Australian honours system support, but Australian Labor Party (ALP) governments, both national and state, ceased making recommendations for Imperial awards – in particular, appointments to the Order of the British Empire mainly after 1972. During the Second World War, the Governor-General, on the advice of wartime Labor governments, made recommendations for gallantry awards, including eleven for the Victoria Cross. Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were for officers and men engaged in operational areas. In 1975, the ALP (which had been out of power federally from 1949 until 1972) created the Australian Honours System. Recommendations were processed centrally, but State Governors
Judicial System of the State of Deseret property was restored to its rightful owner. The State of Deseret Supreme Court ordered the first recorded execution in the settlement that would become Utah: Patsowits, a Ute Indian, was convicted of the murder of an emigrant in Sanpete Valley. Patsowits was executed by garroting, after receiving his last religious rites from Chaplain John Kay and Sheriff James Ferguson. Judicial System of the State of Deseret The Judicial System of the State of Deseret was the legal framework for the provisional government of the proposed State of Deseret. It existed for only two years, when it was outmoded by the