Enabling Act for State of Utah Now Online

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July 27, 2012

Enabling Act for State of Utah Now Online

As part of the records of the 1895 Constitutional Convention, a high-resolution digital copy of the Federal Enabling Act that led to Utah becoming a state is now online in the Utah Digital Archives. In July 1894, the U.S. Congress enacted a law to enable the territory of Utah to be admitted into the Union as a state. The act
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