Colorado Historical Documents
Territorial Documents
February 28, 1861:
An Act to Provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Colorado
March 2, 1863:
An Act to Amend an Act to Provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Colorado
Statehood Documents
December 10, 1866:
Petition of Citizens of Colorado Praying the Admission of That Territory into the Union as a State, 39th Congress, 2d session, Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 3.January 29, 1867:
Message from the President of the United States returning the bill (S.462) "to admit the State of Colorado into the Union" with his objections thereto, 39th Congress, 2d session, Senate Executive Document No. 7.February 13, 1867:
Telegraphic Despatch from Colorado Transmitting the resolutions of a mass meeting, held February 12, on the subject of admitting that Territory into the union, 39th Congress, 2d session, House Miscellaneous Document No. 55.February 20, 1867:
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in Favor of the passage of the bill (S.462) to admit the State of Colorado into the Union..., 39th Congress, 2d session, Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 35.February 12, 1868:
Senate Report No. 45 - 40th Congress, 2d session, to accompany bill S.11, to admit the State of Colorado into the Union.June 17, 1868:
Senate Report No. 45, pt. 2 - 40th Congress, 2d session, to accompany bill S.11.May 28, 1874:
House Report No. 619 - Admission of Colorado as a State, 43d Congress, 1st session, to accompany bill H. R. 435.
Other Important Documents
February 14, 1867 - Sand Creek Massacre, 39th Congress, 2d session, Senate Executive Document No. 26, Report of the Secretary of War Communicating....a copy of the evidence taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, by a military commission, ordered to inquire into the Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864. [in progress]
Constitution of the State of Colorado (current)