| Show A AL WILL to amend the act establishing a territorial rit orial government for utah and to change the tile name to altamont ke be it enacted by the senate and house stales of america in Cun Gun grets gress assembled aisem bled that the tile firt section of f I 1 the lie art ai arf of Cou congress gress aier approved september ath 1850 1830 entitled an ali act to establish government lovern ment for utah is cherub hereby y amended ended BO so as to read as follows 1 that all that part of the territory of oatlie ilia united states within the limits of the b lite present Tern korv of utah bounded on the north by tile Terr itri es of Idaho 0 and wyom wyoming I 1 ng east by the state of colorado south by the territory of arizona izolia and west by the state of nevada be and the aume same is hereby erected into a temporary government bv by thel the name iame of the territory of altamont provided that nothing in this act contained shall be construed tu to impair any personal corporate or marital right of any inhabitant nor tile tenure of office of any united states officer or justice Justic eor or judge of said territory nor to inhibit congress from dividing the tile domain a and I 1 id ot annexing i any portion thereof to any oilier other territory or state at its plea pleasure 11 sec 2 that the second section be and the samo same is hereby amended so as to read as follows follos sec 2 that the executive power und authority in and over said territory of altamont Alt r liall be vested in a governor who shall hold his office lor for lour four ears and until hia his siu sti camor be appointed and qualified fled un nit less go sooner gotier tier removed by bv the president of the united states the Gb governor vernor shall i eade within said territory Arv and not leave it without permission of the tile president shall be commander in chief of the militia thereal the shall perform the duties and receive the tile emoluments of a superintendent of indian affairs Affa irr shall communicate ly by e V to tile legislative assembly at the commencement of each session thereof sm atit li aits facts and su sues lions as ho shall tall deem pertinent and tand matet material ial to the beat bt interests of the people peopled f the territory may disapprove of such acts odthe legi laithe AuM embly us as lib lie hall deem extravagant or det detrimental al to the pailie morals or peace or I 1 injurious jurious ii to alie people ale of i the lie terril territory 0 or the tile united slates at lare large but shall approve and officially 0 to o any and anti all a aita ats ts ia paced aed by tile latho assembly beffie they shall take fret n t the governor gom bruor clial sha 1 ulso ut at least sixty days lays before any ami anti every election in sad territory for member 01 the leai dative assembly probate Pro bito judges or delegate to congress designate und itt least three reputable cili zens in ili each of tile elect election iun districts of said territory inspectors of elet election tion of or their respective districts require them to be sworn before some authorized zed officer to administer oaths to perform their duties lion estly fai I 1 h fully fully and according to law to super vitie the election and r fee ree ee that no one iff is allow alto ed to vote unless he lie is qualified according to the provisions of this act and other acts of Cou congress gress and to make correct returns of such election anthe the said governor Govern pr within thu the time he lie shall prescribe it shall be the duty of the governor to sign formal commissions for all officers who shall be elected or appointed I 1 0 i n led to collica under the tile laws of i baid i d territory and in wen erial to take care that the laws lan a be faithfully executed the present governor of utah is continued in the same office as governor of altamont AIt amont to the fad end of the term for which he lie was a appointed pointed unless he lie shall be removes removed sooner by the tile president of the united states SEC sm 3 that the fifth section of cald met N hereby amended co so as to read am 0 that every male citizen of ilia age of twenty one 3 year ears who friall have been a citizen for ten days and an inhabitant of the territory tor or one year preceding an election and for the last four month a resident of the tile county and fur for lie the last thirty days a ris resident ident of the election district in which lie may offer his vote shall be entitled to vote at any election in the election district of which lie hejhall shall at lip tunese a resident and not elsewhere for all officers men member ibers agthe of the legislative Legisa tiyo As embly and delegate to congress that now are or hereafter may be elective lv iv the people and nil all alif questions scions which may be submitted to tho tile v ie le of tho ali people provided that if this vole vote be bo diali sent finned ged by tie tile I 1 inspectors of the elec election tiou or any other person entitled to vote at that election lie satisfy tilo I 1 inspectors by liis his oath or otherwise that ho lie not only possesses the foregoing qualifications for voting but aleo also that he is innocent and guisler a of the crime of bigamy and if married thit he lie has no more than one living wife wire fo ro insure the tile purity purit