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

sbau canvass all such returns and issue
sna 4is Ss of election to those persons
cG Lo heing eligible for such election,
VII VII annear to have been lawfully
ssnIontad which certificates shall be the
nIv evidence of the right of such per-
ond5 To sit in such Assembly: Provided,
T TT said board of five persons shall
lot exclude any person otherwise
nIiGible to vote from the polls on ac-
enSnt of any opinion such person may
entertain on the subject OF blgamy OF
'ooiHJganv. nor shall they refuse to count
INV INV Such vote on account OF the opin-
inn of the person casting it on the sub
iect of bieany or polygamy; but each
Honse of such Assembly, after its
nroanization, shall have power to de-
eide upon the elections and qualifica-
lions of it's members; and at or after
the first meeting of said Legislative
ISsembly, whose members shall have
heen elected and returned according to
the provisions of this act, said Legis-
latiVe Assembly may make such laws,
confOrmable to the organic act of said
Territory and not inconsistent with
other laws of the United States, as 1t
shall deem proper, concerning the fill
ling of the offices in said Territory de-
clared vacant by this act.n - Y q
Section 1852 of the Revised Statutes,
which the foregoing act amends, reads
as follows: every person having a
5nsband or wife living who marries
4nother, whether married or single, in
. Territory, or other place over which
The Inited States have exclusive juris-
diction, is entity of bigamy, and shall
he punished by a fine of not more than
i've hundred dollars, and by imprison-
ment for a term not more than five
Years: but this section shall not eX-
lend to any person by reason of any
former marriage whose husband or
wife by such marriage is absent for
five successive years and is not known
10 spch person to be living, nor to any
person by reason of any former mar
rage which has been dissolved by de-
cree of a competent court, nor to any
person by reason of any former mar
rage which has been pronounced void
bv decree of competent court on the
ground of nullity of the marriage con-
uact." af,r
At the time of the passage of the act
of March %, 1882, the qualifications of
voters prescribed by the Territorial
legislature, whose right to do so was
conferred by the organic act of Utah,
were as follows: If males, they were
required to be citizens of the United
States, over twenty-One years of age,
and constant residents in the Territory
during the six months next preceding
the election, and no person was to be
deemed resident unless he was tax
payer in the Territory; if females, 4
they were required to be of the
ace OF tWenty-One years, resident
in the Territory six months next pre-
cedine the election, and born or hat-
uralized in the United States, or the /!
wife, widow or daughter of q native /
born or naturalized citizen of the Uni |
ted States. (ACt to establish q territorial |
q0UerRnaent for Utah, approved Septep1-
her 8, 1850, 8 Stats. 453; Comp. |
La1S of Utah, 1876, p. $50
At the same time there was also in |
force chap. u of the laws of Utah, 1878,
providing for the registration of vo-
iers and to further regulate the man.
ner of conducting elections IN that
Territory.
That act contains the following pro-
visions:
'That the assessors in their respec-
tive counties are hereby constituted
the registration officers, and they are
required to appoint a resident deputy
in each precinct to assist ia carrying
out the provisions of this act, and be-
fore the first Monday in June, 1873, in
person or by deputy, they shall visit
every dwelling in each precinct, and
make careful inquiry as to any or all
persons entitled to vote, and each as
SCISSOR or deputy, in all cases, shall as
certain upon what ground such person
claims to be a voter, and he shall re-
quire each person entitled to vote and
desiring to be registered to take and |
subscribe in substance the following
oath or affirmation:
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