214 



UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



The thirteenth assembly was induced by the needs of the city of 

 Denver to prepare a constitutional amendment providing a special 

 type of government for counties of more than seventy thousand inhabi- 

 tants, and a statute erecting the city and county of Denver as coterminous 



5edtjnick 



Phillip} 



Yuma 



Map XV. — 1901 — Thirteenth Assembly. 



divisions/ It provided also that upon the acceptance of this amend- 

 ment on November 4, 1902, the remainder of Arapahoe county should 

 become Adams and South Arapahoe.^ Two years later the fourteenth 

 assembly cut away from the cumbersome Adams county, and gave 

 vigor to the notion of the necessity of the railroad to county life 

 by adding portions of the discarded Adams to Washington and 

 Yuma.^ 



■ Act of March 18, igoi {Sess. Laws, 1901, p. 97; David A. Mills, Legislative Manual, State of 

 Colorado, 1903, p. 267). 



' Acts of April 15, 1901 {Sess. Laws, 1901, pp. 133, 138). 

 J Acts of April 10, 1903 {Sess. Laws, 1903, pp. 169, 173). 