efem 1 elections the inspectors Inspect om are bert by authorized to administer an oath to the person challenged to t the eiff tiet that ho lie shall under tinder his ilia oath make true answers to the lite questions put to him by tho the in ins nectora tors touching nit his qualifications tt fr voting and if he lie alwer falsely he will be deemed guilty of or perjury and liable to be indi incited ted aux convicted tile voting at mch uch mc h elections shall le to by ballot ballo tand anti earli each person olle to vote ahall shall deb delacr er his tal ballot lot so folded na as to oung conceal eal its ili contents to one octile of the ikpe tors in tile e of the other or others abo w ho constitute the tile board if it the vole vote be challen gedl lie or one of eliem shall administer an oath in ili I 1 the ile following follow ins form forni you vou do swear or affirm eliat you will fully and truly answer all such questions a ai t shall ati put to you yon your qualifications as a voter if the pers eon son challenged challen Red ball bernse to take the oath or after taking it shall fall datisy th of hla his right tight to vole it will ill bo alie duty of the tile in toni to derupe to recelle receive aind can vaa VASS the tile ballot aa as fl it lawful vota voto the tb inspectors of lucli ch elections shall keep tile polls lylis open at it least one day from front sun sunrise rie until summet sunnet shall keel deepan an accurate the voters whose ballots they received and deposit in ili the bals bal lot bix box and minutes illi of the names of the voters whose wilme votes they reject Asso onas tho poll of such election shall be closed the inspectors shall immediately proceed to cati canvass vass the votes such canvass shall be public and shall not bo be adjourned or postponed boned by them until it shall have been ceen fully folly completed and duplicate statements thereof prepared and subscribed by them tho the said inspectors ins pec shall deliver ono of said duplicate statements to the clerk or liec order of the county in ill which such election baa has been held paid within two days thereafter and the other in a envelope evv elope to the tile secretary of the territory or by depositing it in the nea postage paid addressed to liim it in in in legible words written on the envelope within six day days a thereafter the governor secretary and attorney of the territory are hereby constituted canvassers for the territory and they theaora the yora or a majority of them then are tire hereby authorized to inspect a the yates no so returned I 1 by bv the tile raid said inspectors I 1 to the secretary and to determine and certify the num number berof of votes cast of the persons voted for and which of them has been elected by bv the greatest number of lawful votes when ilia secretary shall have bave received such returns from the inspectors of all tho tile election districts or precincts he be shall notify the governor and attorney thereof upon receiving BUch motive the governor and attorney shall without delay dejay meet at the office of the secretary as canvassers they and the thie secretary tary chall then be sworn by the tile chief juss jus tire tive or one of ho the associate justices of the territory to perform the tile duties of canvassers honestly impartially and according to law they shall thereupon proceed to open the tile re turns of the several inspectors can the tile same came and ascertain the bumber of cotea which each of the persons voted for has received and determine and decide which of them has received the greatest number of lawful votes for the fur for which bich they were ted in the ballots upon completing coin the canvass they haull certify in writing which odthe per voted fur for was elected by the lie greatest number of lawful voies votes and the tho secretary shall record revord the certificate in a book bok to be kept in ili hit hii office for that purpose re and when at any stich election a delegate to Cun congress gresa shall have been el eted they shall shail furni fornili fur nili h him with the ato jofh of his s electa in subscribed by each of them officially and attested nith ith the seal eal of the antory ory sec 4 that no married man having more than ilan one wile living shall ahall be a lawful I 1 auter or friall be permitted t ly y llie tile inspectors of elect elections ioni to voto at any general county v or r municipal election hen after hel held d in in j the tile said fald territory if tile vote of any man thus disqualified ahall be received by I 1 the lite inspectors through li inadvertence fir r mistake miH taLe they shall reject it in I 1 their count and anti canvass if it they cm emi recognize it as bain being utterly void and no man mail married or jirim shall be entitled or permitted by the inayet tors to vote at any auca election who previous thereto shall have been convicted or bigamy felony or other infamous crime cir fine unions lie ila hall shall have been pardoned and restored to the rights of a citizen sec 5 that no married man having more than oil air wife living biall ba be eli ellibe elif cibe ibe and qualified to serve and perform the solemn duties of a grand or petit juror in any odthe courts in aud and fur for the tile bid gaid territory 1 or be eligible end and qualified to liolla l