The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-25
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
FORTY-SEVENTH DAY.
COUNCIL.
FRIDAY, February 81, 1882.
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chaplain, the committee on agricul-
ture, trades and manufactures, re-
ported back III. F. 81, providing for
county sealers of weights and mea-
sures; H. F. S, amending section
AIS of the Compiled Laws. without
amendments, recommending their
passage; also G. F. "a, relating to
bee-inspectOrs, with amendments.
These bills were laid on the table TO
come up in their order.
Councillor Thurber offered a report
from Jens Jensen and Emanuel
Bagley, the territorial commits
sionerS in the Salina Canyon and
Meadowyille wagon road, contain
ing the disbursements on such road
and stated that a road is now open
from county to county, but not as
good as desired to be. Referred to
the committee on roads, etc.
Councillor Murdoch presented
claim from Thos. E. Taylor for
deficiency in appropriation for
printing in 1880, amounting to
S9195. Referred to the committee
on claims.
Councillor Game presented a DILL
for an act Incorporating Salt Lake
City. This is the new charter re-
| Gently gotten up by the City Coun-
| Gil of salt Lake. City. Referred to
the committee on municipal incOr-
porations.
Also a bill to establish and pro-
| tect the identity of married women.
This bill provides that women shall
retain the same legal existence after
marriage as before, and that for any
unjust usurpation of her property
she possesses the right of appeal to
courts for redress in her own name,
as her husband has.
Councillor E. Snow, from the COM
mittee on municipal incOrpOratloRS,
reported back II. F. 81, the bill
changing the boundaries of Payson
City. without amendments and rec
commended its passage. Laid on the
table to come up in its order.
III. F. s, to amend section 415 Of
the Compiled Laws, so that the
branding Of calves to save them be-
coming estrays, be made twelve
months instead Of eighteen, wa:
read.
Councillor Cuff explained that h
did not consider that the amendmen
offered would remedy the evil.
Councillor Wells was opposed t.
the measure recommended in tht
amendment.
Councillor Smoot had been par
TALLY convinced by the House com
mittee. but he was convinced agains
his will.
Councillor Thurber did not thinl
lit competent for the Legislature t
say that any animal running on tn
public range not branded could b
cunfScated from the ownership o
one person AMI be conveyed to an
other person. Stockmen always Sc
that their stock are branded early
and they run no risks, but a person
who had but a few head would no
be benefited by this act, and it woul
also make the age of estrays S
short that keepers of estray pound
would get less from sales than the
do now; and, at the present tim
many Of them do not obtain suffi
cient to interest them in attending
to the duties of the Office.
Councillor Murdoch. though favor
ing the bill, did not think it woul
remedy the present evil, but wa
willing to try the experiment t
crafty the petitioners for the mat
ter. There was great complaint il
his section of country concerning
cattle thieves, and these thieves ar
taking every advantage Of purlOin
! ing stock. It may make the owner
of young stock more careful in earl,
branding their stock.
Councillor Cuffs experience i
stock raising led him to oppose til
bill even in the face Of the wish o
some stock men in the southern
part of the territory. There are ad
IYantageS and disadvantages in tn
bill, according to the section of th
country where it might be CARRIE
into effect-What would benefit on
part would not another, and he fel
! confident the bill will not remed
| the evil complained of among stocl
men.
Councillor Smoot said the strong
lest argument brought in favor o
| the bill was that in the rounding u
IdriveS, which generally occur il
June, there are always parties lurk
ling around the cOrrRls, watching TO
kestray calves, and all those left il
1.-THE corral not owned are seized b.
sthese men, or if they are turned on
en- the range these thieves f0lloy
the cattle or calves and brand them
twhen they are under IS months c
Iage. The remedy proposed may b
la lesser evil than the one now pre-
yailing, but certainly did not cur
1.-THE trouble existing. We are amend
ing too many sections of the Con
spiled Laws.
Councillor E. Snow did not lik
the shape of the bill. These cattl
Sdrives are the means Of driving u
Iother cattle and calves than thos
(which belonged to these large stoc
IherderS, and often times out Of til
Sreach of the proper owners. Whe
/ these stock owners have selecte
their own the rest are turned out fl
, thieves to pounce upon. He wOul
like to see a law governing tines
}, | stock drives, for they are sure to |
continued, law or no law, and {