"On the 27th day of Feburary, 1851, Willard Richards, secretary of the state of Deseret, published ... a full compilation (known as the compilations of 1851) of all the laws of the state of Deseret. Of this compilation ... few copies were issued, and the ravages of time having destroyed almost all of the same, so there is not to exceed a dozen copies whose existence can be traced ... In addition to the compilation of 1851, we have added in an appendix, the constitution of the state of Deseret, and a few laws that the compiler neglected to insert in said compilation. Only a small number have been printed and the type distributed."--Preface.

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