| Show qualification FOR FOB OFFICE J D MCINTOSH of of st john jobu tooele thoele county addresses to us the following communication in th the mews of dec lin in reply to a question propounded by mr ar thur you stated that mat a school trustee must be a regi reentered ired voter would you please quote quate the mecum secum of aa law which says so BO it if art ari individual who is not loot registered is elected to the office of a school trustee bv the registered voters of a district and said trus ee subscribes to the iron clad oath and is qualified by the county court according to law would the proceedings Of Stich trustee be illegal by answering tile the above you yon will oblige a number of your readers in the article to which our correspondent alludes the nicas should have stated that a school trustee must be a h qua qualified liged instead of a registered leist egister t ered ed voter in order to be eligible to the office registration is a preparation for voting but bulls is BOS not bosa a qualified deat ion tor for office under the laws in force in this arv territory atory in 1859 1839 the legislature posited passed an act prescribing certain qualifications necessary to enable a person to be eli eligible elig gigle iole to hold office vote or serve as a juror of which sections 3 and 6 are arc as follows SEC 3 no person shall be elected or appointed appin ted to any territorial te district county or precinct unless he shall have been a cou constant in this territory during at least one year next preceding such election or appointment neither shall any person be entitled to hold any office of trust or profit in the territory or vote at ac any aay election unless lie he is 19 a male citizen of the united states over yo oue years of age and oas nas been a constant resident ot of the territory during the six months next preceding said election ur ap see sec G no person shall be deemed a resident resi deat wit lin in the meaning mea ing of oaths laws act unless he is a taxpayer ayer in this territory 11 such was the law in relation to this ct until the registration act was wa passed in 1878 tt act prescribes registe registration stion as a condition on ahl which leh the elective franchise in baay oe be eyer ecer alsed hue buc it does not affect tae conditions relating to th the official tran caise I 1 I 1 in n what wight perhaps be tei aged a official manner school commissioned Commissi Commiss ionee williams willi ams has i a sed upon a case precisely similar to tue tae one chica our correspondent evidently retard refers to in a town in rox gox 0 ider elder county a man whose name was not on the registration liat was elected to the office of school tru trustee otee A dis gussion cussins aro aroe e as to his eligibility and commissioner williams was asked to give ive an orin lon upon the subject he lid did so affirming the eligibility of t the e candidate substantially holdi hold lair re reads gis ration to be a condition prerequisite pre requisite to ovo lotins ting but not to being dated tor for la in addition to the qualifications for office required by territorial law the so called tucker edmands act of congress ribes a test oath We ideo atheal with t tle tie le one taken by the voter oa being registered this oath taken by aa officer elect answers every purpose of equity that is of as well as if if administered for the purpose of registration the elective and official franchises are thus put upon the same plane so far as the oath is concerned |
