1836 Meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory
The Seventh Michigan Territorial Council,[1]
also known as the Rump Council, was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory in January 1836, during the term of Acting Governor John S. Horner. At the time, most of Michigan Territory was awaiting admission to the union as the state of Michigan and had already seated its new state legislature. This was the final session of the Council and consisted only of members from the "contingent remainder" or "rump territory"—the remaining counties that formed the new Wisconsin Territory later that year.[2][3]
- ^ The council styled itself as the Seventh Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, although the area over which it had jurisdiction was beginning to be called—unofficially—the territory of Wisconsin, and contemporary newspaper reports referred to it as the Legislative Council of Wisconsin. (Schafer 1920, pp. 64, 67)
- ^ Schafer 1920, pp. 63–64
- ^ Lorenzsonn 2010, p. 26