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TUCSON, ARIZONA 1 ‘

 INVENTORY OF THE COUNTY ARCHIVES
OF ARIZONA
PREPARED BY
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY
DIVISION OF WOMEN‘S AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
No. 10. PIMA COUNTY (TUCSON)
PHOENIX, ARIZONA .’
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY g
JULY 1938
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LUTHER H. EVANS, NATIONAL DIRECTOR
SIDNEY KARTUS, STATE DIRECTOR
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DIVISION OF WOMEN‘S AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
ELLEN S. WOODWARD, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR
AGNES HUNT PARKE, STATE DIRECTOR
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION I
HARRY L. HOPKINS, ADMINISTRATOR ‘
W. J. JAMIESON, STATE ADUINISTRATOR
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THE INVENTORY OF COUNTY ARCHIVES OF ARIZONA Is ONE OF A
NUMBER OF DIDLIOGRAPHIES OE HISTORICAL MATERIALS PREPARED
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES BY OORKERS ON THE HISTORICAL
RECORDS SURVEY OF THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION. THE PUB-
LICATION HEREUITH PRESENTED, AN INVENTORY OF THE ARCHIVES OF
PINA COUNTY, IS NUMBER 10 OF THE ARIZONA SERIES.

THE HISTORICAL QECORDS SURVEY WAS UNDERTAKEN IN THE
WINTER OF 1935-35 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING USEruL EMPLOY—
MENT TO NEEDY UNEUPLOYED HISTOPIANS, LAWYERS, TEACHERS, AND

. RESEARCH AND CLERICAL WORKERS. IN CARRYING OUT THIS OEJEC-

TIVE, THE PROJECT WAS ORGANIZED TO COUPILE INVENTORIES OF
HISTORICAL MATERIALS, PARTICULARLY THE UNPUBLISHED SOVERHHENT
DOCUMFNTS AND RECORDS WHICH ARE DASIC IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AND WHICH PROVIDE INVALUASLE DATA FOR STU-
DENTS OF POLITICAL, ECOHOHIC, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. THE ARCHIVAL
GUIDE HEREUITH PRESENTED IS INTENDED TO MEET THE PEQUIREHENTS
OF DAY—To-DAY ADMINISTRATION PY THE OFFICIALS OF THE COUNTY AND
ALSO THE NEEDS OF LAWYERS, BUSINESS MEN AND OTHER CITIZENS WHO
REQUIRE FACTS EROE THE PUBLIC RECORDS FOR THE PROPER CONDUCT OF
THEIR AFFAIRS. THE VOLUME IS SO DESIGNED THAT IT CAN OE USED
BY THE HISTORIAN IN HIS RESEARCH IN UNPPINTEO SOURCES IN THE
SAME WAY HE USES THE LIBRARY CARD CATALOG FOR PRINTED SOURCES.

THE INVENTORIES PRODUCED RY THE HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY
ATTEMPT TO Do HORE THAN GIVE HERELY A LIST OF RECORDS - THEY
ATTEHPT FURTHER TO SKETCH IN THE HISTORICAL DACKGROUND OE THE
COUNTY OR OTHER UNIT OF COVERNNENT, AND TO DESCRIBE PRECISELY
AND IN DETAIL THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SOVERNNENT
AGENCIES WHOSE RECORDS THEY LIST. THE COUNTY, TOWN, AND OTHER
LOCAL INVEMTGLIES FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TILL, UHEN COEPLETED,
CONSTITUTE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AS CELL AS A

, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LOCAL ARCHIVES.
THE SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF THE WORK OF THE HISTORICAL
‘ RECORDS SURVEY, EVEN IN A SINGLE COUNTY, NOULD NOT CE POSSIBLE

UITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS, HISTORICAL AND LEGAL
SPECIALISTS, AND VANY OTHER GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY. THEIR co—
OPERATION IS GRATEFULLY ACKNORLEDCED.

THE SURVEY WAS ORGANIZED AND HAS BEEN DIRECTED BY LUTHER
H. EVANS, AND OPERATES AS A NATION—WIDE PROJECT IN THE DIVISION
OF WO“EN'S AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS, OF UHICH MRS. ELLEN 3.
WOODWA D, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, IS IN CHARGE.

HARRY L. HOPKINS ‘
ADMINISTRATOR
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PREFACE

THE SURVEY OF STATE AND LOCAL HISTORICAL RECORDS, KNOWN
BY SHORT TITLE AS THE HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY, IS A NATION-
WIDE UNDERTAKING INITIATED IN JANUARY 1936 AS A PART OF
FEDERAL PROJECT NO. 1. THE SURVEY IN ARIZONA BEGAN OPERATIONS
IN MARCH 1936 UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION 0F ROSS SANTEE,
STATE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT, AND UNDER TECH-
NICAL SUPERVISION OF ESTELLE LUTRELL, ASSISTANT STATE SUPER-
VISOR. IN OCTOBER 1936 THE SURVEY BECAME AN INDEPENDENT UNIT,
OF WHICH ESTELLE LUTRELL WAS APPOINTED STATE DIRECTOR, CUT IT
CONTINUED TO OPERATE AS A PART OF THE NATION-WIDE SURVEY.

