| Show school soho officers ficeri Of meeting tile the following is ia a synopsis of the minutes and doings of the school of beers association of davis county that convened in the court house 11 ouse a at t farmington 1 amin glon on august loth 1896 districts 0 nos and 15 being represented the calendar for the ensuing school year was wag arranged as follows first term to commence sep 1896 and end nov second term to commence nov and end jan third term to corn com mence feb 3rd ard 1897 and end and apr aar 10 fourth to commence april and end june january february april loth and slay may are designated as aa legal holidays the following are answers by state superintendent park to legal questions quest t asked by county superintendent porter salt lake city august 0 13 1896 supt bupt N T porter jr farmington tono ulah dear sir 1 I have received your official official fical of communication of the ath list in which you ask canoom can women whose names do not appear on the taxpayers list vote on oil questions of taxation 9 answer in elections where property qualification is recognized as essential to the right of a person to vote such evidence as the law requires to establish this fact must be given 0 given if demanded tax lists and tax lax receipts are the usual form of tuch buch evidence the fact that a married man holds a tax lax receipt or that his name appears on the taxpayers list is is supposed to indicate that he represents at least by implication a joint property properly interest with willi his wife but such an inference does not maintain in this casz case and fails to establish in the wife the property qualification of a voter since the law gives women SS as full and independent recognition 0 as property owners as men the exactions of the law therefore must be literally carried out in this ibis case and women the same as men irien must show that in their own right 0 they are taxpayers again you ask under what I 1 conditions may women become citizens other than by taking out the usual papers of naturalization answer the children of naturalized citizens of united states being under the age of twenty one at the te time lime of their parents naturalization iza tion shall if dwelling dwelli ug in ili the country be deemed citizens thereof revised Ke statutes of the united states section 2172 2nd and wives of cit cithens zens natives or naturalized if capable of natural iza liou tiou are arc to be deemed citizens revised ged statutes of tile the united states stales section 3rd ard widow and children of one who has made the preliminary declaration but dies before his admission as a citizen upon taking the oath prescribed by law shall be deemed a citizen revised statutes of the alic united states stales section 2168 do women have the right to vote on the choice of a school building site answer no unless they are registered taxpayers the above citation cover I 1 believe tile the exceptions to the usual procedure for naturalization yours truly I 1 J it park state sept of public instruction superintendent porter spoke on oil the necessity of libraries elbr irie in the schools apal and the subject was trai utti tir wards pretty thoroughly thoron gilly disease discus tell tile the trustees favoring the same tl TI e superintendent also recommended that the school rooms be amply sup sap plied with blackboards blac kb prof H A of salt lake city made a proposition to the school officers to visit the respective schools and teach the children at the rate of one cent per lesson for each pupil ile he showed the advantages of professional instructions all seemed in favor of his proposition some of the vac vacancies arcles in the llie advisory board caused by the recent election were filled fill ed by J D wood ot of Farming loii M al brown of south bountiful the fifth member bemb p r of the board who should have been selected from east bountiful was not chosen as there were no representatives senta tives present so the nominating dominating of said officer was left to said district list L E abbati was ivas elected clark clerk A motion carried to the effect that if the state board failed to make the contemplated twenty five per cent raise in the valuation of real estate in the county that the county commissioners ners be asked to give the schools one half mill more county coulty tax adjourned to nov 1896 at 10 a in L E abbott secretary protein |
