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Show NKM'Sl'Al'KI! I.KGISI.ATIOX. Utah needs a law regulating the legal advertising of the state, both for l he protection of the public and the advertiser. Nearly every state in the Union has such a law, and Utah should lie no exception. The Utah Press Association As-sociation has proposed such a measure, and it has been introduced in the Senate Sen-ate by Senator A. O. Smoot, of Utah county. The proposed law is a fair and reasonable one, and The News would respectfully urge that the bill be passed. The following is a copy of the bill: A BILL FOR AX ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION PUB-LICATION OP NOTICES. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: Section I. That all notices and advertisements ad-vertisements provided for by law must be published in some newspaper published pub-lished in and having a general circulation circula-tion in the county or city in which said notices originate. Section II. The rate for printing and publishing these legal advertisements advertise-ments in newspapers "unless otherwise provided by law, shall be as follows: Each square of 10 lines, 13 ems wide, for the first insertion, $1; each subsequent subse-quent insertion for each square of 10 lines 50 cents. Each advertisement under 10 lines or each fraction of 10 lines shall be counted as a full square of 10 lines. Section III. The board of county commissioners of each county shall cause to be published once in a newspaper news-paper printed and having a general circulation in the county an abstract report of the proceedings of every regular and special meeting of the board of commissioners, including- the name and amount of each claim allowed and for the publication of such report, the rate shall be 50 cents per square of 10 lines. Section IV. No newspaper shall be deemed to have a general circulation in the county in which it is published unless un-less it meets the following requirements: require-ments: 1st. It shall charge a bona fide subscription sub-scription price of not less than $1 per year. 2nd. It shall have been published at least once a week on regular days for a period of six monthe next preceeding the publication of any notice required to be published by law. 3rd. It must have a bona fide subscription sub-scription list equal to two per cent of the total population of the county in which it is printed. Said population shall be estimated according to the published pub-lished reports of the United States census cen-sus returns of said county. Section V. The county commission- ers or other officers before giving any newspaper a notice required by law to be published, shall once each year require re-quire an affidavit from the publisher, manager, chief clerk, or proprietors, showing that his paper is a newspaper of general circulation as defined in Section IV of this act. Section VI. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Section VII. This act shall take effect ef-fect upon publication of the Session Laws. |