IN ARIZONA THE SURVEY HAS AS ITS OBJECTIVE THE PREPARA-
TION AND PUBLICATION OF COMPLETE INVENTORIES OF THE RECORDS OF
THE STATE AND ITS COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERN—
MENTAL UNITS. THE INVENTORIES CONTAIN ENTRIES FOR THE EXTANT
RECORDS OF PUBLIC OFFICES FORMING THE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZA-
TION. A SECTION IN THE INVENTORY IS DEVOTED To EACH OFFICE,
AND IN IT ARE LISTED DY SUBJECT THE ENTRIES FOR RECORDS OF THAT
OFFICE. EACH ENTRY GIVES INFORMATION AS TO EXACT OR ASSIGNED
TITLE OF THE RECORD, ITS LIMITING DATES, QUANTITY, LABELING,
CONTENTS, ARRANGEMENT, INDEXING, METHOD OF RECORDING, CONDITION
OF RECORD, SIZE, LOCATION OF THE RECORD IN THE COURTHOUSE, OR
OTHER DEPOSITORY, AND CROSS REFERENCES To OTHER ENTRIES BY
THEIR NUMBERS. IN THE INDEX TO THE INVENTORY, RECORD ENTRIES
ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, WITH CROSS REFERENCES. PRECEDING
THE RECORD ENTRIES FOR EACH OFFICE IS A BRIEF ESSAY ON THE HIS—
TORY, FUNCTIONS AND RECORDS OF THE OFFICE, BASED UPON CONSTITU—
TIONAL AND STATUTORY AUTHORITY, THE RECORDS THEMSELVES, AND
OTHER SOURCES.

THE IEyENTORYrgF COUNTY ARCHIVES OF ARIZONA, WHEN COM-
PLETED, WILL FORM A SERIES IN—EgrngFASF EEUET7-INVENTORY BEARS
A SEPARATE NUMBER. THE UNITS OF THE SERIES ARE NUMBERED AC-

‘ CORDINC TO THE RESPECTIVE POSITION OF THE COUNTY IN AN ALPHA-
BETICAL LIST OF THE COUNTIES. IN THIS SERIES, THE PIMA COUNTY
INVENTORY, HEREWITH PRESENTED, IS NO. 10. THE INVENTORIES OF
THE STATE ARCHIVES AND MUNICIPAL AND OTHER LOCAL RECORDS WILL
CONSTITUTE SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS.

LISTING OF PIMA COUNTY RECORDS BY THE SURVEY WAS DEGUN IN

MARCH AND COMPLETED IN MAY 1936. THE COUNTY WAS REOPENED FOR
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND RE-CHECKING FROM JANUARY To APRIL 1938.
IN THE COURSE OF THE SURVEY THE OFFICIALS OF PIMA COUNTY WERE
HELPFUL AND COOPERATIVE. APPRECIATION FOR VALUABLE ASSISTANCE
IS GRATEFULLY EXTENDED TO THEM, TO ALL OFFICIALS OF THE WORKS
PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION IN ARIZONA, AND TO MR. SANTEE AND THE
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT. THE SURVEY IS ALSO INDEBTED TO DR. ,'
RUFUS KAY WYLLYS, ARIZONA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TE PE, FOR

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PREFACE VI
READING THE HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FINA COUNTY AND GIVING AD-
VICE CONCERNING IT.

THE VARIOUS UNITS OF THE INVENTORY OF COUNTY ARCHIVES OF
ARIZONA WILL BE ISSUED IN NIMEOORAPH FORM FOR FREE DISTRIBU—
TION TO STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
IN ARIZONA, AND TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF LIBRARIES AND GOVERN-
MENTAL AGENCIES OUTSIDE THE STATE. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
CONCERNING PARTICULAR UNITS OF THE INVENTORY SHOULD BE ADP
DRESSED TO THE STATE DIRECTOR.

FROM DECEMBER TO APRIL 1938, LOUISE R. HORTON, COUNTY
PROJECTS SUPERVISOR OF THE DIVISION OF WOMEN'S AND PROFESSIONAL
PROJECTS, TEMPORARILY EXERCISED ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION OF THE
SURVEY IN ARIZONA. THE PRESENT STATE DIRECTOR, WHO wAS FORMERLY
EDITOR, WAS APPOINTED APRIL 15, 1938.

