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Show rOLYGAMV AMU AMMESTY.. A It HI to Amend t!m Nttifulea Uelutivc 10 Folyieuuijr, fcic 1 Washington, 20. In the senate, to-day, Edmunds reported, for Chria-tiauey, Chria-tiauey, who is sick, from the judiciary judici-ary committee, aa a substitute for the pending hill, a new measure amending amend-ing the lievidod Statutes, bo as to pro- vida that every person who ha a ' husband or wile living, who, iu a ler- 1 ntory or other place over which the ( Uoiii-fStattM haa exclusive jurisdic-j lion, marries another, whether mar ittd or single, and any man who here ; alter simultaneously or at the same : marriea more than one woman, in j auy territory or other place over 1 which tho United Stales has exclusive jurisdiction, shall be deemed nuilty ol bigamy aud bo punianed by a lino not Jicre than $500, and by im- prisooment not morJ than five : y-ears; but this Beclion, shiill not extend ex-tend (0 any person by reason, of any . former marriage, whese husband or wife by Biich marriage ia absent for . five auBcesaive years, and is not : known to auch peraon to be living; nor to any person by reason ol any : former marriage which haa been ' dissolved by decree of acompeteut court; nor to any person hy reason of any former marriage which ha been pronounced void by decree of competent com-petent court on the ground of Ihe nullity of such marriage contract. 1 Tiio foregoing provisiona not to eflect the prouecution or punishment, of any offense already committed against the preaent law. The president presi-dent ia authorized to grant amui-aty to euch clashes of oOendeis against the ami polygamy law.oo auch conditions and under such limitations as he ahull think proper, but no bucu amnesty shall have effect unless tbe conditions thereof shall have been complied with. The issue of plural marriages, known as Mormon marriages, in caaea in which such marriages have lveu solemnized accordiug to the rilea of the Mormon sect, in any territory ot the United States, if such itaue shall have been born before Ihe 1st of November, 1879, are legitimate and shall be entitled to all tho rights of heirB and next of kin of their parents. , Polygamiata aro disqualified from performing per-forming jury duty. |