Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-10-22
VOL. XXVu.---NO. 20.

citizens Of the United States. and to take an oath to sup
port the Constitution thereof. The first Senate is 10
consist OF seventeen mcmbers. and the House of thirty
five members.
IN the Executive Department provision il made far
the election Of Governor, Lieutenant Governor. Secre-
,ary Of State. Auditor # Public Accounts and Treasurer
The judicial power IS vested ina Supreme Courl and sncl,
'nleiiof tribunals as the Legislature shall establish. A
Chief Justice and two Associates compose the Supreme
Court.
The fifth article provides for the election Of the Off.
GERS named In the Constitution, on the frs Monday of
May, tlasl } and fmr a vote for or against the adoption of
me 'onsiltuliot, and II n majority Of all the legal votes
shall be IN favor Of iis adoption, the same shall tske effect
from and after said eleclion.o
In tho Declaration Of Rights. il is declared ",ha, all
men have n natural and inalieuable right to worship God
according TO tho dictates At their own copsciences, and
The General Assembly shall make no law respecting M
establishment of religion, or prohibiting tho free exercise
thereof, OF disturbing any person in his religious wor-
ship or sentiments Prorided. he does MT disturb
the public peace no, ob,Iruct others in their religious wor-
ship
This Constitution wns adopted on tho 10Th Marcel,
1919.
The first General assembly mel on the % of July.
Willard Snow was elected Speaker of the House Alfred
Carf'nglon Clerk John d. Lee. Assistant Clerk aud
Geo ID Grant, Sergeant ai-Arns.
Aiief the organic ,tlon. the chairman announced To tho
House that a majority of all The vo,es Of the people had
been gwen Tor the adoption Of the Constitution and
that Brigham Young had received a mainrity of all Of thu
Yates Tor Governor Heber e. Kimbal for Lienlenan,
Governor William Richards Cor Secretary of State.
VIM Clayton for Auditor ul Public Accounts Joseph s.
lieywofd Tor Treasurer; and they were severally in-
loImeI thereof.
TN The ID a resolution was passed proyiding for ,
lnlnt committee II melnuralize Congress for a State or
territorial Governments which was afterwards reported
and adopted.
on the OH instant, according l., previous resolutions,
The Legislature met In joint session, and prucreded To
haIlo' Tor n Delegate mud Representative 10 Congress,
when Alnon W, Babbil, having received n majority Of
all the Votes was do Jared duly elected.
On The Oh, the Legislature adjourned sine die. Before
dung ~ they adopted II memorial 10 Congress, IN which
'''y SCI birth the reasons, which have induced them 10
Organize n State Government They eta the failure of
congress I" provide a government for the territory ac.
CURED ir'm Mexico, The altugation of the Mexican law.
ne anatchv which has followed. The revolver and tho
Bowie knife" they say. "have been the highest law Of
ne land--ihe strong have prevailed npains, Tue weak
"hlle lefsons, property. character, aud religion have been
ona'ded. mud virtue unprotected" Finally, hey repre-
sent nat there Is nav u sufficient numbrr uf inhabitants
tos'l'hg wili'ln the STATE Of Dcscret TO support n State
Government, and 10 relieve the General tovernmeni from
the expense Of a Territorial Government, and they there.
lore ask that tho Constitution accompanying this memor.
tai be ratified. aud that the State Of Dcseret bc ad-
IhIIlod into tho Inlon on an equal fntlpp with tho
other States OF that such form Of Government, NAV
be given 10 them as may BIO deemed expedlent and
mat tleIr Delegate may be received mud their inter-
es's properly represented in he Congress Of the United
States.
Not n word u said in the Constitution abou, slavery or
The Nilmot pfoviso, such things not having entered into
inc l'"aRina''ol's OF the law eiyers rs important for their
Welfare, ~" Constitution will be pressed upon Congress
ana, II ralihad. Two new Senators aud a R.p, esantatiya
will soon appear in that body from the Safe Of Desert
IA STATE. which was without n settled inhabit mt four
years ago, aud which Is some twenty five hundred mios
from The seat Of the Federal Government.
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