacquelyn Gayle Kasper (KFA 2401.K37 2004).