Show CT Sot A DILL In Illation to the ItrsMcrlogof tot en and Conducting Elections and Imrndln SectionJ3S 213 and ilC oflhc Compiled Laws Utah lSSS relating to Keels Iraiivn and Election fjnapicr Section 1 lie I enacted by tlie Curemor and Lxgualnc Af tcmly of Ue Tcmiury of Ltah That brcion 235 of the Com ilei Laws uf Utah of 1SSS b 1 hereby amended bi striking out of tlie first line of sail section the words lint Monday of August and inserting In Hill thereof the word Tuesday net aner the first Monday Ivovember Sl That on or before the first dii of August In each year there hal appointed i registration e ficerfonaih county In Ihs Territory Terri-tory aud a registrar for each election elec-tion reciuet In the several counties thereof Before entiling upon the db harRC cf his duties each of said officers Mal take and subscribe an oath to faithfully erform the duties of his office and he hal enter Into a loud to the Territory of Utah with two or more good and suOlc lent sureties t L approved by and with said oath filed with tIle clerk of the prolate court of the county In which his ofllcial acts are to be performed the bond of Ute county registration officer hal b in the cum of one thousand dollanviud tile bud of the precinct regitrar hal bo In tile PUnS of five hundred dol lr comillloneJ rorthefalthrul performance per-formance of his official duties pr Se 3 There shall b an annual registration of voters in each election elec-tion precinct In this Femtory tho boundaries which in whole or in part are within the limits of any incorporated city in this Territory and It hail be the duty of each precinct pre-cinct registrarthcreln i toprovldohlm self with anoflice rhiihsnallbcsltu ated in some public and convenient place in tlie precinct ami b open to the public every week day during the first fifteen days of the month of September in tacit SpteDbr II year during the following hours From n am till 12 m from I pm till 5 pan IL from 7 p m till 9 pm during I whMi time he hal attend and register at his said office and at no other time or place nil jerM > ns entitled to vote in said cleetlon I e 1 precinct pre-cinct who I i appear before f at his office and there take and sbcrb the following oath or affir mton TEimrroBT OF UTAU 1 r s County j I 1 being duly nvrorn or af firmed depose and say that I mm over tnt ona yearn of age that I have rcideil in ISo Territory Utah for six months list pared and in this election precinct or In the Ielol precinct dod from which has been croaunl itblD the thirty lays la4 pan this election precincT as tho case may b for nne UlOliilulmeliaielv I preceding nu Dcr Dnu Ilat L am D na live born or naturalized n the case may b citizen of tIn United Slates that my full namo K that I am years of ago yer that my place of businesses Nn a that my place of residence is that I am a tingle i or married > man that the name r my lawful wife is I and that I will Constitution Con-stitution of Ibo United Slates and will faithfully II obey the laws DnL and especially will obey the act of Congress approved March 16S2 entitled 1An act to amend Section 5X > J of 115 Ie visej Statutes of the United State in reference to blcamy and for other purpose pur-pose and that I will also obey the act of Congress of March 3 1157 en lt titled An act to amend an act en tn titled An act to amend Section Mil uf tho Kerised Statutes of Ito United Mates in reference to bIgamy an < 1 for other purposes approved March 22 rnu rn lSB2m respect of the crimes in salt ac defined and forbidden and tlmt I will not directly or Indirectly aid or abt counsel or advise any other person per-son to commit any of said enmei de 1 fined liyacuof Congress as jwl garar bigamy unlawful cobabilaliou Incest adultery and fomlcoionthat I am not ubminist n lypinibtIorll tug in nn I i awful cohabitation associating or co habiting polygamously with persons of tho other sex anil that I have not been con iced of tile crime bigamy polygamy unlawful cohabItatIon l In I cest a Jnlterr or fornication Subscribed and sworn to before Subrb wor belor mo tbisdavof AD ItS I Rtrr forlcecinct County Upon receIpt said oath or affirmation affir-mation the registrar In the presence I oC voter I 1 I h 1 upon the un registry list of the voters u I of the election precinct in which ho I resides and all of such oaths or affirmations and tho I atrUons registration 11M shall b delivered bj the pre duct registrar t the clerk of tiio probate court of the proper county prpr I at least thirty days prior