Certificate of Authentication.

STATE OF UTAH,

Office of Secrtary of State.

SS.

I, JAMES T. HAMMOND, Secretary of State

of the State of Utah, do hereby certify:

That the Constitution published in this volume, beginning on page 27, and ending on page 74, is a full, true and correct copy of the original on file in this office;

That the Acts and Resolutions published in this volume, beginning on page 75, and ending on page 588, are full, true and correct copies of the originals, passed at the Special, and First Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Utah (1896), as the same appear on file in this office;

That each Act which the Legislature directed should take effect prior to the time designated in the Constitution received the vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each House, excepting Chapters No. LXIII, LXXXIX, XCII and CXXXI, which Acts failed to receive a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each House;

That the First Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Utah adjourned sine die on the Fifth day of April, A. D. 1896.

THE

GREAT SEAL

OF THE STATE OF и

UTAH. 52°5 205 205 2

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my

hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah. Done at my office in Salt Lake City, Utah, this 23rd day of May, A.D. 1896.

JAMES T. HAMMOND,

Secretary of State.

ENABLING ACT.

AN ACT to enable the people of Utah to form a Constitution and State government, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the Original States.

Utah may be

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Inhabitants of tatives of the United States of America in Congress as-come a State. sembled, That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the United States now constituting the Territory of Utah, as at present described, may become the State of Utah, as hereinafter provided.

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Sec. 2. That all male citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one years who have resided in said Territory for one year next prior to such election Electors to are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates gates to conven to form a convention in said Territory. Such delegates tion. shall possess the qualifications of such electors; and Qualifications the aforesaid convention shall consist of one hundred Delegates. and seven delegates, apportioned among the several Apportionment counties within the limits of the proposed State as follows: Beaver County, two delegates; Box Elder County, four delegates; Cache County, eight delegates; Davis County, three delegates; Emery County, three delegates; Garfield County, one delegate; Grand County, one delegate; Iron County, one delegate; Juab County, three delegates; Kane County, one delegate; Millard County, two delegates; Morgan County, one delegate; Piute County, one delegate; Rich county one delegate; Salt Lake County, twenty-nine delegates, thus apportioned, to-wit: Salt Lake City, first precinct, four delegates; second precinct, six delegates; third precinct, five delegates; fourth precinct, three delegates; fifth precinct, three delegates; all other precincts in said county outside of Salt Lake City, eight delegates; San Juan County, one delegate; San Pete County,

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seven delegates; Sevier County, three delegates; Summit County, four delegates; Tooele County, two delegates; Uintah County, one delegate; Utah County, twelve delegates; Wasatch County, two delegates; Washington County, two delegates; Wayne County one delegate, and Weber County, eleven delegates; and the Governor of said Territory shall, on the first day of issue proclama- August, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, issue a proclamation ordering an election of the delegates aforesaid in said Territory, to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November following. The Utah Commis board of commissioners known as the Utah Commission voters and con- is hereby authorized and required to cause a new and duct election. complete registration of voters of said Territory to be

tion for election

sion to register

made under the provisions of the laws of the United States and said Territory, except that the oath required for registration under said laws shall be so modified as to test the qualifications of the electors as prescribed in this act, such new registration to be made as nearly conformable with the provisions of such laws as may be; and such election for delegates shall be conducted, the returns made, the result ascertained, and the certificate of persons elected to such convention issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of said Territory regulating elections therein of members of Qualifications to the Legislature. Persons possessing the qualifications against Consti- entitling them to vote for delegates under this act shall be entitled to vote on the ratification or rejection of the Constitution, under such rules or regulations as said convention may prescribe, not in confiict with this act.

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Sec. 3. That the delegates to the convention thus elected shall meet at the seat of government of said Territory on the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and, after organization, shall declare on behalf of the people of said proposed State that they adopt the Constitution of the United States, whereupon the said convention shall be, and is hereby, authorized to form a Constitution and State government for said proposed State.

The Constitution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on acquirements of. count of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and not to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. And said convention shall provide by