| Show THE HE PAST SESSION last being the closing one ortho orthe pre sent Session of our oar territorial legislative assembly the honorable members of the council and house were busily engaged clearing off the business that remained to be attended to A large number of bills were before the body at an early hour in the evening but a determination to clear the tables leswith tab irith dispatch was manifest and although there was some animated discussion on a number of points the sound gound practical sense of the gentlemen display displayed fin their confining themselves to matters otreal of real interest and eschewing everything like useless verbiage measures were reviewed with a full fall sense of their importance and the welfare of the community and were disposed of with a degree of unanimity which showed that private ends were not sought to bo be reached but that the representatives presenta tives of the people endeavored to the public welfare at a rather lato late houri hour ast last night both houses met in joint session for the transaction of business which required the united action of the assembly and the following officers were elected zate 1 probate judge ge of utah tah county lion hon john taylor a I 0 r probate 0 a e judge of wasatch county abraham ra a hatch a probate abate judge of summit county arza E hinckley Inc kley kiey district attorney of the 2nd and judicial district of the territory ol 01 utah william snow notary public for san pete james C brown notaries Not aries public for iron county john L mcfarland and calvin C pendleton notary public for morgan county george davis notary public for tooele thoele county david henry caldwell Caldw eU regents of the university of deseret david 0 OC alder calder and brigham young jun treasurer of the university of deseret thomas W ellerbeck director of the penitentiary alexander C superintend denhof the wasatch wagon road le grand young session being dismissed each house resumed Us its business which was soon got through with and the seventeenth legislative assembly of of utah dissolved the labors labora of the tho assembly which has just closed its session have been onerous but they mave have not been retarded by party speeches nor partisan feelings politics according to the ordinary acceptation of the term have not been introduced the welfare of the community and the tho interests ot of the territory have beef been deen the objects which the members labored to promote and though free and sometimes animated discussion characterized the tho deliberation of the assembly there was no contentious wrangling no wasting of time in acrimonious debate over unimportant points and no effort to compass private and selfish objects to the detriment orme orthe of me public interests but the tho action and de libe ilbe liberations nations rations ons of both houses were dignified patriotic disinterested th that of men who appreciate ed the position of having a great public trust confided to them which the rights of their constituents and the good of their country claimed they should faithfully and honorably discharge we can commend the example of the legisla legis a tive assembly of utah just dissolved to oth er legislative bodies throughout the republic ful ly satisfied that to copy after it would bo be productive of much good to the nation at large in the bills which passed the assembly d during the past session and received tho the approval of the governor of which we append a listef list of the principal ones the results of the labors of our late legislators will be seen this much must be understood however they did not copy from books of statutes but originated the measures adopted with an understanding of the public wants and of necessity much labor was performed that a bare recital brecita I 1 of the acts passed could convey no idea of many measures e rejected and governor durkee vetoed thre three e acts the following acts had bad their origin in the council an act amendatory and supplementary to the charter of st george a repealing act memorial to congress to pay for certain public printing an act concerning Coroners justices of the peace and inquests In quests an act incorporating corp orating mount pleasant in sanpete San pete an act amendatory and supplemental to an act establishing tab lishing a territorial road from salt lake city to Wan wanshin wanship ship summit county an act amending the charters of incorporated cities in utah a joint resolution in relation to indian eions a memorial to congress praying for aland office in utah an act changing changing the name of great salt lake city and county to salt lak lake e city and county an act changing the name of richland county to kich klch county an act incorporating po deseret city in billiard county an act amen dingan act prescribing certain qualifications necessary to enable persons to be eligible to hold office vote or serve as jurors an act incorporating parowan carowan Pa rowan iron county an act authorizing thor izing the governor to appoint commissioners to take acknowledgements acknowledge ments of deeds or other contracts and affidavits and depositions in states state and other territories of the united states an act prescribing rules and regulations for the execution of the trust arising under the act of congress for tor the relief of the inhabitants of cities and anda towns upon the publio public I 1 lands and a in memorial to Congress foran ronan 10 me the expenses of the late inte indian war the house house gave birth to the th following measures an act extending the boundaries of Co coalville alville in summit county acts incorporating smithfield franklin and richmond in cache county Kays kaysville ville vilie in davis dayis county morgan IB in morgan count county ephraem Ephr alm in sanpete county tj i and cedar city an fn n iron ron county an act in relation bionto to interest an act changing the county seat of morgan be co an act def det defining ining luing the eastern boundary ii co the territorial appropriation bill bin an act authorizing the location relocation re ol 01 the territorial road from wanship wanshin to summit co defining the meaning orthe term common schools iund fund in relation toa holthe the further duties of county and territorial superintendents of common schools a resolution authorizing thor izing the removal of the utah library to the cl city til hall an act making provision for foz printing an and I 1 distributing the laws and journals of these the seventeenth annual session an act to amend an act creating the domce of selectmen and prescribing their dutle salso the duties of county courts and an act to provide for con eon convening convenio th the eighteenth e and subsequent sessions of the legislative lattee assembly th these se with the other business which the assembly attend attended d to mackenn make an I 1 industrial n du record fr for the seventeenth ve ath annual sess session ion lon of lature |
