Show GENERAL ELECTION THE time for halding our out annual election is ij near at hand haud scarcely three weeks remain until the firso first monday bf 0 august will be here members of t the he territorial house of representatives and several county officers will be elected olf on that day the county clerks of the various counties will doubtless give time timet i ly public notice of what officers are to tobe toba elected an am election of delegate delaga e to t the 0 louse eouse house of representatives at washington hill 9 will also be held on that da day from rom the first election until earl eari early lasty last year r I 1 there has always been an interregnum of several months when the territory has not had a delegate to represent it this was from the ath of march when each congress ended until the fi first monday of the succeeding august in case of an extra session convening utah would be without outa a delegate tore to remedy this a law was passed which was approved jan jan Tan 10 enacting that an election of a delegate to the house of representatives for the fortieth congress should be beheld held heid on the first monday of february 1867 the delegate for the forty ah finst first st congress shall be elected at the general election on the first monday of august 1868 and biennially thereafter county clerks and others interested in elections should keep this law in m mind d I 1 |