Show WORDING OF PETITION UNDOUBTEDLY EDLY EDL Y CORRECT At At the next regular meeting of the county commissioners says this weeks week's Vernal Express H it is probable that action will be taken regard regarding ng the petition now waiting their approval for forthe forthe forthe the annexation of 62 rods of territory to Duchesne county The petition is on or file but will come up at nt the r regular gular meeting the first Monday in June It will vill be submitted toa vote in Novem- Novem ber bel The petition is signed by eleven residents of the territory included between between be be- twe tween n the eastern edge of the disputed district and the section line two sixty sixty two rods east of there These voters are beyond a doubt legal residents of Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah county Hence there will be no question regarding the legality of the legality of the petition ODonnell O'Donnell and Calder and Chas DeMoisy of this city drew it up and they are positive that there can be no question as to its le legality legality le- le and that this will settle the question However th the Duchesne Record Record Record Rec Rec- ord thinks it has found a in the woodpile and remarks as follows No one residing in the disputed area east cast of the meridian has signed the petition which therefore for the purpose of the proposed election assumes assumes assumes as as- that the territory in doubt is in Duchesne and not in Uintah county leaving open to o attack the question of twenty-five twenty per cent of the voters in the doubtful territory signing the petition to the the county county Bounty board The Record does not presume to question the opinion of either Mr DeMoisy DeMoisy De De- Moisy or ODonell and d Cald Calder r rand and it has the highest regard for the judgment of either on legal matters We Ve are however just a little bit skeptical skeptical about whether the Express reporter reo re- re reporter porter has correctly understood the attorneys attorneys attorneys at at- in the matter That the petition petition petition pe- pe as prepared by them them- conforms absolutely to the statutes we think noone no rio one has raised the slightest quest question on but whether the legal number of signers sign sign- r ers rs have appended their names to the s of instrument we lean strongly to the suspicion that tha attorney has expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed himself either in the affirm affirmative rma- rma a- a I tive or the negative I To 10 the Record it seems that if the meridian is really the eastern boundary line of Duchesne county i n then according to the Utah statutes the petition should nave contained a majority of the names of the v voters between the meridian and and the theine theline theline line ine which it is proposed by the peti petition petition petition peti peti- tion to make the eastern boundary However the statutes statute may be wrong and the governors governor's proclamation creating treating creating creat treat ing t this is a county may be wrong and instead of the meridian being the eastern ea tem boundary it may be somewhere else in which event we presume in the absence of knowing anything to the contrary the petition containing the eleven signatures is correct |