The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-04-28

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press polygnniy iii the Territories Of the
United States was takenup. NH Branch
Hem. N. CT moved an Amendments,
striking out the clause declaring poly
ramy criminal and simply annul and de-
clare void all the iawsOf Utah sanction
ing p0Iygnmy. He reminded bis Demo
cratic paftisans that AZ polyganly was De
clared criminal, then that other twin
relic az barbarisin, Slavery, might also
BE declared criminal. Nh. Logan Dem,
HIS. proposed . substitute 70 repeal The
| law establishing tile Territorial Govern
ment Of Utah
lsIlE SUPPRESSION on Pgf. i.G aifY AIN lrrAlI,
WAsnIxeTox, April 3. 1860.
The House resumed the consideration
81 the anti. Polyganiy bill
The following Is the bill FOR the punish
ment and suppression q polyganiy, now
under consideration III the House az
Washington
Bill 10 Punish md Prevent the Practice
81 PoIygalny in the Territories Of the
United States md other places. and
Disappearing and anuulling certain acts
Of the Legislative Assembly Of the Ter
ritory Of Utah, aud which sets forth:
II Whereas, Ii Il admitted thatpolygamy:
Ii permitted BY the municipal regulations
4 of one Of the Territories of this Union,
81 and is sought to BE- justified on the ground
Il that this abonlination ii Christian
] country IS a religious rite of the inhabl-
n tants 81 said Tcrritofyy alid, whereas, no
/ principle Of selfgoyerninent OF citizen
!. sovereignty can require or justify the
d practice of said moral pollutionf there
/ fore.
Z Resolved, That ifany person or per-
! sons, being married, and an inhabitant III
/ tany Territory Of The United States, oil
z other place over which the United Suites
possesses exclusive Jurisdiction, shall In
tcrInarry with any person OF persons, of
. lcohabit with any person or persons, or
d live with any person Oh persons as part-
S lners, acknowledging coljngal relations,
I the former husband OF wife being alive,
/ lie, she, or they SO offending, shall, on
{ fconyiction thereof, pay i line not exceed
/ ling Ave hundred dollars, and be impri.
E soned not less tlian two years, nor more
i than 1--WE years: provided, nevertheless,
I that this section, on any thing therein
ii tcontained, shall hot extend to any per
4 son or persons whose husband or wife
t. shall absent himself or herself one from
I the other for the space of live years, tho
one Of them not knowing the other to DC
HIKING within that time, nor to any person
or persons who shall be, at the time 81
such marriage, divorced 10y competent att
thOrity, or 20 any person on persons whose
former marriage, BY sentence Of competent
authority, shall have been declared void
Sec 2. BE it further eHaeted, That the
following ordinance Of the Provisions
i Government Of the State Of Deseret, Sc
/, called, namely Is An ordinance incorporat
|. ing the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter
b Day Saints, passed February 9, iii Til
year lS5 and, adopted, re,cnacted anc
i made valid bv the Governor and Ilegisla
II tive Assembly Of the Territory Of Utal
4 by an act passed january 10, In the yeal
3 1855, entitled An act iIl relation to tic
compilation and revision of the laws and
!. resolutions In force lii Utah Territory
their publication mud distribntion, and
oil other acts and parts of atts heretofore
passed by the said Legislative Assembly
of the Territory Of u tah, which establish
support, maintain, shield or corntenaiice
Ipolygamy, be, and the saIne hereby are,
y IdiSapproycd and annulied: Provided that
: this act shall be so limited and construed
4 as not TO affect or Interfere with the right
1 Of property legally acquired under the 81.
4 tlinance heretofore mentioned, nor with
the right to worship God according Ia
the dictates Of conscience, y but only to
annnl oil acts and laws which establish,
/ maintain, protect or conntenance the
4 practice Of polygamy, eyasiyely called
spiritual marriage, however disguised BY
Illegal or ecclesiastical solennities, sacra.
lnents. ceremonies coilseclatlons or other
contrisances .. I. Z.
81 Ns RRAScIt's SUBSTITUTE. s::.
!. BE it enacted, That the third and
fourth sections of the act entitled can
: act to establish y Territorial Government
B for Utah, approved the 9th of Septenl-
i Der, 1850, be, and tic same are hereby
gtrepeaied. ID ]. .=5.s /. :
i Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
1 hereafter, the legislative power as defined
and limited IN said act shall be vested III
the Governor, ana thirteen Of the most
{ Git aud discreet persons Of the Territory,
j 70 be called tie Legislative Council, who
j shall be appointed bienniafIy ~ the Pre-
tsident Of the United States, by aud with
E the advice and consent Of tho senate,
!. from among tho citizens pf the Unjted
States. residing therein, and without re
ference TO amy districts which have here
tofore been laid on. 81.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That the first appointments nnder this
/ act shall be made on or before the 4th 81
N March. 1861, on which day said appoint.
Inents shall have effect. .' ,*
Mr.. cClernard. denl. of Ills, pro-
ceeded TO sustain bis assertions made yes
Eterday that there was no instance. IN
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