t any election for which they maj have Uen taken and prepared and they shall 0 public records therein anil subject t InspectIon and examina tion by any J eOn applying to tee them during usual business hourn Sec 4 Oijectlons to Lie Sl O eetou right to vote oC any iierson registered shall he I hon determined by a hal I of three persons who shall 0 nn pointed annually in the same manner man-ner as tile registrationofficer none of whom shall have acted a n regis motion officers or precinct registrars during the registration durn reItmton Immediately preceding the filing of OUCh oljec lion or 0 candidates for any olllce to b filled at the next ensuing nlyote ellc tion not more than two of the members of such board hal belong to the same political party if there tlr be more than one johtical 1 par in such election precinct and one of them shall be of the jolitical party which was in the minority at the last preceding election if any such party there b in such election precinct pre-cinct and where there wher thr are three political part es therein one mem tIer oC such board shall 0 selected from each of such ris The ob jection shall be In writing and shall specify thegrounJi of JI disqualifica lion and tile burden ef proof r to sus lain the objection shall ntt upon the oljec tor Decision hal 0 reniitreil aud announced on each I objection within fortyeight hours after the hearing thereof and a list 1 of the names oren 1 stricken off shall be pottd at the sama I lace ot registry list Is posted at Kist eicht days immediately preceding tile lnllg tlO election See L Section US of the Compiled Com-piled Laws of Utah ISSS is hereby Ierby amended by sinking out of the fourth line of said section the word fifteen and inserting iu won Jie thereof the words twentyfive Sec C Seton 2B of the Compiled Com-piled Laws of Utah of ISbS is rk hereby amended by striking oat the won fifteen in the tenth line of sid section and inserting in lieu hereof tho woruVtwent Iu eand hy striking out the word firth in he sixteenth line of said ectlou HtOU anJ WON inserting tenth In lieu thereof the bee 7 Each precinct bal constitute con-stitute an election sUuto ellcton precinct for Coun ty and Territorial general elections eLtons and the boundaries of no election elton precinct shall he l changed within seventy days prior to any such general gen-eral election unless I shall appear to the County Court of the county In which such electlou precinct Is situited that there are more prlntt than five hundred legal t voters resldlus therein in which > the County Cunt Court shall prjcccd t create within and fur such or sch precinct two or more election precincts as hiri inafter In this section prm ided Whenever It shall appear from the registration its ile eenral IT s Ibt ber pltnh precinct i l nrerm election precinct i contains more thnn five hundred legal voters the IteslrtmtlonOfficer haingthe cut of such lists shall immediately report the fact to the Probate J udge and Cleik of the County Court of the County in which such election precinct i situated and t the Secretary of the Territory and such Probate Tertry Prhate Judge and Clerk nhall forthwith ndg members of the County Court and such County Court shall ID mediately meet and create within and for such crt two or more election precinct and make such election precincts Ieton as prcinct a compact in form and equal In popes lation as miy be so that there shall not be more than five hundred voters In any ono election precinct and no election precinct shall be Iha b made out of mde parts of any two or more precincts nor shall the boundaries boun-daries any election precinct be changed within thirty SO days prior to any general election WithIn With-In ten days after the creatlin of any new election precinct and prior to the first ensuing general election the Ilegistratlon Officer for such new octoa precinct If such officer shall have been appointed end if not then the neRiitntlon Officer tteelectionnreclnctfrom which tlie neW election precinct was e atoll sliall prepnre I registration list for such new election precinct SlId place tlitreon the names ol all the registered voters residing In the new election precinct and strike the names of all 1 such persons from the t 1I eltL registration list I of any cthir election elec-tion precinct from which the new election precinct lay hate been coated There shall 0 but one palling place In each election Ire clod and but one ballot box used at any election therein And the voters