Show I Iii g q Governor Eli Ell ir II Murray lun In his annual report s ed in 1883 to I the secretary Of ot the Interior in i speaking ot of the appropriation of I Stansbury and Antelope islands in Great Salt lake for the sole and exclusive ex ex- elusive use and benefit of ot the Perpetual Per Per- Emigration Fund lEnd company the same to b be under the exclusive control of ot President Brigham Young said I Here Is a I Primary disposal o of tho the soil of the United States by a territorial legislature not to an Individual in individual In- In but to a n. church and the head of ot a Ch church church certainly certainly a law respecting the establishment of ot re religion re- re ligion One fact tact is conclusive that by the territorial legislative enactment enactment enactment enact enact- ment the church was formally de declared declared do- do dared the in Utah and that is that all escheats were turned over by bv law to the Church Emigration com company pan by the probate probate probate pro pro- bate Judge judg of ot each county who was empowered and required to take possessIon of ot all property left lett by any deceased or 01 absconded person when there Is no legal claimant known or sufficiently near to see seeto seeto seeto to to it in season The governor then hen calls attention to section of the compiled laws of Utah published published published pub pub- by authority in 1 iga ant anti and then asks the question Were Yere nov no these thebo laws respecting an esta establishment establishment establish establish- lIsh- lIsh men ment t of ot religion Quoting again from the report Governor Murray says By act of ot the legislature and approved December December De De- cember D 9 9 1850 it wa was ordained that Brigham Young have the sole control control control con con- of ot City Creek canyon anyon and that he pay into the public treasury there tor Similar acts and without without without with with- out c consideration were I granted ranted at different times to Heber Hebe C C. C Kimbail Kimball Kim Kim- ball bail l Ezra T F. Benson and other leaders leaders lead lead- ers era of the church An act appi oved January 17 1853 granted to Daniel I H H. Wells the right to erect ferries terries across the Green river and among other requirements it was provided that he ho should pay or o- cause to be paid 10 per pel cent of all the the th I proceeds proceeds proceeds pro pro- arising from the privileges gl granted Into the treasury of ot the Perpetual Emigration Iund Fund company com corn pany tany Daniel Hi Iii Wets Wels was and arid and ItIs it itis itis is still claim claimed d d for him the lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant general commanding Inc Nauvoo legion beside his official rank in the church While the the- foregoing acts were riot not a primary disposal of ot the soil they were more D By them was a disposal of ot the water waler and timber property o of the United States wIthout without without with wIth- out which the soil soli has baa no value A comman cornman school system pre pie I rails vails under the law In every in instance instance In- In stance known to me the schools I are established on the same flame lot of ground and anti under the same root roof II or in adjoining rooms adjoining rooms to the church churchward churchward churchward ward meeting houses The whole I system is under the control of and taught by elders of the church and th thousands who are taxed to for their I support do not and of ot necessity cannot receive any benefit by sendIng sending send send- ing lag their children there and do hot send them In a veto velo of an ah act malting making appropriations appropriations ap ap- ap- ap for tor general purposes among others was an tion for the erection of a new building for tor the Deseret university I 1 placed paced among my objections the theone oneS one that in all appropriations of ot public money received from taxes upon all classes clashes of ot citizens for educational educational edu edu- purposes they hould be made w aith th an unqualified provision t that at no sectarian doctrinal tenets should be taught or allowed to be e taught or 01 any particular belief beliet re- re of any teacher or officer thereof I r sinCerely el v regret that hat the legIslature legislature leg leg- and the governor could not in their conferences have agreed upon some plan by which nonsectarian taj ian educational work work should have been allowed to progress In a report of ot this character I tear fear I may no nOt prolong it in further further further fur fur- ther demonstrating the establishment establishment establish establish- ment of ot a system of government in Utah by a subversion of ot the congressional congressional con con- gressional enactment organizing it into a territory That t the government government govern govern- ment which being too fearful of at an infringement upon religious belief has permitted perm n agencies deriving their from the government to tomake tomake tomake make laws in hi the n past it that were and some rome of at them still are laws all of which were intended as far as possible to to establish a religion I This system continues in force with added growth of ot thirty years ears That while the government has permitted permitted per per- an unlawful government to exist there under usurped powers In part and this practical establishment establishment establishment of ot religion it has I regret le- le ret j-ret ret to Fa ray allowed its Us laws to be trampled up upon and nullified from year to year ear A |