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SIDNEY KARTUS
STATE DIRECTOR
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
MAY 1, 1938
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A, PIMA COUNTY AND ITS RECORDS SYSTEM
PAGE
1. HISTORICAL SKETCH . . a . . . . 3
MAP OF PIMA COUNTY . . . . . OPPOSITE 3
2. GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION AND RECORDS SYSTEM . . 6
CHART OF GOVERNMENT . . . . . . 18
3, HOUSING, CARE, AND ACCESSIBILITY OF THE RECORDS . 19
4. ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES . . 20
B. COUNTY OFFICES AND THEIR RECORDS
I. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS . . d . . . . 23
PROCEEDINGS. ACCOUNTS. EXPENDITURES: ORDERS AND
BIDS; DEMANDS; WARRANTS. COUNTY OFFICIALS’ REPORTS.
BONDS. AUDIT. TAXATION. ROADS AND RAILROADS.
COUNTY HIGHWAY COMMISSION. ELECTIONS. TOWNS AND
VILLAGES. REPORT OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. COUNTY
PROPERTY. CORRESPONDENCE. MAP. MISCELLANEOUS.
II. RECORDER . . . . . . . . . 37
BLOTTER. REAL PROPERTY: LAND CLAIMS AND DEEDS;
LEASES; MINING CLAIMS AND DEEDS; WATER RIGHTS; MORT—
GAGES; AGREEMENTS; LIENS; LIS PENDENS; UUDGMENTS
AND ORDERS; ATTACHMENTS, EXECUTIDNS AND SALES; TAX
SALES, REDEMPTIONS, AND EXEMPTIONS; INHERITANCE TAX;
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. PERSONAL PROPERTY; CHATTEL
MORTGAGES; SALES; LIVESTOCK. BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
AND GRANTS OF AUTHORITY: INCORPORATIONS; PARTNER-
SHIPS; POWER OF ATTORNEY; SOLE TRADER. CERTIFICATES,
LICENSES AND DIPLOMAS. VITAL STATISTICS. REGISTRA—
TION OF ELECTORS; PRECINCT MAPS; REGISTRATIDNS;
CANCELLATIONS; MISCELLANEOUS. OFFICIAL BONDS AND
APPOINTMENTS. NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE ADMINISTRA-
TION: FEES; BANK DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS; CORRES-
PONDENCE. MAPS AND PLATS. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS.
III. DISTRICT COURT . . . . . . . . 72
. IV. PROBATE COURT . . . . . . . . 73
PROBATE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
V. COUNTY COURT . . . . . . . . 78
VI. SUPERIOR COURT . . . . . . . . 79
CIVIL: CASE FILES; CALENDAR; REGISTER OF ACTIONS;
UUDGMENTS; DOCKETS. CRIMINAL. PROBATE: INDEX;
CASES; MINUTES; REGISTER; DOCKET; TESTAMENTARY REC-
ORDS; ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES. INSANITY. JUVEN—
ILE. COURT COMMISSIONER. MARRIAGE. NOTARIAL COM-
MISSIONS AND BONDS. OATHS AND APPOINTMENTS. TOWN—
SITES. NATURALIZATION. OPTOMETRY REGISTER. BUS—
INESS AND ADMINISTRATION OF OFFICE: RECEIPTS AND
DISBURSEMENTS; COURT EXPENSE; BANK DEPOSITS AND WITH- ,
ORAWALS; CORRESPONDENCE; MISCELLANEOUS. JURY. WIT-
NESSES. PIONEERS' HOME APPLICATIONS. ATTORNEYS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
VII. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE . . . . . . . 97
CIVIL. CRIMINAL. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.
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VIII. COUNTY ATTORNEY . . . . . . 102
IX. JUVENILE PROBATION OFFICER . . . . 103
_ x. CORONER . . . . . . . . 106
XI. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR . . . . . 107
XII. SHERIFF . . . . . . . . 109
SERVICE OF PROCESS. LICENSES. PRISONERS.
IDENTIFICATION. MOTOR VEHICLES. SALES OF ESTRAYS.
OFFICE ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTS.
XIII. CONSTABLE . . . . . . . 114
XIV. ASSESSOR . . . . . . . 116
ASSESSMENTS: TRACT BOOK; REAL PROPERTY; PER-
SONAL PROPERTY. PROPERTY TRANSFERS AND VALUA—
TIONs. TAx EXEMPTIONS. RECEIPTS AND REPORTS.
MAPS AND PLATS. CORRESPONDENCE. MISCELLANEOUS.
XV. BOARD OF EQUALIzATION . . . . . 122
XVI. TAX COLLECTOR . . . . . . 124
ASSESSMENTS. EXEMPTIONS. COLLECTIONS. BACK
TAXES. TAx SALES.
XVII. AGENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION OF STATE HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT . . . . . . . 130
REGISTRATION AND LICENSES. REPORTS AND RE-
CEIPTS.
XVIII. TREASURER . . . . . . . 132
ACCOUNTS. WARRANTS. COUNTY OFFICIALS' REPORTS.
BONDS AND COUPONS. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION AND
REPORTS. CORRESPONDENCE. MISCELLANEOUS.
XIX. SCHOOL SUPERINTENOENT . . . . . 138
REPORTS. ACCOUNTS. SCHOOL DISTRICTS. TRUSTEES.
TEACHERS. PUPILS. BOOKS. CORRESPONDENCE. MIS-