shall vote In the election precinct pre-cinct in which tlie > resIde Sec S Any tierem oTiring to Inl alk ft otc noy lie ehallengetl at the poll by any registered voter moo any of the following grounds L That hob not a citizen of the United States 2 That he is not the person registered regis-tered and upon whose name he I offering t vote LTllatlIe lias not resided In the Territory for the six months tome registration diately preceding the date of his rllUOD 4That he has not resided iu the election precinct In which he offers tovote or in the election precinct ofes from which was created the election I nxJnctln which 110 o mea In rntp for ono month linneilintely preced i lug the date of his regMrUion or that he does not at the time of the election reside in the election lir duct in which ho offers to vote 5 That lie has rerelved or agreed to receive for himself I or for au otliT any money reward or other valuable conIderation for his veto at such election If a ierson offering to vote is challenged chal-lenged a unqualified I by any elector elec-tor one of the judges of the election shall In a district voice administer to him the following oath or affirmation You do oolemnlj swear or affirm that you wilt fully and truly answer all uch questions n shall b jut to you touching your place of residence and qualification as an elector at this election eklon FljitI C the pron Is chillciiRed n unqualified on the ground that he is not a citizen the Judges or ono of them shall distinctly put to him the following question IAre you a citizen of Ihe Unite I States 2Arts you a native or natural ized citizen clzen 3 lEave you become citizen of the United States by reason of the naturalization of jour parent or one of them prnt bWilere were your parents or pruf one of them naturalized I tho person cllerlng to vote claims that he I s a naturalize cltl zen of the United Static ie shall state under oath where and Iu what court he nag naturalized Second If the person is dial leiiged on the ground that he I not the person registered and upon who name lie is ofFerIng to volt tho Judgex or one of them shall distinct put to him the following qu lonr lWilat is your name 2Vhat Is your age Areiou married or single 4hen I wr you registered t 5 1ily whom wer registered GI JjOti reside in this election 7hIow long last past have o resided in this precinctS precinct-S State Ute street and iumtur auL thereon If iny numbers there lie Ion I-on such street at which jcu reside I Third I the person I challenged u unqualified on the ground that ho has not nIL in tills Territory for the six months immediately pre oIling the date of his registration the judge or one of them shall < listlnetly put to him the following iiueslions lDlI you nestle In this Terri tory for the six mouths imincdl itely receding tile date of jour registration registra-tion tIfs 0 state here yea re IdeHl Tllave you been absent from this Territory xvitliln the I Teritr t1111 tu tight election months Immediately preccctling this I 4if P when you left was it for n temporary purpose with the design de-sign ofreturnlngor jldI you intend remaining awn 0Did you while absent look and and regard this upon nld raN Territory u your home 6Dil you while absent vote iunuj other Stale or TerrItory Fourth If the person is I chal lenged n unqualificuou the ground Irund that he lias not resided In the election precinct where he offtrs to vote or in the election prccinctfrom which was created after the voter regIs nI tered the election precinct In which ho oin r t vote for ono month Immediately Im-mediately preceding tho date of hh registration or that ho does not at the time of tho election reside In the election precinct in which lie n ln nl II II 1 them sliall dlstinctlj t nit to him the following questions I 1Are jou a resident of this election reclnct 2ifso when did you conic into this election precinct I X When jou came into tiiI Is ele lon precinct did you como for a temjiorary purpose or for the j ur IKWC making it your home Inr 4Vcre you for the Ihlrtj days Immediately pretidlm jour re gLtratlcn and arc you still an ac tual and bona lido resident of this nc election precinct or were you for tho thirty days immediately preceding pre-ceding your rvgiftratlon an actual aim oona nuo resident of the elec tion precinct from which has Let n created since your registration tills election precinct 5if the is person s challengej as unqualified on tho ground that he has received or has agreed to receive fur himself or