THE PROPOSED TERRITORY OF ARIZONA CHARTER 1857

That the highways of the Territory are stained with the blood of citizens of the United States, shed by Indians and by public marauders, who commit their crimes in open day, knowing there is no law to restrain and no magistrate to arrest them. That this Territory, under a separate organization, would attract a large population and become immediately developed: That our soil has been stained with the blood of American citizens, shed by Mexican hands, in an armed invasion of our Territory near Sonoita, and that there is no civil magistrate or officer here to even protest against such an outrage. That throughout their whole Territory, , there is no Court of Record, and no redress except that inefficiently administered in a Justice's Court, for civil injuries or crimes.