CELLANEOUS.
xx. COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH . . . . . 1M7
XXI. COUNTY PHYSICIAN . . . . . . 150
CLINIC. DISPENSARY.
'5 XXII. SUPERINTENOENT OF COUNTY HOSPITAL . . . 152
XXIII. LOCAL REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS . . 152
‘ XXIV. COUNTY OLD ACE PENSION COMMISSION . . . 15D
XXV. COUNTY BOARD OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC WELFARE 155
CASE FILES. OLD AGE ASSISTANCE. PREVENTORIUM.
' PLACEMENT DEPARTMENT.
XXVI. SURVEYOR . . . . . . . . 159
XXVII. ROAD OVERSEER . . . . . . . 160
- XXVIII. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT CF ROADS . . . 160
XXIX. COUNTY ENGINEER . . . . . . 161
v HIGHWAY DEDICATIONS. MAPS AND PLATS. DRAWINGS.
TIME BOOKS.
xxx. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION . . . . 163
XXXI. COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT . . . . 163
XXXII. HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT . . . . 166
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEx . . . . . 167
INDEx . . . . . . . . 179
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ERY AND EXPLORATION IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
AND BY OCCUPATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH. THEY EE-
CANE PART OF MEXICO IN 1821 SY HER WAR OF INDEPENDENCE WITH
SPAIN, AND OF THE UNITED STATES BY THE GADSDEN PURCHASE FROm
MEXICO PROCLAIMED IN 1854.
PIMA COUNTY INCLUDED ALL OF ARIZONA SOUTH OF THE GILA
RIVER, NORTH OF THE NEXICAN BOUNDARY AND EAST OF YUMA COUNTY,
OR NEARLY ALL OF THE GADSDEN PURCHASE. TUCSON HAS ALWAYS
BEEN THE COUNTY SEAT. BEFORE 1854 MOST OF FINA COUNTY, AS
ORIGINALLY FORMED, AND ALL OF THE COUNTY AS IT NOW EXISTS,
' HAD SEEN PART OF PIMERIA ALTA, NORTHERN PORTION OF SONORA UN-
DER SPAIN AND MEXICO. TUCSON WAS A PRESIDIO ON THE APACHE
' FRONTIER AND THE PRINCIPAL SETTLEMEHL ABOVE THE PRESENT
SONORA LINE, IN PIMERLA ALTA. HO SETTLEMENTS EXISTED PRIOR
TO 1854 IN WHAT IS NOW ARIZONA NORTH OF THE GILA RIVER, OR DE—
YOND PIMERIA ALTA. THE REGION WAS NAMED FOR THE PIHA INDIANS
NATIVE TO IT. PIMA COUNTY'S NAHE HAS THE SAME ORIGIN. THE
NAME TUCSON IS DERIVED FROM THE PIMAN "SLUYKoSDN", MEANING
. DARK OR BROWN SPRING.
DE NIZA PROBABLY CAME To THIS REGION IN 1539. CORONADO
' AND HIS ARMY CROSSED IT IN 1540. A CENTURY AND A HALF LATER
THE JESUIT, FATHER KINO, EXTENDED HIS EXPLORATIONS AND THE
. MISSION FIELD FROM PIMERIA BAJA NORTHWARD TO THE GILA, MAK—
ING HIS FIRST ENTRADA ACHQSS THE MODERN SONORA LINE IN 1691.
. IN 1692 KIND ADDRESSED 800 SOBAIPURI INDIANS AND SAPTIZED
»-‘ SOME OF THEIR CHILDREN AT A LARGE RANCHERTA WHICH HE NAMED
SAN XAVIER DEL BAC. IN THE VICINITY OF THIS RANCHERIA, KIND,
IN 1700, LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NOTED NISSION OF THE SAME
- NAME. SAN XAVIER DEL BAC, NINE MILES FROM TUCSON, RECEIVED
ITS FIRST PERMANENT MISSIONARY IN 1701, AND BECAME THE GREAT-
EST MISSION IN WHAT IS NOW ARIZONA. IT IS STILL MAINTAINED; g
NOW BY THE FRANCISCAN ORDER. FOR PROTECTION AGAINST THE IN-
DIANS, A PRESIDIO WAS ESTABLISHED AT TUSAC IN 1752, WHICH WAS
> MOVED ABOUT 1776 SOME FIFTY MILES NORTH TO THE PUESLITO DE
. . SAN AGUSTIN DEL TUCSON ON THE SANTA CRUZ RIVER. THE PRESIDIO
- '1 WAS LATER MOVED A SHORT DISTANCE TO THE SITE WHERE IN MODERN
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V TUCSON THE COURTHOUSE Now STANDS, AND THERE AN ADOBE PUEDLO
»' AND CHURCH, AND A WALL TWELVE FEET HIGH WITH TOWERS AND FIRING
’ PLATFORM FOR DEFENSE, WERE BUILT.
MEXICO OVERTHREW SPANISH RULE IN 1821, BUT CY 1846 WAS IN
A WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES INVOLVING MEXICO’S NORTHERN POS-
' SESSIONS. FOLLOWING GENERAL KEARNIY TO CALIFORNIA, AFTER THE
CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO, LIEUTENANT COLONEL COOKE WITH THE
NORNON SATTALION TOOK TUCSON IN DECEMBER 1846, THE MEXICAN GAR~
v RISON ASANDONINC THE PRESIDIO. AFTER RATIFICATION OF THE GADS-
DEN PURCHASE, CONGRESS ON AUGUST 4, 1854, ATTACHED THE AREA
ACQUIRED THERESY To NEW HEX|CO, WHICH BY ACT OF ITS LEGISLA—
TUNE ON JANUARY 18, 1855, ATTACHED IT TO DONA ANA COUNTY. THE
UNITED STATES EFFECTED MILITARY POSSESSION OF THE PURCHASE ON
MARCH 10, 1856, BY STATIONINC FOUR COMPANIES OF DRAGOONS IN