for another any money reward or other valuable val-uable consideration for his vote at such election the fudges or one of them shall distinctly put t him tho following qUL tOm 1 Have you received or hive you agreed to receive either for jourwlf or for nnj other person any money reward or pnn naIl consideration for your vote at thl election 2 If so state what you received agreed t ret e I vc 3 From whom did you reeeive or agree to rIo It 4 I ag whom did you receive or agree to receive I The judge of the election or one of tin in shall jut all such other l llleI questions to the iCTbOli challenged i under the respective heads aforesaid afore-said as niayjbo necessary to test his qualifications as an elector at that election I lol H h anj I me person cnancngU Shout Shoutrefuse aforesaid sliall refuse t answer fully any question which hal b put to him a aforesaid the judges sliall reject his ote Sec 10 I the challenge be not wlthdnwu after the wiulru te person offering eflring to vote sliall have ot answered ties questions put to him as aforesaid one of the Judges of election shall In a distinct voice administer to him the oath or affirmation set out m SectIon 3 of this Chapter fee 11 If any person shall refute to take the oath or affirmation so f tendereJ his vote shall be rejected ProvIded that after such oath shall i have been token thc Jmtu ms nevertheless refuse to permit such person to vote if they hal be ti fled from record ovidence or other legal testimony adduced before them that ho I not a legal voter i and they are hereby authorized to administer the necessary oaths or affirmations t all witnesses brought before them t testify tho qua 1 fications of a person ollering to ot s 12 I shall b tho duty of each Judge of election t challenge any person offering t vote whom he shall know or suspect not t 0 qualified as an elector Sec 15 If any person challenged n unqualified t ote shall 0 guilty of wilful false and gnll wuul fl Ind corrupt swearIng or affirming iu taking any oath or affirmation prescrlLcil by this act such person shall bead Judged guilty of perjury anti upon J conviction thereof shall antler the i punLhnicnt attached bj the laws of UiU Territory tp perjUry Sec 1 Ifauyjudgoof the ee tioushall kpowinglj receive or rancjlon the WIIf a vote from any fen1 pot having all the qualifications of an elector prescribed pre-scribed by law or receive or sanction sanc-tion tho reception of a ballot from any person who shall refuse to answer an-swer ally persons which shall I be tf t l npmnlnneo with the provisions of tills I act orsball refuse PrviI Kindlon tliqref sal lijany other judgu of the board to which ho shall belong rdmlnlhter cither of the oaths animations prescribed by oths or aOmlaUons p rb y section S of this chapter shall b guIllMof mddemeanor Chapter 2 Capcr Sed J I That on or before tho first daj of April In the year 1S31 there shallbcappointed i 1 tin each i Incorpor steal rita la this Territory that I under un-der existing Jaw would dot out cot Jo the year 1S3I a regis t 7rn o itt for sueh city and a registrar foecacit municipal ele tion jircchiet in each municipal want therein and In the year ISO Pl L het anti lilennlally I I thereafter there shill b appointed a regIstratIon officer for tSeil incorporated city In tills Territory aJ a registrar for each iiiunlclpal election precinct in each inunlcijnl ward therein Before Be-fore entering upon the discharge of his duties each of ad officers shall takeanil subscribe an oath t faithfully faith-fully pVrfcnn the duties of his office nut hVshall J enter into a bond to the Territory of Uiah with I two or more good and sufficient sureties to I approved by and filed with the titre CI tile Jrhate Gourt of the county In which hh official acts are to be informed the bond of the city Hglitrayon officer shall lie hi tho sum of one thadtand dollars arid the tsiml of the election product pro-duct regitrara shall b In tho sum of five hundred dollar conditioned fur the faithful performance of his officlil duties prCornc Sco 2 Kncli municipal ward mnnlcp1 wan hal constitute election precinct for municipal elections and the boundaries of no election precinct shall be changed wIthin 1U1 cni < seventy dajsprior to any municipal election elec-tion unless I shall appear to the City Council of the city In which the election precinct is situated that thqm are more than five hundred hun-dred legal voters therein Ln Ill oter resIding therin In vrhlih case the City Councllshall proceed