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

only be commenced on the complaint of the
husband or wife are hereby disapproved and
annulled and all prosecutions for adultery
may hereafter be instituted in the same way
that prosecutions for other crimes are.
SEC. 12 That the acts of the Legislative
Assembly of Utah incorporating, continu-
ing, or providing for the corporation known
MS the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, and the ordinance of tho so-called
General Assembly of the State of Deserct
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 disapproved 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
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 IAN 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
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:
Piopided, 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
Sn-pnllnl Dpvarunnnt M tho Sfafa Oft
creating, organizing, amending, or continu-
ing the corporation 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,
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. 1G. That it shall be the duty of the
Attorney 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
tion and pay the debts and to dispose Of the
property and assets thereof accordingto law,
Said property and assets, in excess of the
debts and the amount of any lawful claims
established by the court against the same,
shall escheat to the United States, and shall
be taken, invested, and disposed of by the
Secretary of the Interior under the direction
of the President of the United States, for the
benefit of common schools in said Territory.
SEC IL: That the existing election dis
tricts and apportionments of representation
concerning the members of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Utah are here
by abolished; and it shall be the duty of the
Governor, Territorial Secretary, and the
United States Judges in said Territory forth
with to redistrict said Territory, and appor-
ton representation in the same in such
manner as to provide, as nearly as may be,
Tor an equal representation of the people i
excepting Indians not taxed, being citizens
of the United States, according to numbers.
in said Legislative Assembly, and to the
number of members of the Council and
House of Representatives, respectively, as
now established by law; and record of the
establishment of such new districts and the
apportionment of representation thereto
shall be made in the office of the Secretary
OF said Territory, and such establishment
and representation shall continue until Con-
gress shall otherwise provide: and no persons
other than citizens of the United States
otherwise qualified shall be entitled to vote
ut any election in said Territory.
SIC. Is. That the provisions of section
nine of said Act approved March twenty
second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
IN regard to registration and election offices,
and the registration of voters, and the CON
duct of elections, and the power and duties
OF the board therein mentioned, shall CON
tlnue ana remain operative until the provis-
ion and laws therein referred to be made
and enacted by the Legislative Assembly of
said Territory of Utah shall have been made
and enacted by said Assembly and shall
have been approved by Congress.
SEC. u. That whoever commits adultery
shall be punished by Imprisonment in the
ot.exceeding three wears; and
when the act is committed between mar
fied woman and man who is unmarried,
both parties to such act shall be deemed
guilty of adultery. and when such act il
committed between n married man and n
woman who is unmarried, the man shall be
deemed guilty of adultery.
SEC. 20. That if an unmarried man NJ,
woman commits fornication, each of them
shall be punished by Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding Blk months, or by fine not exceedino
one hundred dollars.
SEC. u. That commissioners appointed
by the Supreme Court and District Courts
III the territory OF Utah shall possess and
may exercise all the powers and Jurisdiction
That are or may be possessed or exercised by
justices of the peace in said Territory under
the laws thereof, and the same powers CON
iefred by law on commissioners appointed
by Circuit Courts Of the United States.
SEC. -. That the Marshal of said Terri
tory of Utah, and his deputies, shall possess
and may exercise all the powers in executing
the laws of the United States possessed and
exercised by sheriifs and their deputies as
peace officers; and each of them shall cause
all offenders against the law, in his view, to
enter into recognizanee to keep the peace
ana to appear at the next term Of the court
having jurisdiction of the case and to com
mlt to 1all in case of failure to give such re-
cognizance,, They shall quell and suppress
and batteries, riots, ronts. alirays,
ana lnsurrectlons, and shall apprehend and
commit to Jail all felons.
SEQ. ~, That the office of Territorial Su-
perlntendent of District Schools crcntnd hu