, TUCSON. IN 1858—60 THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND STAGE LINE PASSED

THROUGH TUCSON, AND AMERICAN POPULATION INCREASED To SEVERAL

1 THOUSANDS. CHARLES D. POSTON, OF TUSAC, IN 1856 WAS APPOINTED
DEPUTY CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT OF DONA ANA COUNTY, AND
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACTED AT TUCSON AND ELSEWHERE. THE SET-
TLERS FROM THE FIRST, HOWEVER, WERE DISSATISFIED WITH SEING .
JOINED TO DISTANT NEW MEXICO. A CONVENTION AT TUCSON IN 1856
NENORIALIZED CONGRESS FOR ORGANIZATION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ARIZONA AND ELECTED A DELEGATE TO CONGRESS, WHO WAS NOT SEATED.
IN 1860 ANOTHER CONVENTION AT TUCSON FORNED A PROVISIONAL GOV-
ERNMENT TO EXIST UNTIL CREATION OF SUCH A TERRITOLY, ADOPTED A
CONSTITUTION AND LAWS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, ALD LAID OUT JUDICIAL
DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THIS CONVENTION

» WERE PRINTED AT TUCSON IN THE FIRST PANPHLET PUBLISHED IN WHAT
IS TODAY ARIZONA. THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE IN 1860 CREATED
FROM THE WESTERN PORTION OF DONA ANA COUNTY A NEW COUNTY,
WHICH IT NANED ARIZONA, WITH TUCSON AS THE COUNTY SEAT. BUT
THIS ACT WENT UNNOTICED AND WAS REPEALED TWO YEARS LATER, AND
THE AREA RESTORED TO DONA ANA COUNTY, OF WHICH IT RENAINED A
PART UNTIL 1863. ANOTHER CONVENTION MET IN TUCSON IN 1861,
AND SENTINENT BEING FOR THE SOUTH, ELECTED A DELEGATE TO THE

' CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. IN FEBRUARY 1862, CAPTAIN HUNTER WITH
A FORCE OF TEXANS OCCUPIED TUCSON FOR THE CONFEDERACY. IT
WAS REGAINED, HOWEVER, IN MAY RY THE FIRST CALIFORNIA VOLUN-
TEERS, UNDER COLONEL CARLETON, HUNTER RETIRING TO THE RIO
CRANDE WITHOUT OPPOSITION. ON JUNE 8, AT TUCSON, CARLETON
PROCLAINED HIMSELF NILITARY GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA UNTIL SUCH
TIUE AS A CIVIL GOVERNMENT COULD SE ESTASLISHED.

' CONGRESS PASSED THE ACT CREATING THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
IN FEBRUARY 1863. PURSUANT TO THIS ACT, THE GOVERNOR DY PROC-
LANATION ESTABLISHED A TEMPORARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNDER THREE
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS, WHICH EXISTED FROM APRIL THROUGH DECEMBER
1864. AFTER THE FIRST ASSENSLY PROVIDED FOR CREATION OF
COUNTIES AND THEIR GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, THE GOVERNOR ‘
NANED THE FOLLOWING FIRST OFFICIALS OF PIMA COUNTY, To TAKE OF— ‘

, FICE JANUARY 1, 1865: CHARLES TRUNDULL HAYDEN, PROBATE JUDGE;

. GREGORY P. HARTE, COUNTY RECORDER; HILL OE ARNITTE, SHERIFF;

