Show TRIBUNE blundering legal 11 16 lit on oil the territorial school laws 0 EDITOR HERALD under caption I 1 blundering in to o days salt lake tribune it ellin blunders d er most on oil tho school laws it insists that section 2 of chap chapter ter 19 statute of 1880 seas sm ada act page 27 governs the atin annual ual election of school trustees and that it has not been amended by the act of 1882 but that section 3 of said chapter lias has hence that the annual election of trustees L should be lid held d the first monday in juno june and no not t the second monday in july as provided by the act of 1882 had the tribune man doffred his faultfinding spectacles and looked through clear and fair glasses ho lie would have seen that section 0 2 provided for the election of all three of the school trustees for each district on the f first monday in june 1880 and that for the terms of 1 12 2 and 3 years so that each district should have one trustee te to elect at their annual meetings after 1880 which annual meetings arc aro provided for in section 3 3 3 as specified in said section 2 section 3 docs does provide for an annual meeting to be held first monday in june each year for cadi each and all rill the school districts and this annual meeting as ag so provided for lias has been changed by I 1 the lie act net of 1882 to the second monday in jt july ly so that now there is no law to leold the annual meeting in june now mr fr tribune try a pair of truo reflectors and sec see if this is not so but he lie says the E edmunds bill vacated all tile election officers and there is no one to hold the election if the tribune man will point out any tiny election officer under cither either the tile territorial or congressional law whose duty dutoit it is to hold school district elections then than there would be some plausibility in his argument but if no law has made it the duty of any officer to hold such elections b but ut lias bag left it with the tile people of each district to manage eliat matter in their own way then his argument falls to the ground but he lie again says there are no ae legal gal voters until a new anew registration is made whence comes this idea do cither either the congressional or territorial rit orial sta statutes atutes authorize a new registration correction of the old registration is provided for but until corrected the old one stands in full force and will stand except so far as corrected even when the commission shall manipulate it it is doubtless true chatas that as congress has combined the territorial election statutes and registration with the edmunds bill many incongruities will be found and the commission will fi find isome some naughty knots to untie and tome that are not able some problems that arc are unsolvable even with the astute tribune to assist CITIZEN OGDEN july ath 1882 |