The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-19

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Alexander Ramsey, A. S. Paddock, q
L. Godfrey, A. B. Carleton and j. Il.
Pettigrew, defendants in all, were per-
sons who composed tie board ap-
pointed under section of the act OF
Congress, approved March %, 1882, en-
titled IAN act to amend section fifty
three hundred andfifty-two of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States, in
reference to bigamy, and for other
purposes" % Stats. 80. E ID. Hoge,
also a defendant in all the cases, was
appointed registration officer for the
county of Salt Lake, in the Territory
of Utah, by that board, in pursuance OF
that section of the act. The other de-
PENDANTS, one of whom is joined in
each action, to wit, Arthur Pratt,
John S. Lindsay, Harmed Pratt and
james 7. Little, were respectively dep
uty registration officers in designated
election precincts in which the plain
tiffS in the actions severally claimed
the right to be registered as voters.
The object of the actions was to re-
cover damages, alleged to have arisen
by reason of the defendants wrongfully
and maliciously refusing to permit the
plaintiffs respectively TO be registered
as qualified voters in the, Territory OF
Utah, whereby they were deprived OF
the right to vote at an election held IN
that Territory on November 9TH, 1882,
for the election of a Delegate to the
Forty eighth Congress.
In the case in which Jesse J. Murphy
is plaintiff below and appellant here,
the complaint is as follows:
1.-THE plaintiff above named COM
plains of the defendants, and on in
FL, aud halinf ollnNnC fhat Il f
ter the 22d day of March, 1882, and
prior to the first day of July, 1882, IN
der the provisions of section 8 of an
act of the Congress of the United
States, approved March 22d, 1882, and
entitled AN act to amend section 1852
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, in reference to bigamy, and
for other purposes the President of
the United States by and with the con-
sent of the Senate of the United States,
duly appointed the defendants, Alexan-
der Ramsey, A. S. Paddock, G. L..
Godfrey, A B. Carleton and j r.. Petit
grew, to perform the duties mentioned
in said section, to be performed by a
board of five persons, and by virtue of
said appointment, they became a board
of five persons with the powers named
in said section. ~ tk4I z
"And, on information and belief, the
plaintiff alleges that, after such ap-
pointment, and priCr to the first day of
August, 1882, the last named five de-
PENDANTS, duly qualified as such ap-
pointeeS, came to Utah land organized
as a board, and entered upon the eX-
ercise of the powers and the discharge
of the duties granted and imposed by
said section 8 of said act of Congress.
That after said organization, said five
defendants were commonly called
commissioners, and are hereinafter
to and called The Board of
"Tnat said Board of Commissioners
afterward ordered, directed and super
vised a registration of the voters of the
Territory of Utah, for the general cleo
ton in said Territory, to be held on the
seventh day of November, 1882, for the
election of Delegate for said Territory
to the Forty eighth Congress, and for
such other elections as might be held
prior to another registration of voters
Of said Territory; and on or about the
10th day of August, 1885,, the SAID Board
Of Commissioners made and published
rules providing tor said registration,
for the appointment of registration
officers and judges of election, and the
canvass and return of the votes; di-
rected said registration to be made
Turing the week commencing on the
second Monday of September, 1882,
md, among other rules, wilfully and
made and published the
following:
Rule /.
'There shall be appointed one regis
ration officer for each county, and one
ieputy registration officer for each
thereof. tk.f
Rule III.
Such registration officer shall, on
he second Monday of September next,
proceed by himself and his deputies in
he manner following: The registra-
ion officer of each county shall pro-
cure from, the clerk of the county court
he last preceding registry list on file
n his Office, and shall, by himself or
lis deputies, require of each person
whose name is ON said list, or who APP
1lies to have his name placed on said
list, to take and subscribe the following
path or affirmation:
OF UTAH,
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