I JOHN C. CAPRON, COUNTY TREASURER. WILLIAM T. HOWELL WAS NAHED

- . JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT TO BE HELD IN TUCSON.
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HISTORICAL SKETCH (FIRST ENTRY, P. 28)
THE PROBATE JUDGE, COUNTY RECORDER AND SHERIFF CONSTITUTED
THE FIRST BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, WHICH HELD ITS FIRST '
MEETING ON FEBRUARY 1, 1865, IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE AT
TUCSON. HERE THE ADOBE BUILDINGS HAD SPREAD OUTSIDE THE MIL-
ITARY WALL, THROUGH WHICH STREETS HAD BEEN CUT. TUCSON, ON
THE TRADE ROUTE BETWEEN THE EAST, CALIFORNIA AND SONORA, SERVED
AS MILITARY HEADQUARTERS FOR THE TERRITORY, AND CAPITAL DURING
1866—77. IT WAS REACHED BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD IN
1880.
CREATION OF NEW COUNTIES BY THE LEGISLATURE GREATLY RE-
DUCED THE ORIGINAL AREA OF PIMA COUNTY. PORTIONS OF IT WERE
INCLUDED IN MARICOPA AND PINAL COUNTIES, ON THE NORTH, BE— ,
TWEEN 1873 AND 1877; IN GRAHAM AND COCHISE, ON THE EAST, IN
1881; AND IN SANTA CRUZ, ON THE SOUTHEAST, IN 1899. A COURT ’
RULING IN 1928 RESTORED TO MARICOPA A SMALL AREA CLAIMED BY
PIMA. PIMA COUNTY NOW COVERS 9,505 SQUARE MILES. '
THE FIRST COUNTY OFFICIALS WERE HOUSED IN RENTED BUILD- ,
INCS. IN 1868 A STONE—AND—ADOBE COURTHOUSE AND JAIL WAS DUILT I 7} ’
IN THE MILITARY PLAZA. ADDITIONAL LAND WAS SOUGHT AND CONTRACT
LET FOR A NEW BUILDING IN 1881. THE SITE WAS FURTHER EXTENDED
IN 1928 FOR THE ERECTION OF THE PRESENT COURTHOUSE, THE SOUTH '~ .
WALL OF WHICH ADJOINS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE OLD PRESIDIO
WALL.
FOR YEARS AFTER CREATION OF THE COUNTY, ITS SETTLEMENTS
WERE MARKED BY THE CUSTOMS, RELIGION AND FESTIVALS OF THE
SPANISH AND MEXICAN PEOPLE WHO WERE THE FIRST SETTLERS. SPAN—
ISH Is STILL SPOKEN BY THEIR DESCENDANTS. MINING OF HOH-.
FERROUS METALS, PRINCIPALLY COPPER IN RECENT YEARS, STOCK ‘
RANCHES, AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF IRRIGATION FARMING, SINCE SPAN— ,
ISH TIMES HAVE SEEN BASIC OCCUPATIONS. TUCSON, A CITY OF x
32,500 AND THE SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AND STATE MU—
SEUM, Is ALSO INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN AS A WINTER AND HEALTH RE- V
SORT, BECAUSE OF THE SUNSHINE AND DRY CLIMATE. MIGRATION TO I
THE SOUTHWEST FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY HAS AIDED THE ~
GROWTH OF THE COUNTY'S POPULATION FROM APPROXIMATELY 2,000 IN
1864 TO 17,007 IN 1880, TO 22,818 IN 1910, TO 55,776 IN 1930.
PIMA IS SECOND IN POPULATION AND SIXTH IN SIZE AMONG THE FOUR-
TEEN ARIZONA COUNTIES. 5
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRIMARY SOURCES :
ARIZONA REPORTS, VOL. 34, 1928—29. (PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF
ARIZONA SUPREME COURT. BANCROFT—WHITNEY 00., SAN FRANCISCO,
1930). :
CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1910, 1930. (UNITED STATES GCV- I
ERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE).
COMPILED LAWS OF NEW MEXICO, 1865, 1884.
HOWELL CODE, 1864, COMPILED BY WILLIAM T. HOWELL.
SECRETARY OF STATE OF ARIZONA, RECORO——ORGANTZING THE TERRITORY ‘
EE;ARIZOEAJ 1863. ~_-“ '
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,ffi GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION (FIRST ENTRY, P. 28)
. 'E AND RECORDS SYSTEM
III SESSION LAWS OF ARIZONA, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1881, 1899.
‘ m..STATES STATUTES AT LARG£, VOLS. 9—10, 12. ‘
. SECONDARY SOURCES
BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE, HISTORY OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO,
1530-1888. (THE HISTORY COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO, 1889).
I . BARNES, WILL 0., ARIZONA PLACE NAMES. (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA,
GENERAL BULLETIN N0. 2, 1935). /
BOLTON, HERDERT EUGENE, KINO'S HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PINERIA
ALTA. (ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY, CLEVELAND, 1919).
LOCKWOOD, FRANK C., AND PAGE, DONALD W., lg£§gN——THE OLD
PUEBLO. (MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, PHOENIX, ARIZONA, 1930).
WYLLYS, RUFUS KAY, PIONEER PADRE. (SOUTHWEST PRESS, DALLAS,
TEXAS, 1935).
2. GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION AND RECORDS SYSTEM
SPAIN AND MEXICO
ALTHOUGH THE SPANISH BY V540 HAD PENETRATED THE TERRI—
