Part 1 describes the care and use of county archives, and the functions of clerk, recorder, and school and fiscal officials. Part 2 details the types of records and locations in each county.

Volumes include: Statutory record.

Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and ...