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 The Territory of Colorado 65 far as perhaps to cease to be a virtue. He arrived in Denver at his new post on May 29, 1861,^ and within a few days was ready to take charge of the territory and to receive from the hands of Governor Steele- such authority as remained in the provisional terri- tory of Jefferson. Frederic L. Paxson. 'Hall, I. 266; Fossett, io6. - Steele issued a proclamation recommending the citizens to remain " loyal and true " to the federal government on May 23, Rocky Mountain Mews, May 29, 1861. He handed over the government to Gilpin on June 6. Smiley, 321, 322. AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XII. — 5.