Show comma TH THE E LAWSO lawo li UT NOV nofle 13 i the law concerning concertin co gi bools is scar scarcely eely worth the paper upon which governor govern 0 r harding in ill his I 1 it i ia printed informs the legislature v emal message of I 1 tl thai he was unable to find any ally law upon tile the subject in ill the statutes it is i possible po sibie that this remark was intended the law lav if howa liova is as a in upon i evir evi evl r he intended pre precisely cisel y what wh nt his language said he did not examine tile the statutes carefully else ho he would ha hai hase se e found on page S of 1835 the law upon the subject bearin bearing r dite date dec 30 1834 iba l and also upon page 7 S of 1861 2 an act jk et sup thereto there is ia no territorial school fund provided no provisions made for tue the sixteenth ind and thirty sixth sections n s of land after tho the indian inn ilin title is ext extinguished ingul ifield in ili fact the school la law amounts aft 4 to simply nothing r and tho the common schools are wholly sustained by such taxes as the people residing in the district nay may order T the lie does not oven even provide for a county school tax the writer is pleased to observe that the hie deseret news bics is stirring up lip tit the legislature oi on 1 this subject fin oil the other hand the sta statutes tute sare are ati cambered cumbered cumb ibfred ered with an all immense and militia inilisi a law and thousands of dollars have been appropriated to sustain it and to make inake this tin s expenditure hp al p pear ear mr marc oa lous loll no governor aside from froin brigham has is ever commissioned in an officer under the law or seen it a company to review brigham directs din aud bont controls rols tit the entire force uses aises it to guard his premises and escort him th through the territory the law requires the lieutenant general a big title to make annual report to the governor yet harding arding II 0 was compelled to send in liis his message sage without knowing anything about tile the militia of of tile territory it is not intended that any federal officer unless lie he chooses tobe a mormon shall know an anything y thing t the militia it is r served reserved y to execute I 1 when vilen necessary by armed for force ce if p possible Os ibl the counsel of the presidency for in i instance when brigham intended to resist all the passage ca of J johnsons army echo cation canon and dwyain sig 0 ain in the spring of 1863 when he be fl feared eare d 1 the six hundred on oil the hill 11 inte intended elded to arrest him in ili early days it was compelled to fight t the lie in order to secure a peace nom from bliem them but at that ti methe gover por nor and aBt Thead head or of the church dented in one person the ile militia Il itiL of the territory is designated the nauvoo le 9 gian all and is divided into nine military districts in addition there is a battalion of life guards in it salt sal t lake city not attached itt ached to any br brigade adem or ar o r divisi division which is subject in the word of tho the law at all times to the cull call of the governor and lieutenant general 11 this body of f men generally generall y guard premises and accompany him when on o n tours through the coun country |