Show I OX XEJEI LJG TJIK pntnt ssiota or the Terri totial LeglsJaSure roeetfc Iwnt to soon to provide elton which is urgently needed The Territory is now practically without Irgslation lpomi TIt Important subject In which many thousands of itoinhib itanta nre often personally aiid pecu niarily IctciwioJ 1z the disposal l of estray animals aud the recovery of damages done by them The law RS It stands nuldoriic the rale of Impounded auteaU after being a J verlJi < lliutbroif not three of Uie JUtrict crt judges havevheld this urocedure t be Invalid btcaun i taking private property for public use without just t compensation Tlie proceeds of try eold by pound keepers I will h remembered go 2u a public ecliool fund Tue selling of cstrayg after being advertised I only i held to be unlawful on Uie further ground that the owner of property is entitled t havo hij day In cur War his property call b seized and eold In other won under thlsholdng an estray cannot lawfully be sold without due notice to orfcervlce upon the owner of tbeauimai Ilm This view I denied aud there are good lawyer who hold that cstrays may be sold with no more formality than property Is for taxes but the question 1 1 not been pasrti upon by the Supreme Cur of the Teri try ld until i hal be the rulings that hae been mae In the Istr tours t-ours wi doubtless be adhered to Thb It a vis jwunj keepers the owners of estrays all those who hac RiflereU damago from trespassing passing animal all in an anomalous anomal-ous position Portions of the present estray law n valid but its moM important provblous aru invalid and the situation is one tliat ell urgently t for prompt and InteUiguit I UVU uu w o me Ian tltu Surely in Mime of Uie older States I method of disposing e f t lray < < and of indemnifying suilerers therefrom has been jjcrfected and it would seem reasonable t < tupjxjse that the laws of some States which havo stood judidal te ts might eaiily be adapted to the needs of this Territory Terri-tory Probably there exists in Utah no moru prolific source of cniarrels among neighbor than uncertainty about the tiUe to ami the right to use water for irrigation The courts are largely without a guide upon this subject and are compelled to deduce their rulmgH upon It from the rules upn rm rle and aualogll often remote of equity and lak Jf cighbors between whom eltiUau honet dinerence liave no ineaua of dcflnitely determining which is right and when a man aojuireHa water right there is nearly always a cvazueiiess ana uncertainty regarding garding its amount extent cte 1 fc the whole question at water rights or property iu water In Utahis burdened with indefluite ness and uncertainty This sort of property i rapidly bco2ilng more valuable and tlie demand for gome legal means of fixing its quantity and precise nature I rb natur becoming e Ilph P 1T liw provides a procedure by I nliih file Ute to laud can 0 definitely nitely determined niel deermlne Why mt provide pro-vide 1 procedure by which tie right to wajef could also be clearly de n s mal or assigned n attempt was fie some yew t ago by the Legislature t provide mains by which claimants to I water could have their water rights rlght j determined ant recorded but thu act which aimed to accomplish thIs was fatally defective in thitit vcsted judicial auUiority In > vater com mipioners prIde for by It I con tray to the cspr < rs proviions of the iolaud law I ought not to be diHicult to device a > Iau iu harmony har-mony with the laws which limit the authority of the Legislature to fr vide a procedurewhereby water rights might b measured de termined recorded sold etc and ana such a law would obviate much litigation gation and illfeeling There are imny oUier suljecU ecd that demand the attention of our legislator but the above are among the mOt urgent and involve the interests of a many of the people as any that are likely to ar ke come before Uie Assembly akide from such a relatp to Uie public rcvtnue in whichof course allproperty owners are iuUri it > J |