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Show ALIENS MAY HOLB LANS ', AUomry (Jrnrml lUmpn Itulrx For !v M llie Jnptire. X ,H Tho right of altena to hold ianSs LL In Utah under certain conditions! )K ' M discussed In an opinion given to the V,W '.H stato land board by A. It, llnrnus, 'Z M attorney general. He holds that n J: I JH corporation organised under, tho ! $ M laws or the stato or Utah Is a cltl- "t H xeu ot tho stato, and. If Its articles M confer upon It the right to doat In . M Innds, It has tho right to purchase , t'LH and hold stato landi, even though , M every mom bo r of tho corporation Is 'i i xH an H Tho opinion was rendered at the- ' , H request of tho board In connection), U M with tho application of tho K, Hash- M Imoto company, of which tho lucor- , '; M poraters are Japanese, for tho pur- . ?; M chano of two sections or Isnd in . M Millard county Tho attorney gen- ' ' jB eral holds furthor, however, that iy H tho lands cannot bo sold to aliens ' M by tho corporation. an M Tho board purposes to go through Itf H tho articles of Incorporation care- 'h ' Ll fully n order to sscertaln Just what I? jjM powers and latltudo are granted, B nnd will announce Its decision on 1' ; ' tho applications later. ' ' , SHV |