and aind serve in any civil civi I 1 or military office or to be and serve as a member of either brandi of the legislative Ame embly or to be and serve as a Dele delegate zate to llie the congress of tile jailed united states ifancy man thus legally disqualified shall through ahr nih connivance t ence or mistake mic I 1 take be summoned by the marshal or sheriff as a grand or jr petit juror the disqualification shall be good ground for a challenge clallen cb allen e by the attorney or attorneys interested and the name of such man hall shall be ordered to be stricken from front the list or panel of Jurors by if any man thus legally disqualified sha I 1 presume to sit and serve as a member of either branch odthe legislative assembly and shall be objected to by bt any other member of that body it shall bo ho tile duty of the presiding officer to expel him SEC 0 6 that it shall be the dut duty of the lite iret first legislative ug gisla tive assembly ach which shall be convened after this act shall have taken effect cal act to repeal all tho the statutes atutes at or parts of statutes of the ter authorize or or sanction auction plural lilt irAl or polygamous marriages marri aged and in III view of the manifold sorrows and miseries which that unwholesome practice in the territory has entailed upon ignorant and deluded women and slid helpless and su nering frering children that tile dmd bad legislative assembly endeavor to provide lovide by some soule law for lie support su port during krim the remainder of their ill air lives of tho the homeless and destitute female victims vit tinis of polygamy poly ga mir and their ell children ildren for that iho ilia eald said L legislative assam ely bly is hereby authorized and empowered to orect and build one or more houses of refuse refuge and protection for such victims and t W levy on the real and personal property pro J arty of the tile inhabitants of tile territory to defray tho kilo expenses of the erection and maintenance inabin of tho aid charities to the end that tile male parents of or minora born of women in ili polygamous r may be bo re required t ij nd to fulfill the natural paternal ul g fioriti i alio tj to said sali leia dative assembly A sa I 1 authorized at I 1 zed and enjoined benj deed to enact suitable suit ablo lawa laws for alm enforcement of that pAt paterna ermil lob oh Ratin li fall fat liers era is who ito have the means to respond d to it sec 7 that in alio faid said territory in order to desurne public respect idsall bo be publicly BOI sol in gottle building or place oilier olite rilio lion nany any mormon NI rmon endowment cloister pl in the tile grebence pre bence of two or niro ded and anti of alii dis di only by a justice utice u tice or judge of the supreme or ar probable bate court a mayor tir or alderman lder inan of an all in corpo rated city aJob tico a of tho tile leae dily coll and acting as stich or by an sit ordained and acting minister inister ot oi thu the gospel of sum a a ac I 1 Z M 0 1 credited and generally religious denomination uther other than the establishment or society of mormons cormons Mor mons As marriage in law aw is is a civil contract no 0 p particular a reticular cenemo ceremony is required wit when en tile same shall be by a justice or judge judg e the supreme or probate cou court rt or b by y a justice of tho peace mavor or alderman except requiring the parties to declare in the presence odthe of the officiating that they and each to the tile other solemnly agree to t 0 enter into the covenant of matrimony and have each other for husband and wife ife so long as they both shall live when solemnized by a minister of the gospel the ceremony of marriage shall be according to the tile forms and customs of tho the church or society to which he belong be longi nd NO second s aoud or sub ant ie quent marriage by either of the parties shall be lawful during the thelise birto time of any former husband or wife unless llie the marria marriage 1 of such former husband or difo shall g f I 1 have live been annulled or dissolved by bv tho tile decree or J judgment u of some court of competent authority or unless such former husband or wife wire shall hare bare been absent from the territory for the space of five successive sue ce as v years without being known to such person to be living or shall hare have been sentenced by some sume court of competent authority t to irr for life and to lt the e end that such marriages nl may ay be susceptible of proof every officer office r and mini minister 8 ter who shall h beafter officiate and solemnize an any marriage in said territory shall mal make e and keep an accurate record of each and every one of them which lie solemnizes solemn izes containing the dato date and place of the ceremony the names age and place of residence or of the parties and the names of the witnesses and when required by any subpoena duces tecum m lie shall produce them in court to bo be used suit or proceeding proceed inc where an any question relating to them is involved involved SEC sica 8 that the tenth tooth section of said act establishing a territorial government fur for utah be and the sama same is hereby lie reby amended by adding thereto a at the end thereof tho following words tho tile marshal or his hi general deputies or such |
