Excerpt from Coxe Publication Fund, Vol. 14: Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society; For the Year 1915 The sketch was practically finished, as far as the manu scripts were concerned, with only some points to elucidate and annotate, chiefly with regard to the years in Congress, when the work fell to my hands. The difficulties of tracing out the history of a Bill through 'the various official publications of the House in early days, with their omissions, lack of complete indices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.