Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-22
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To-day Attorney General Bishop
transmitted tho following opinion TO
william ID. L,ving,,on, attorney TOT
5anpete o9uutyi
Oar Bif-f am In receipt Of your
avof OF Outober liih, In which you
AK 10 bo advised upon the follnwlngi
In Sanpetc county tho precincts
which eject Iusticea OF the peace are
Ia many Instances divided into a mum.
bef Of election precincts. Could there
Va such instances be = transfer o. refis.
nation ~ pef section 10, chapter oxxvi
Of our late session laws, from one Of
such election ptsclnrta ~ another,
" both election precincts arc within
the RE cinut that elect the came Justice
Of the peact7 !. .. docs tho eitc lou
precinct govern tho length OF rssi.
1encs3 IL ~ Il u not impssslblr g.
transfer registration ~ fnr a. the com.
Ing election h c0nrsfntl2'
In reply 10 your inquiry, II may be
we'll ~ suggest. that tue present regis.
tfation ~ an entirely new Que, ami tnal
all u tho Territorial law Ia Folati q
ihtfrtn has been repealed By necessary
Implication by onapicf cxHVi OF tue
Laws Of 1890,
Section D Of said chapter pfovldoii
III shall be- tho DUTY Of tue registry
agents, between the huufs Of eight
o'clock q. M, AMI eight o'clock .. m,
u such days between The TENTH AuI
thiftiuih days oi Sop'emuef NJ may be
designated by tue bard Of county
conimitslDnefs Of tueif ftspec i've
counties In zach year In whiuh iheie D.
a general election, 10 personally Wei,
every occupied houfn IN their fsspgc.
tive VI, oiucts aud 10 receive aud fsgli.
ter the names OF all PERSONS legsily
qualified and entitled 10 vote a. tueh
vi,clloD," tic.
Bald section also provides for rcgit.
tfAtion on certain uays thereafter ioi
pnfaons who were not registered Ia
the house ~ house canvass. IL will
DO Observed by this zee ion that the
earliest pUssiblu date Al which tegiatin.
Ion uld DO hal, an iur tho prusuul
law. Nps on thu liih day ~ Slplemb "
1855. Section 0 VI sald act provldsl
he form Of oath whlch must DO taksf
~ each electot Al tho tins " 70 istfs
ton. Ia thia he IL required 10 ave Il
that he shall have bteu a resident "
the precinct In which he seeks o. b,
Registered, tot sixty days At the TIM
OF the elect "a whlcn occurs on tue SD
dsy OF November. 1896.
section 10 OF said 80, (bolng tho on,
cited by youJ provides
"Auy registered eleoioT mnvin,
from one pTaGiuct n another, PRIOR Il
the DAY ~ the orsuinK election, maj
appiy 10 tie fsglslTy agent btioTl
whom no has already bsen fegistsfe
for that year, Al ANY timo prior 70 tn
last day VI tho registration VI voter
aud have his name taken Oh tn
official register anl receive from ihl
registry agent a certificate % DO Gale,
a registry certinoate. undsf the signs
tufe Of tho rrgialr.tiOD agent, showing
substantially that he wac, o.
certain dey, duly Tgia,erU,
on the oniolal register o
that precinct, and that his nAma h.
been erased Al his own request, whici
certificate will entitle him 10 have hi
name registered within tbs period .
registration Ia tue same mAnnor q
other names ste registered IN an
other precinct, either villain tho sam
county OF In any other county, Tor cal,
election; provided, II sAiislaclorlll
| hppoafa ~ tue tcklslfy agent receiving
the oeTlin safe, anu 10 whom Appiioa
lion 10 mNde Tor second registration
that the applicant will have reside
such length Of tins within tucl
county and precinct prior 10 the nrr
ensuing olVotion a. 10 provided by Law
TO entitie MIN 10 vote"
II must DO borne Ia mind that thl
law was not enacted wholly with rel
efenee 10 tho coming elrrtl0H, but va
enacted ~ a general law upon tho cub
lsci of registration, TO continue Il
iofce from year 10 year unltsa mod
lled or repealed,
am Of opinion that thia section doe
n 10 cIutvnplate transfer VI Tugistn
n NJ the coming election '0T IA
Ieasun that it would be impossibs 10
auy Iors0n VINO was resident Of
iveu pfsciuel on tue llth Jay OF agr