Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-17


that prosecutions for other crimes are.
Sec. II. That the acts of the Legislative
Assembly of Utah incorporating, contlnu-
ing, or providing for the corporation known
as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, and the ordinance of the so-called
General Assembly of the State of Deseret
incorporating the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, so far as the same may
now have legal force and validity, are here
by disapproyed and annulled, SO far as the
same may preclude the appointment by the
United States of certain trustees of said
corporation as hereinafter provided. The
President of the United States, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate. shall
appoint fourteen trustees of the said cor
poration, who shall have and exercise all the
powers and functions of trustees and assist
ant trustees provided for in the laws creating,
amending or continuing the said corporation,
which trustees so appointed shall hold their
respective offices for the term of two years;
and the trustees of said Incorporation shall
annually or oftener make full report to the
Secretary of the Interior embracing all the
property, business affairs and operations of
the said corporation; and the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Utah shall not
have power to change the laws respecting
said corporation without the approval of
Congress. Said trustees shall each give
bond, payable to the United States, with
good and sufficient security, for the faithful
discharge of the duties incumbent upon him
as trustee, in such sum as may be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 13. That it shall be the duty of the
Attorney General of the United States to
institute and prosecute proceedings to for
felt and escheat to the United States the
property of corporations obtained or held in
violation of section three of the act of Con-
gress approved the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty two, entitled 'An Act to
punish and prevent the practice of polyga-
my in the Territories of the United States
and other places, and disappearing and an
nulling certain acts of the Legislative AS
sembly of the Territory of Utah." or in
violation of section eighteen hundred and
ninety of the Revised Statutes of the United
States; and all such property so forfeited
and escheated to the United States shall be
disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior,
and the proceeds thereof applied to the use
and benefit of the common schools in the
Territory in which such property may be:
Prouided, That no building shall be forfeited
which is held and occupied exclusively for
purposes of religious worship.
SEC. Ia. That in any proceeding for the
enforcement of the provisions of law against
corporations or associations acquiring or
holding property in any Territory of the
United States in excess of the amount linn
tied by law, the court before which such pro-
ceeding may be instituted shall have power
in summary way to compel the production
of all books, records, papers and documents
of or belonging to any trustee or person
holding or controlling or managing property
in which such corporation may have any
right, title or interest whatever.
Sec. 15. That all laws of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Utah, or of the
so-called COVER menu Of the State of Deseret,
creating, organ lzlng, amending, or continu-
ing the corporsGiOD or association called the
Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company are
hereby disapproved and annulled; and it
shall not be lawful for the Legislative As
sembly of the Territory of Utah to create,
or in any manner recognize any
corporation or association for the purpose of
Or operating to accomplish the bringing of
persons into the said Territory for any pur
pose whatsoever.
Sec. 16 That it shall be the duty of the
General of the United States to
cause such proceedings to be taken in the
Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah as
shall be proper to dissolve the said CORPORA
ion and pay the debts and to dispose of the
property and assets thereof according to law
Said property and assets, in excess of the
tebts and the amount of any lawful claims
by the court against the same. |
hall escheat to the United States, and shall |
,e taken, invested, and disposed of by the |
secretary of the Interior, under the direction |
# the President of the United States, for the |
'eneft of common schools in said Territory.
Sec. II. That the existing election dis !
riots and apportionments of representation
oncernlng the members of the Legislative
assembly CT the Territory of Utah are here
y abolished; and it shall be the duty of the
governor, Territorial Secretary, and the
United States Judges in said Territory forth
nth to redistrict said Territory, and appor-
ion represen tation in the same in such
lanner as to provide, as nearly as may be,
OF an equal representation Of the people
excepting Indians not taxed) being citizens
f the United States, according to numbers,
1 said Legislative Assembly, and to the
umber of members of the Council and
louise of Representatives, respectively, as
ow established by law; and record of the
establishment of such new districts and the
pportlonment of representation thereto
nall be made in the Office of the Secretary
said Territory, and such establishment
nd representation shall continue until Con-
ress shall otherwise provide; and no persons
5her than citizens of the United States :
5herwise qualified shall be entitled to vote :
any election in said Territory.
SEC. IL. That the provisions of section
Inc of said Act approved March TWENTY
'cond, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
regard to registration and election offices,
nd the registration of voters, and the con-
act OF elections, and the, power and duties
the board therein mentioned, shall con-
nue. and remain operative until the provis-
n and laws therein referred to be made q
I'D enacted by the Legislative Assembly of
i'd Territory of Utah shall have been made
I'd enacted by said Assembly and shall
I'VE been approved by Congress.
SEC. IS. That whoever commits adultery
all be punished by Imprisonment in the
nitentiary not.exceeding three years; and
hen the act is committed between mar
I'D woman and man who is unmarried.
'th parties to such act shall be deemed 4
llty OF adultery, and when such act is
between a married man and a
oman who is unmarried, the man shall he
emed guilty of adultery
SEC. 20. That if an unmarried man or ,
'man commits fornication, each of them
all be punished by imprisonment not ex- :
edmg SIX months, or by fine not exceeding
e hundred dollars.
the Supreme Court and District Courts
the Territory of Utah shall possess and
ay exercise all the powers and jurisdiction 4
at are or may be possessed or exercised by
stlces of the peace in said Territory under ?
Q laws thereof, and the same powers con-
red by law on commissioners appointed
Circuit Courts of the United States.
SEC. 90. That the Marshal of said Terri
y of Utah, and his deputies, shall possess
d may exercise all the powers in executing
g laws of the United States possessed and
ercised by sheriffs and their deputies as
ace officers; and each of them shall cause
offenders against the law, in his view, to
ter into recognizance to keep the peace
d to appear at the next term of the court
wing jurisdiction of the case, and to com
to jail in case of failure to give such re-
enhance. They shall quell and suppress C
'aults and batteries, riots, routs, affrays,
d instructions, and shall apprehend and
nmit to Jail all felons. n
Sec. %. That the Office of Territorial Su- y
-intendent of District Schools created by
laws of Iltah iS harehu danIa rod rraaa,,f.