Show the tha judges to count the votes the committee appointed by the tha con conven convention lion to request the utah commission to make necessary provision for submitting the PrOPOS constitution to the vote or the people at the next gotter al election to be ba held on OB the first monday louday Al in august auguet have bare ie received calved the following SALT HALT LAKE CITY UTAH july 59 1887 john K R Ji linder S R thenan Thun Th unan nan james sharp wan eit JV dusenberry and L IV Mur murther thir committee or of the tha convention GENTLEMEN I 1 am instructed by the utah Com commiedo a lu response to your communication or of tali d baloi miss to lo say y that the subject matter thereof was tub sub rallied milled to them and that hit la in reference there to lo the be following foito wi g resolution resolution was adopted by this comm as on viz the utah commission having cou con alfered the proposition of the committee from the con convention vendon of delegates to frame a constitution now BOW sitting in isalt lake laka city making a proposition that the CO commission in shall take lake charge of ofaf as election for the adoption or rejection or of tho the proposed constitution to a vote vole of the tha people of the tha territory at the next next august election are of the opinion that ilia the tha commission has no express authority to 0 o take any official offiel 1 a I 1 notion tion on said eald proposition but comai considering d er ing the fact represented to the Comm Vision that said gald proposed constitution will con tells talo a prohibition of the tha institution and practice of polygamy y which prohibition Is contemplated ted by the act of congress under w which b iob the commission Is acting and a further prohibition la is contemplated b by y the BOI act of congress under which the corn cc m nals mission sion I 1 Is s cling acting and a of the u union n ion of church and state ill ibo a commission are willing to recommend to the judges of the election lo in the d Iffe reut precincts of the territory that th at they may twelve receive all the ballots which may be cant by the qualified voters of the various pro pre cin ate in said faid proposition and deposit the be same la in sev erate boxes boxes to be provided by the iba conventions convention and when the election 6 ball ha be closed to canvass the tha ballot so deposited andi nd biake make ol of the vote cast to mush authority as the aba convention may provide I 1 am very respectfully W 0 III ALL secretary of the tha utah commission Comm lasion |