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Show PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION ! 1. ARTICLE 11 OF THE CONSTITUTION. RELATING RE-LATING TO COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE CREATING CRE-ATING OF NEW COUNTIES. Be it resolved by ide Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two houses concurring: Section 1. That it is proposed to amend Section 1, of Article 11 of the Constitution ef the State of Utah, so that the same shall read aa follows: 1. The several counties of the Territory of H-lah H-lah existincr at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, are hereby recognized as divisions of this S rate and the precincts and school districts now existing- in said counties as legal subdivisions thereof, and they shall so continue until changed by law in pursuance of this article. The Legislature Legisla-ture may by general law provide for the formation of new counties, and locating the county seats thereof. Every county which shall be formed from territory taken from any other county or counties shall be liable for a just proportion of the existing debts and liabilities of the county or counties from which such territory shall be taken. Provided; that no new county shall be formed unless un-less a majority of the qualified electors voting in each part of the county or counties to be dismembered dismem-bered shall vote separately therefor. Section 2. The Secretary of State Is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the State at the next general election in the manner provided by law. Section 3. If adopted by the electors of th State, this amendment shall take effect January Janu-ary 1st, A. D. 1913. State of Utah. Office of theSecretary of Utah, 88. I, Charles S. Tingey, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing forego-ing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution proposing an amendment to Sectien 1 of Article XI. of the Constitution of the State of Utah, relating re-lating to counties cities and towns, and providing for the creating of new counties. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Sea) of the State of Utah, at Salt Lake City, this 22nd day of August, 1912. seal C. S. TINGEY, Secretary of Statt |