Show PROPOSED AMENDMENTS To the Constitution of the State of Utah SUBMITTED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION Only Three Changes Suggested But They Are of Great Importance The Report Made by Hon F S Richards and Hon W H Dick son At a meeting of the State Bar association as-sociation of Utah held on Feb 8 1S97 Hon Charles S Varian the president was authorized to appoint a committee of two to prepare certain amendments to the constitution and confer with members of the legislature in relation to the adoption thereof In pursuance of this authority Mr Varian appointed Messrs F S Richards and W H Dick son to prepare the desired amendments and on Wednesday these gentlemen appeared before the joint judiciary committee of the legislature and explained ex-plained the effect of the amendments which are as follows The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Utah the qualified Is hereby submitted to qualfed electors of the state for their approval or rejection namely That section 9 article S be amended so that the same shall read as follows Section 9 From all final judgments of the district courts and from such orders and interlocutory in-terlocutory decrees of said courts as I mat 0 nrovided by law there shall be a right of appeal to the supreme court The appeal shall be upon the record made in the court below an1 under such regulations as may be provided by law In equity cases the appeal may be on questions of both law and fact in cases at law the appeal ap-peal shall be on questions of law alone Appeals shall also lie from the orders and decrees of the court in the administration of decedent estates and In cases of guardianship as shall be provided by law Appeals shall also He from the final judgment of Justices I j of the peace in civil and criminal i cases to the district courts on both I questions of law and fact with such limitations and restrictions as shall be restrictons provided by law and the decision of I I the district courts on such appeals shall be final except in cases involving the validity or constitutionality of a statute I The following proposition to ameni the constitution of the state of Utah is hereby submitted to the qualified I I electors of the state for their approval or rejection namely That section 22 I article 6 be amended so that the same shall read as follows Section 2 The enacting clause of every law shall be Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Utah and no bill or joint resolution shall be passed except with the assent of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the legislature and after it has been read three times unless In case of emergency I emer-gency twothirds of the house where such bill may be pending shall deem I expedient to dispense with some of I such readings but the reading ot a bill by sections on Its final passage shall In no case be dispensed with The vote upon the final passage of all bills shall be by yeas and nays and no law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title only but the act as revised or section as amended shall be reenacted and published at length The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Utah is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection namely That article 6 be amended by adding thereto an additional addi-tional section that shall read as follows tonal lows Section 32 Every bill and joint resolution signed by the presiding officer I I of-ficer of each house of the legislature I as provided in section 24 of this article I and signed by the governor or passed by both houses over hs objections as I I provided in section 8 article 7 of this constitution and deposited in the office of-fice of the secretary of state shall In all courts be taken and treated as conclusive con-clusive evidence of its due enactment and authenticity The purpose and effect of these amendments would be to extend the right of appeal from district courts to the supreme court to cases of temporary i tem-porary injunctions and other similar decrees and interlocutory orders to permit the legislature In case of emergency I I emer-gency to dispense with the first or second sec-ond reading of a bill and to make the signature of the presiding officer of each house the approval of the I governor and the filing with the secretary sec-retary of state conclusive evidence of 1 the due enactment of bills and Joint I resolutions |