TORY WHICH LATER BECAME PIMA COUNTY, THEY DID NOT BEGIN TO
> SETTLE IT UNTIL THE END OF THE NExT CENTURY, WHEN IT HAS KNOWN
AS PART OF PIMERIA ALTA. LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL PROVISIONS OF
. SPANISH RULE To 1821, AND OF MEXICAN RULE FROM 1821 TO THE
GADSDEN PURCHASE IN 1854, EXERTED INFLUENCE ON EARLY COUNTY COV—
ERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION IN THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. IN MATTERS
AFFECTING UINING AND WATER RIGHTS, THE SUBSTANCE OF SUCH PRO-
VISIONS HAS BEEN RETAINED To THE PRESENT.
DONA ANA AND ARIZONA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO
‘ AFTER THE GADSDEN PURCHASE HAD BEEN PROCLAIMED, CONGRESS
(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, 1854, VOL. 10, P. 575) ADDED TO NEW
MEXICO THE AREA ACQUIRED THEREBY, WHICH INCLUDED THE LEGION
LATER ERECTED INTO PIMA COUNTY. IN 1855 THE NEW MEXICO LEG-
ISLATURE ATTACHED THE GADSDEN PURCHASE LANDS TO DONA ANA
- COUNTY (N. m. C. L., 1884, SEC. 277, APPROVED JANUARY 18, 1855).
‘ IN 1860 THE LEGISLATURE PASSED AN ACT CREATING, FROM THE WESTERN
_' PORTION OF DONA ANA COUNTY, A COUNTY WHICH IT NAMED ARIZONA
COUNTY, WITH TUCSON AS THE COUNTY SEAT. ARIZONA COUNTY DID NOT
FUNCTION GOING TO DISPLACEMENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR. THIS ACT WAS
REPEALED Two YEARS LATER (IBID., 1865, P. 278, APPROVED JANUARY
13: 1952), AND THE REGION RESTORED TO DORA ANA COUNTY (liflih’
7884, SEC. 267, APPROVED JANUARY 18, 1862), OF WHICH IT THERE-
AFTER REMAINED A PART UNTIL CREATION OF THE TERRITORY OF T
ARIZONA IN 1863. THE CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT OF DONA ANA '
COUNTY APPOINTED A DEPUTY WHO FUNCTIONED IN THIS REGION. THE
' DEPUTY ACTED IN THE CLERK'S CAPACITY AG Ex OFFICIO PUBLIC RE—
; CORDER OF THE COUNTY, KEEPING A SINGLE BOOK IN WHICH HE RE-
'f CORDED VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS (N. H. C. L. 1365, P. 618, SECS. 1,
.-H§ 2: APPROVED JAN. 1, 1856). 1 TRACE OF ARIZONA COUNTY APPEARS IN
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"} AND RECORDS SYSTEM
THIS COOK IN THE FORM OF AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT, IN 1861, BY A
NOTARY PUBLIC OF THAT COUNTY. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ALSO
ACTED IN THE REGION (BANCROFT, P. 504).
MILITARY DISTRICT OF WESTERN ARIZONA
- TUCSON WAS CONTROLLED BY SOUTHERN SYNPATHIZERS IN 1361,
AND DY CONFEDERATE TROOPS UNTIL MAY 1862, WHEN THE CALIFORNIA
CGLUHN ENTERED. MARTIAL LAW WAS DECLAPED IN JUNE. GENERAL
OLDER NO. 1, ISSUED FROM THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE MILITARY'DIS-
TRICT OF WESTERN ARIZONA AT TUCSON ON AUGUST 5, 1862, HADE THE
RECORDING OF LAND CLAIHS IN THAT VIGINITY A MILITARY REQUIRE—
MENT, AND NAMED A REGISTER (SIC) AND RECORDER. THIS OFFICIAL
KEPT A SINGLE BOOK IN WHICH HE RECORDED SUCH CLAIMS AND OTHER
. INSTHUHENTO, 1862-64. (SEE ENTRY 45).
, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IN THE ORGANIC ACT CREATING THE TERRITORY OF AFIZONA IN ‘
1863 (U. S. STATUTES AT LAEGE, VOL. 12, P. 664), CONGRESS PRO-
VIDED THAT POWERS, DUTIES AND TERHS OF OFFICIALS SHOULD BE THE
. SAME AS SET FORTH IN THE ORGANIC ACT OF NEW MEXICO PASSED IN
1850 (IDID., VOL. 9, P. 446) AND ACTS AHENDATOPY THEEETO, AND
CONTINJEE-IN FORCE ALL LEGISLATIVE ENACTHENTS OF THE TERRITORY
OF NEW DEXICO NOT IHCONSISTENT WITH THE ORGANIC ACT OF ARIZONA
UNTIL PEPEALED 0R AMENDED BY FUTURE LEGISLATION. PURSUANT TO
SUCH AUTHORITY, THE GOVERNOR BY PROCLAHATIONS OF APRIL 9 AND
11, 1864, ESTABLISHED A TEMPORARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOE ARIZONA
BY DIVIDING THE TERRITORY INTO THREE JUDICIAL DISTRICTS AND
‘ PROVIDING OFFICES THEREOF. THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTFICT CON—
SISTED OF THE SAME AREA WHICH THE FIRST ASSEUDLY IN THE FALL
OF THE YEAR ERECTED INTO PIMA COUNTY, EXCEPT THAT THE WESTERN
‘ OOUNDARY OF THE DISTRICT WAS ESTABLISHED AS 1140 WEST LONGI—
TUDE WHILE THAT OF THE COUNTY WAS 1130 20' (HOWELL CODE, 1864, 1
CH. 2, DEC. 1). (SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, figggig:
' ORGANIZING THE TERRITOQl_2£"A£Jz£fiA, PP. 20-22). THE FOLLOW~
ING OFFICES WERE PROVIDED FOR THE JUDICIAL DISTRICTS: PROBATE
JUDGE, CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, SHER-
IFF, ALCALDES (JUSTICES OF THE PEACE), AND CONSTABLES. THE
CLERK OF THE PROUATE COURT WAS EX OFFICIO RECORDER. ALL WERE
