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MT - 1867 - Oregon Stage Company Payment Document *Territorial* :

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MT - 1867 - Oregon Stage Company Payment Document *Territorial* :
Lot of two. 1: Handwritten document of cash payments from March 1867 to individuals including stage agents, blacksmiths, tolls, saddler, advertising, salaries, board and feed and hostlers. Lists names of individuals at left, trade and amount at right. Sixty-five lines of names handwritten on lined ledger paper. Totals of payments listed on opposite of page. Good condition with slight edge tearing. Previously folded, creases somewhat tight. 2. 2: January, 1867. Additional names listed on two sheets (73 names total) including A.E. Mayhew from Deer Lodge County, an early lawyer who first practiced in miners' courts then in the territorial courts. Mayhew served as a representative of the House in early Montana Territory politics. Significantly, Mayhew served in the legislature that established its first state convention. Though seen as not an entirely organized system by the federal government at the time, specifically wrangling against observing laws enacted in the Montana Territory by the state legislature, statehood was debated openly and led its first governor to threaten secession of the Territory to British Columbia [Bancroft, 1890]. Certainly many names listed in this collection of cash payment by the Oregon Stage Company, including Mayhew, had their own ideas of statehood and what that would mean for the future fo the Montana Territory. Good condition, previously folded, creases tight. 8.5" x 13".