Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-12
THE ENABLING ACT.
Full Text Of the Measure as Passed
by Congress,
GRANTING STATEHOOD TO UTAH.
The Document Which President Cleye'
land Undoubtedly VIII Sign
Within Day or Two.

Herewith " gwen the Iull text OF
the Utah Enabling Act a. passed by
Congress and sent 10 PRECEDENT Cleve.
land for his approval When II was
placed on lie passage In the Senate,
verbal amendment was offered by
Senator Plat, which does not change
any OF the provisions Of the enact
ment.
The bill wus first introduced into the
House Of Representatives by Delegate
Rawllns, Of Umb, and passed that
branch Of the national legislature
December 10, 1898, practically without
division. IL came up In the Senate
December rs, 1898, and being read
twice was referred to the committee on
,orfltorles.
On May II, 1894, Senator Faulkner,
Of tbs committee, reported the bill
with amendments, aud rs II now mp.
toaff. la this form 1t passed the Sen
ate on Tu,sday last, July 10. The
next day It was returned TO the House,
which coueurscd In the amendments
made ga related In our dispatches to-
10y, anu has been transmittod 10 the
President for approval 'fhe act read';
An 40, to enable the people Of Utah to
form q constitution aud state govern
mont, and To be- admitted into the
Union ON an equal footing with the
original states
Al
of RgUrss1fdhrta NJ ne tIiNcd NtntC of
Imsftc1 900 Congress assembled! That tho
inhabitants VI all that part " che area Of
the United safes now CnnHuuttluR tho
Territory Of Uah,as at present described,
may become the state oi Utah, ~ herein
uiIrr provided.
srC .. Tnai nll malo citizens Of the
United = ntos over the age OF twnnty-ono
year who hgyo resided IA said .orrIiory
Tor one year next PRIOR 10 such election,
arc hereby nu horized TO vote Tor aud
choose delegates 10 form % convention iu
tnid Territory. such delegates shall
tus.cs- the qualifications OF such electors;
aud tho aforesaid convention shall con-
nst OF ono hundred and sONou delegates,
uppnriunod among lhU several cluntu-
within the limits OF tho proposed tttto u.s.
follows Beaver county, two delegates,
Box Elder county, four delegates. Cache
three dolcgetog Emory county, three
delegates Garfield county, ono dclCgaipi
Omud county. Que delegate; Iron county,
ono dciogutoi juah county, three dele.
80 o.; Kane county, ono doiega 20 Millnfd
county, two delegates; Morgan county,
uuc delegate; piute county, one dcloguci
Rich county, ono delegate; Salt Lake
county, twoniy.uinn delegates. thu. APP
plgtonCd to-wl Salt Lake ely, First
precinct, four delegates; Second precinct,
ia delegates; Third precinct, hvo dele
gates; Fourth precinct, thfoo dologaiesi
linh precinct, three deiogatosi all other
precincts IA said county, outside OF SAT-
Lake Ciiy, eight Delegates san Juan
county, one delegate; san Poto y,
toven delegate; Seyior county, three
dologa c.; summit county, four delegates,
Toooo county. Two doloritesi uinlah
county, ono delegate; Utah county,
twelve dolrgatosi Wasltch county, two
delegates; Washington county, two dele
ra'o.; Wayne county, one delegate, and
Weber county, eleven dolcgalo-i and
the Governor Of said Territory shall
ON tho hrst day Of Augus', eighteen
hundred md ninety.four, issue pro-
ClnmaIiun ordering nu election ~ tho
delegate, aforesaid In said Territory 10
he held ON tho Tuesday next Mor the
fret Monday lu November following.
The board OF commissioners known as
the Utah commission i hereby author
lied and required 90 cause now and
complete repatriation Oi Nuior- u said
Territory 10 bO made undvr the pro-
visions Of the laws OF tho United S,atos
ana said Territory, except that tho oath
required for registration under said laws
shull DO sn mod lied as io tOst the qunlin-
cations of the electors as prescribed la
this acti such new registration 10 ho
made ~ nearly eoniormablo with tho
provisions ~ such LAYS ns may be-; and
such election for delegates shall be- con-
Quoted, the roturns made, tho result
HscoriHinod, aud the certificate oi persons
elected To such convention issued Ia tho
Same munnOr us Is prescribed by the
laws OF said Territory regulating oloc-
tons therein ~ momhors Of the lOgis-
Iaturc. Persons possessing tho qualitca-
lions emitting them 10 vote Tor delegates
under this act shall bo entitled 10 yolo on
tho ratification or rejection Of the con-
htiiution, under such rules or regulations
as said convention may prescribe, not la
conflict with this act.
See. .. That tho delegates To the con-
veution thus elected snail meet at tho
seat " government Of sad Territory on
tho first Monday In March, eighteen
hundred and ninoiy-tiyo, and, after
organization. shall doclnr0 ON behalf OF
tho people of said proposed stale that
States, whereupon tho said conyen ion
shall be, and II hereby, authorized TO
& rm "A constitution and STA o government
for taid proposed state. Tho constitution
shall ho republican In form, ANA make
no distinction In civil or political rights
ON account of race or color, except hs 10
Indians not taxed, and not 10 be rOpug-
nant to the Constitution Of tho United
States and the principles OF the DeclHm-
ton OF Independence. And said cOnvcn-
ton shall provide, by ordinance ire
Nocablo without tho consent OF tho Unit
cd States and iho people Of said state
First-lhat perfect federation Of ro-
lIgious sentiment shall be secured, and
that no inhabitant of said state shall over
be mOl0stod In person or property on
account u hi. or her mode Of religious
Worship Pr0rdrd, That pOlygamOus
or plural marriages AFRO forever ptOhib-
tod.
Second-That tho people inhabltlng
said proposed state 40 agree aud declare
that they forever dsolaim all right aud
title 10 the unappropriaied public lands
lying within the Boundaries thereof; and
TO all lands lying within said limits
owned or held by any Indian or Indian
tribes; and that until tho title thereto
shall have been eNlinguishod by tho
United States, the same shall be and ro-
main subject To he disposition OF tho
United Safes, and said Indian lands
shall romAin undor tho absolute luris-
dlction aud control Of the Congress OF tho
United States; that tho lands belonging
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