iu create within and for sell nmriclpal ward two or more election preclncti as hereinafter In this section provided Whenever shall appear from the registration registra-tion lists belli prepared for any eLton precinct that ascii election precinct contains more than five hundred legal voters the Registration Regis-tration Officer having the custody of such lIst shall In1ILlllely report rpr the act lo tho Mayor and City Recorder of the city in which such elton preclnet is situated and to the Secretary of the Territory all inch Maj or and City Recorder shall i forth with notIfy the members of tile Utl oln ell hal immedialelj meet and create within and for such CrLt wIhin auL or municipal munici-pal ward two or more election tatd mor eleton products ducts and make such election pre eimU as compact in form and equal In population n may b so that there bal not b more than five hundred voters In any one election precinct and no election precinct 10 be made out of f umrts of any too or more municipal wards nor shall the loundirles of any election be I changed within precinct elalll wihIn ono mouth prior to any municipal election elec-tion Withlu ten days after the creition of any new election pr I iuct and prior to the first ensuing raiinklal election the Registration Officer for such new election Onrr Iuch dtton precinct pre-cinct If Fjchcfllcertlnll havcbtcii ippointcd and bi If rot then the I IteKistratlou I Officer ct the election precinct from which the new cIte tlou precInct was created shill pro tirea registration list for such new election reclnct and place thereon tilt > names of all the registered voters rrsIJiiiK Ill tIle UCW elellen precinct and strike the names uf all Mich persons from the registration list of iny other electIon precinct from which the new election precinct may have Ken created Then hal be but one polling place in each vice Lion precinct and but 10n 11nolcl ono ballot balot box used at any election therein And tho voters shall vote ilo in tile i election precinct Iu h lint rILl Sec 3 There shall let a registra ton of voters In eacli municipal lect otr precinct In cich municipal lunlcpl ward of every incorporated city In thIs Ttrntor that under existing laws wOuld elect offictrs In the vent I I ISOI dune the tnt fiftet u days in tho month uf Juno In said year and there shin Ins a registration YCr voters In each municipal election precinct prcinc iu each municipal watd in every in corponteil city In this Territory In the yew 1592 antI biennially there afUr during the first fiHeen day In the month cf Jure in each ycir It I sha1 1 lie the duly of each election hini jrecinct 1 clf I with registrar an therein office which I to provide shall t osltuatcUinsx public aud con > etilcutltdcein the municipal cle ton precinct for which he I nr pomtejl and sliall 0 open lo tile luMc every week lay during the the frt fifteen days in the month o f June h1 each year during the following IIOLF from 9 I a m till 12 m from 2 p m till 5 p m and 71 iltJII from 7 i pi it till 0 p m during which tirnchc shall attend and tm hal ntend rep > Mer nt bls said re ntl f1 cffltc and at no other time or place all Ctbe lmo Ilt al persons en titled toAoto in said municipal else tle I f1 If mUlclrl lon precinct who shill appear be fore him it hi office ami Rppr anti utj ° crlbo the following oath or offir mattoL Itol TCI ntTonr OP UTAH 1 County r jL 1 1 being duly sworn or afllrau Uei > ose and fay that T am j over lucDtj ono years of age that I have icsldcil In tho Territory of Utah for six monrbs last rtuvsl ami Ill iiti election precinct or In tho election pre cinct roni Iwblch hu been crenlcd vithlii tbc thirty days last past tills election precinct a the case may bt for one month immediately preceding tile date hereof and tY am a los tIre born or naturalized a tho case be citizen of Ibe United e may b cllun Unied States thai my full name I thoU iny placsof t basilIca fso ofoge that that my place of residence I Jhati ama Jringltjtjrmanlod man that the nanioof my lawful vrtfo 1 anti that I will support the Constitution of the ulpr t mted i State ami will faithfully obey the lawn thereof and especially will obey tho Act of Congress approved JIarch tiA ISSi entitled appra amend seton lIt of the lEotbed Statntej of the Uiiite1 Slate in refer core 10 rer bialuy anti for olber por posessn1ihat Ia whit also obeytho Ac of Congress or March 3 ry cn titled tn ac 10 anneal an act cull lIed An act W anneal section flIT 2 of the Revise ilatutes eon United