Deseret Evening News | 1890-07-12 | Page 4 | Grounds of Challenge

(iiounJs of CltnHiTic. From a circular issued by the Utah commission containing Instruction-for the guidance of e.'ec-Uon e.'ec-Uon judges, the following is taken: Challenges shall be allowed at the Kills for cause, by any qualified voter, aud the judges of election, oi a majority of them, shall hear and immediately decide iiihui any challenge chal-lenge that may lie made. If the challenge is on account of alleged want of citizenship, and it appevus that the voter is a icrson of foreign birth, he-ball not be allowed to vote except on producing his naturalization naturaliza-tion papers, or proving that such papers have ben Issued and lo-t or destroyed. Ami if the voter, being a icrson of foreign birth, claims tin right to vote by reason that he ha become a citizen by the naturalize- lion ol his parents, the judges shah receive the vote ujion satisfactnrj oral proof, without requiring the naturalization papers of ttic parents. Challenges, and the question1, to be propounded thereuiuer, mu-t relate re-late only to Uie qualifications of th. voter under the Territorial law, or the acts of Congress.