FILLED DY APPOINTMENT OF THE GOVERNOR, EXCEPT THE JUDGE OF THE
DISTRICT COURT, WHO WAS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT AND ASSIGNED
- TO THE DISTRICT BY THE GOVERNOR, AND WERE EHPOWERED AG UNDER
NEW MEXICO LAWS (N. M. C. L. 1865, WITH PROVISIONS FRON
KEARNEY CODE, PAHPHLET, 1846). THE PROBATE JUDGE, WHO IN NEW
MEXICO WAS ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE PREFECT, IN ADDITICH TO HIS
JUDICIAL DUTIES WAS THE LOCAL EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE AUTHOR-
'TY; AND ADMINISTERED THE FINANCIAL AFFAIES OF THE DISTRICT. w
THESE OFFICES WERE CONTINUED DY THE FIRST TERRITORIAL ASSEHDLY 3
OF ARIZONA, AND THEIR FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES. AND THOSE 3F OF—
FICES SUDSEQUENTLY CREATED, ARE DESCRIBED IN THE ESSAYS
‘ -: THEREON IN THIS LNLEEEEQ; THE JUDICIAL DISTRICTS FUNCTIONED
TO THE END OF DECEMBER 1864.
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COUNTY ORGANIZATION
THE FIRST TERRITORIAL ASSEMBLY, MEETING FROM SEPTEMBER 29
TO NOVEMBER 10, 1864, ADOPTED A MINING LAW, AND A GENERAL CODE
OF LAWS, CALLED THE HOWELL CODE. PROVISION WAS MADE IN THE
. CODE FOR THE "FORMATION AND RIGHTS OF COUNTIES", WHICH WERE ES-
TABLISHED AS BODIES CORPORATE AND POLITIC FOR THE FOLLOWING
PURPOSES: To SUE AND BE SUED; TO PURCHASE AND HOLD REAL AND
PERSONAL ESTATE FOR THE USE OF THE COUNTY; TO BORROW MONEY FOR
’ THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING AND REPAIRING COUNTY BUILDINGS, AND FOR
BUILDING OF BRIDGES; To MAKE ALL NECESSARY CONTRACTS, AND TO DO
ALL OTHER NECESSARY ACTS IN RELATION TO THE PROPERTY AND CON-
CERNS OF THE COUNTY (HOWELL CODE, P. 25, SEC. 3). THE FIRST
_ COUNTY OFFICIALS TOOK OFFICE JANUARY 1, 1865.
' CONGRESS PASSED THE ENABLING ACT IN 1910 (U. S. STATUTES
AT LARGE, 1910, CH. 310), AND ARIZONA ENTERED THE UNION OF
STATES IN 1912. THE STATE CONSTITUTION CONTINUED THE COUNTY AS
A BODY POLITIC AND CORPORATE WITH SIMILAR POWERS (CONST., ART.
T2, sec. 1).
OFFICES
COUNTY OFFICES CREATED BY THE FIRST ASSEUBLY WERE AS FOL-
LOWS: PROBATE JUDGE, SHERIFF AND RECORDER, WHO TOGETHER CON—
STITUTED THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AND JUSTICE OF THE
PEACE, CORONER, CONSTABLE AND TREASURER. THE PROBATE JUDGE
WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE RE-
CORDER WAS CLERK OF THE BOARD, AND ALSO EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE
PROBATE COURT. THE SHERIFF WAS EX OFFICIO ASSESSOR AND EX
OFFICIO TAX COLLECTOR. (HOWELL CODE, 1864, CH. 3-9). ALL
COUNTY OFFICES WERE ELECTIVE EXCEPT THAT OF PROBATE JUDGE, WHO
WAS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR (lEJBf’ P. 435). PIMA COUNTY
WAS CONSTITUTED THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT (L2i2:r CH. 44,
' P. 286). THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT CONTINUED TO BE AP—
POINTED BY THE PRESIDENT AND ASSIGNED TO THE DISTRICT BY THE
GOVERNOR AS BEFORE (1313., CH. 45, PART 3). THE TERRITORIAL
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR, ACTED AS PROSE—
CUTING ATTORNEY IN THE DISTRICT COURTS (LELBL’ CH. 16, SEC. 2).
. ADMINISTRATIVE
' THE OFFICE OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WAS THE EXEc—
UTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY, AND ADMINISTERED
: ITS FINANCIAL AFFAIRS (1313., CH. 9). IN 1865 THIS BOARD WAS
ABOLISHED. ITS DIRECT SUCCESSOR IN FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES WAS
' ' THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, CONSISTING OF THREE ELECTIVE MEUBERS
INDEPENDENT OF ANY OTHER OFFICE (L. 1865, P. 24, SEC. 1). THE N
‘ BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS CONTINUED To THE PRESENT WITHOUT MA-
TERIAL CHANGE BY SUBSEQUENT STATUTES AND THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
[a COUNTIES EXERCISE THEIR POWERS ONLY THROUGH THE BOARD OF SUPER-
Ui VISORS (R. C. 1928, PARS. 760-761). THE BOARD EXERCISES GENERAL
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(C AND RECORDS SYSTEM
’ , SUPERVISION OVER ALL OTHER COUNTY OFFICES OTHER THAN THOSE ‘
pERTATNTNG TO THE SUPERIOR COURT; TABULATES AND CANVASSES
' ELECTION RETURNS; NANAGES THE COUNTY FINANCES; SUPERVISES CON-
STRUCTION 0F ROADS AND HIGHWAYS, COUNTY INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC
BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY; UNDER STATUTORY REGULATIONS FIXES THE
. RATE AND SUPERVISES COLLECTION OF TAXES; DEN