17th Utah Territorial Legislature
Session
The legislative session convened on January 13, 1868, at the State House in Salt Lake City, and ended on February 25, 1868.{{cite news |title=Legislative |newspaper=Deseret News |date=January 15, 1868 |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2600637 |page=1 |access-date = March 10, 2024}}{{cite news |title=The Past Session |newspaper=Deseret News |date=February 26, 1868 |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2601750 |page=5 |access-date=March 10, 2024}}
Members
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! County ! Office ! Notes |
|---|
| colspan=8 | Territorial Council: |
| Ezra T. Benson
| Cache | | |
| Thomas Callister
| Millard | | |
| Albert Carrington
| Salt Lake | | |
| Hector C. Haight
| Davis | | |
| Leonard E. Harrington
| Utah | | |
| Orson Hyde
| Sanpete | | |
| Aaron Johnson
| Utah | | |
| George A. Smith
| Iron | President | |
| Abraham O. Smoot
| Salt Lake | | |
| Erastus Snow
| Washington | | |
| Lorenzo Snow
| Weber | | |
| Wilford Woodruff
| Salt Lake | | |
| Joseph A. Young
| Salt Lake | | |
| colspan=8 | Territorial House of Representatives: |
| Reddick N. Allred
| Sanpete | | |
| William W. Cluff
| Summit/Green River | | |
| David Evans
| Utah | | |
| Lorin Farr
| Weber | | |
| Jacob Gates
| Washington | | |
| Thomas H. Giles
| Wasatch | | Elected December 9, 1867{{cite news |title=Proclamation |newspaper=Deseret News |date=November 20, 1867 |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2600317 |page=8 |access-date=March 10, 2024}} |
| Christopher Layton
| Davis | | |
| Francis M. Lyman
| Millard | | |
| Peter Maughan
| Cache | | |
| Philemon C. Merrill
| Davis | | |
| Jonathan Midgley
| Juab | | |
| Joseph S. Murdock
| Wasatch | |
| William B. Pace
| Utah | |
| Orson Pratt
| Salt Lake | | |
| Enoch Reese
| Salt Lake | | |
| Charles C. Rich
| Richland | | |
| Albert P. Rockwood
| Salt Lake | | |
| James Henry Rollins
| Beaver | | |
| John Rowberry
| Tooele | | |
| Joseph F. Smith
| Salt Lake | | |
| Silas S. Smith
| Iron | | |
| George Taylor
| Sanpete | | |
| John Taylor
| Salt Lake | Speaker | |
| Albert K. Thurber
| Utah | | |
| Chauncey W. West
| Weber | | |
| Jonathan C. Wright
| Box Elder | | |
| Brigham Young Jr.
| Salt Lake | | |
Major Legislation
=Appropriations=
- Territorial Appropriation Bill (February 21, 1868)
=Criminal Laws=
- An Act concerning Libel (February 21, 1868)
=Incorporations of Cities and Counties=
- An Act changing the name of Richland County to Rich County (January 29, 1868)*
- An Act changing the name of Great Salt Lake City and Great Salt Lake County (January 29, 1868)
- An Act to incorporate Deseret City, in Millard County (February 3, 1868)
- An Act incorporating the City of Smithfield, in Cache County (February 6, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Richmond City, in Cache County (February 6, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Kaysville City, in Davis County (February 13, 1868)
- An Act incorporating the City of Morgan, in Morgan County (February 13, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Parowan City, in Iron County (February 13, 1868)
- An Act incorporating the City of Ephraim, in Sanpete County (February 14, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Cedar City, in Iron County (February 18, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Franklin City, in Cache County (February 19, 1868)
- An Act changing the County Seat of Morgan County (February 19, 1868)
- An Act incorporating Mount Pleasant, in Sanpete County (February 20, 1868)
- An Act amending the Charters of the Incorporated Cities in the Territory of Utah (February 21, 1868)