Sat < aiu rcfererco to bigamy and for other purposes approved Starch 2A apprc arb lW2j in respect Hie crimes in 2 will not dlrecUy or Indirect I aid mat nr i abet counsel or ad tlo olber < any per on r commit any of salu crimes pr focI by act of Congress M polygamy bigamy unlawful cohabitationT incest ailultery apt fornication that I am not a bigamist poyrtniLst or lIving In unlan ful cotiabliationorassocIatiDc orcornblllniipolysamously with per Jlymouly r ns ot Ihoolicr sex and that have not been convicted of the crmo of bigamy pol > gamy unlawful cohabit alion Incest pdiiltcry or fornication Subscribe and sworn to before me tb ay q A O 18 P t Registrar or Istatnsl In n h Unpn recjlpt of said oath or affirmation affir-mation the election jrcclnct ngls trarJii IhcjU rcsenco cf said voter ehali place I his name upon tile regis try lUtof the voters of the munIcipal election precinct in which hercsidcf and all of such oaths or allirniatious and the rcgbtrtion list bal be ele len by silO election precinct registrar t the clerk of the Probate Court of the county In which said cIty tltuaWl at least thirty days prior so nuy riection for which they may hae L soot taken and prepared anti they shall he lrpre I ehal public records therein and scilject I t inspection II and examination uy any person e3mnaton ly pTn all nljlnj to see them during usual business liouie I See4 4 Otjjections t the right looter lo-oter of any person l registered shall b beard anil determined by a board I of three persons who shall b ap pointed for each municipal ward in the same manner as the registration I officers are appointed none of whom shall have acted as regt < tra ton officers or election precinct registrars during the registration immedIately preceding tho filing of such oljectlon or be candidates for L any office to b filled I at tile next ensuing en-suing eleitloiij not mol thin two of the members of such baird shill A hlnln IA II I there ° be more than one i political p i party iu such election precinct and one of them shall boot the political party which was in the minority at the bst precedIng election If any such party there bo In such rnuiclpal election precinct and where then a three political parties therein one member of such loan shall bsllte from each of such parties par-ties The olijcctlon hallb In writing writ-ing alt shall tpcclfy tie ground of illtqtialltlratlou anil the bunln of proof sustain the oljectloil shall rest upon tho l oljector DecIsIon hill lu bo rendered and announced on all objections within fortyeight hours after the hearing thereof and a list of the uiuics stricken oil shall b posted at the same place the registry list Li posted at least eight das immediately preceding thei election electonS The proviions of Sections 89101 12 3aud Hof Chapter I of tills act me hereby mailo applicable ap-plicable to ail municipal elections Territory which may hereafter be held Iu this j Sec C All municipal elections that under existing laws would occur in the year 1591 shall take place on the first Monday In Autpist 1591 anil at such election all ol me ciec tlve officers for such cities shall b I elected for the term of one year and until their successors lIre electee and qualified and the terms of office of the present elective officers of such cities are hereby extended to thu first Monday In August ISOI and until their suCraro eleeteeiand qualified and on the first Monday in August 1S9J and biennially thereafter the elective officers of such cities shall b elcctttl for the term of two years nnj until their Miccesors are elected and qualified The term ofsjoffico of all elective officers of-ficers of all cities which under existing exist-ing laws would hold elrmunicipal elections In the ycr IS creittortby extended till the first Monday In Au ut lS9 ant until their successors success-ors are elected and quilified Elections Elec-tions shall b held on the first Mon dAY In August 152 and biennially thereafter for tile iurpcx > e electing 1 i elective I officers In nil of thu Incorporated In-corporated cities of this Territory whose terms of office shall he I two yearsind until their successors are elected and ekI qualified Sec 7 The terms of otc of all Territorial County ant Precinct elective officers to b elected under existing laws in August 1897 art I hereby extended till tillS Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 1SOO JaiiJ until their successors arc elected and quilifleci fccc S Tlil act hal tike effect 011511 Zt5 = |