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Show To Trustees And Others. Some Questions Answered By the State Superintendent of Schools. County Superintendent of Schools Mr. Mosiah Hall, is in receipt re-ceipt of the following letter from state superintendent of school, it is approved by the attorney general and is self" explanatory. Salt Lake City, Utah, June 22nd, 1896. At a meeting of the county school superintendents of the state held in this city during the late school teacher's convention, I was requested to issue a circular answering an-swering the following questions for the information of many school district trustees. I take pleasure in complying with the request. At the election for school trustees in the several districts of each county of the state on the second Monday in July, 1896, what will be the essential qualifications of a voter? Answer: A voter at such election elec-tion must be a citizen of tho United States, native born or naturalized: of the age of twent- one years or over; shall have been a resident of the State or Territory ; ; tstVtuirtor one year, of the county r for four months, and of the school district for sixty days, each period so named to be that next preceding preced-ing the day of said election. 2. Will women be entitled to vote at this election the same as men? Answer: Yes. 3. tfciU, women be eligible to the office of School trustee at this election the same as men? Answer: Yes. i 4. Will it be necessary for one to have registered in order to vote . at this election? Answer: No. 5. Will the trustees as judges of election also be judges of the qualifications of voters? Answer: Yes. John It. Park, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Ogden Standard. |