COPYRIGHTED, 1892, BY DORUS R. HATCH. COPYRIGHTED, 1901, BY THE CENTENNIAL SCHOOL SUPPLY CO. COPYRIGHTED, 1904, BY THE CENTENNIAL SCHOOL SUPPLY CO. PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION. T HIS work aims to give only a brief sketch of the history of Colorado with the principal facts of the machinery of our State Government. The desire has been to be comprehensive and reliable and also brief. Since its first publication in 1892 it has been thoroughly revised, whenever important changes or additions have been made by acts of the General Assembly. The present edition includes the legislative changes enacted by the Fourteenth General Assembly, including the Twentieth Amendment. No questions still in dispute are, of course, considered. In the work of revision great care has been taken to have all statements in harmony with the facts at this date, but the publishers will be grateful to have pointed out to them any errors which may have crept into the text. It is recommended that all copies of former editions now in use in our schools be replaced by the present edition, as many statements found in the previous editions are necessarily incorrect at this time and it is important that all texts of this character in use be as authoritative as possible. Denver, February, 1904. THE PUBLISHERS. 133822 |