Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-09 | Page 23 | Legislature of '27 Recalls Old History of Utah

1 LEGISLATURE OF f 27 21 OLD W t I HISTORY Of First Assembly Met in Old House on n South Temple and M Main n At noon Monday seventy four legislators representing enUng the co n- n ties ot of Utah in t the he house ot of and the senate will to ta ethe e ethe the oath or of office In their chambers at the state capitol and the Seven biennial session will be un under under un- un der way The session will mark the gathering or of lawmakers V since statehood but will be the tho fifth fifty session since the organ or of government In the terr I rl tory t r Seventy eight years year 51 have swept over the last half or of the nineteenth and the first quarter 0 of the twentieth twentieth centuries since t itie he first Ie legg body was convened In Uti except It was called Deseret then and naturally the contrasts contrasts' environment and I issues ues are marked The first assem met on 1849 In the old Council house which stood on the southwest South Temple and Main streets and was destroyed b by tire fire In 1883 The fifty fifth gathering will one of the most magnificent statehouses state state- houses In the union The first see slon Sion was d doted devoted to solving pro lens lems ot of launching the ship or of state state the fifty fifth wilt will be with problems or of higher navigation of the good ship MOMENTOUS SESSIONS SESSION For a period of nearly two years yeary following the gathering of the fir firA assembly the legislators were la session for brier brief periods and anil the F adjourned gatherings ot of a few das ilas each or a a month or so were momentous mo mo- i on ones s for fOI the commonwealth common wealth just taking form In every enactment almost was what newspaper news news- paper folk call u a good storY story For Instance durIng the Bummer i fall and winter of 1849 60 there were created the counties of Grea t Salt Lake Weber Utah Sanpete Juab and Tooele the supreme supreme co tour f was as organized d and the University of Deseret now the or t Utah was chartered in r i 18 1850 After iter a rest of a mont montt I or o 0 early In 1850 the assembly re recon n on July 4 1850 In joint ees es sion during which a law was a passed taxing the sale of t tIng Ing liquors at 60 50 per cent ad va 1 l m On On Saturday Y October October 1810 a specIal sessIon was wass carte for the purpose of enacting a las las' l w which would permit the organization lion tion of Davis county The third regular session Rai r December 2 1850 anil r. r lEr I sitting four days Monday January 6 1861 The ad adjourned session continued until 1 January 17 11 when a recess was taken taken ta- ta ken until February 4 On the latter date the assembly convened oni i ito to recess until Mauch 1 28 The March session lasted just two days when recess was taken until April on which date the assembly was WA dissolved BECOMES UTAH TERRITORY During the intermittent meetings of 1850 61 Iron county was organized organized or or- and the cities of at Salt Lake Lak Ogden Provo Manti and Parowan Parowan were chartered acts were passel prohIbiting the sale Hale of firearms ammunition and liquor to the 10 Indians In- In and prohibiting prohibiting- the operation of saloons and dens denH of vice With the dissolution of the first s came its merger into territory of Utah The first assembly was the le IJ body or of the provisions provision government before the creation ot of the territory by congress an and be before be- be fore definite bounds were known The area over which the provisional government might well have east exer Its power comprised a a. vast district limited only by the natural eastern and western barriers the oc-the he and the Sierras l few rew years before the district ad d been Mexican territory J j The formation of the tho ot of the e Utah under the government United States was preceded bya joint resolution of the two houses l lof of the assembly adopted March 8 8 ct 1851 based upon a special message from Governor Brigham Young i crated March 26 requesting be made for the R iron tion to t the e from the provisional ti Continued on following page C