Show THE LIBRARY BOARD Trustees Will Now Take the Oath of Office Acting upon the information in yesterdays yes-terdays Herald to the effect that the discovery had been made that the trustees trus-tees of the public library and free reading read-ing room had omitted to take the constitutional con-stitutional oath of office before entering upon the performance of their duties Major H C Hill secretary of the board applied to the city recorder yesterday yes-terday morning for a sufficient number of blank oaths for the signatures of himself and colleagues When the trustees go through the process of qualifying they will ratify their few previous de facto actions I However it is possible that the trustees trus-tees have been provided with the wrong form of oath I the citys oath blanks are the proper ones notwithstanding I I t they are not worded in the lan feucit c pi ca < nucu My acuLiuji JLU UJ ill Liuit IV of the state constitution at least two of the trustees may have to retire because of the fact that they are associated asso-ciated with certain private corporations in capacities which prohibit them under un-der section 17 article XII of the constitution con-stitution of the state of Utah from holding municipal office I on the other hand the form of oath already taken by several city officials and ready to be subscribed to by the incoming incom-ing members of the administration shall be deemed to be erroneous the situation is still more complicated yet easy of solution The question of what is the correct form of the constitutional oath of office of-fice was debated with much animation in several of the city offices yesterday and a variety of legal opinion was ventilated ven-tilated In the state and county offices the constitutional form of oath which is very much unlike the citys blank is i in vogue |