OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT SALT LAKE CITY ON THE FOURTH CONSTITUTION FOR THE STATE OF UTAH., Chonbur SALT LAKE CITY. 1898. 23 OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION. PRESIDENT: JOHN HENRY SMITH, Salt Lake City. SECRETARIES: PARLEY P. CHRISTENSEN, Grantsville, Tooele County. C. S. RAPP, Assistant, Ogden, Weber County. ENROLLING AND ENGROSSING CLERK: JOSEPH A. SMITH, Providence, Cache County. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS: R. CLAWSON, Ephraim, Sanpete County. MESSENGER: THOMAS S. WATSON, Heber, Wasatch County. WATCHMAN: BRUCE JOHNSON, Salt Lake City. JANITOR: J. N. SCOTT, Salt Lake City. PAGES: JOHN H. THORN, Salt Lake City. COMMITTEE CLERKS: MISS B. T. MACMASTERS, Salt Lake City. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DUPLICATE EXCHANGED 266892 MARCH 1930 OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE CONVENTION. FIRST DAY. MONDAY, 12 m., March 4, 1895. The Delegates elected to the Convention to adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah assembled at the city of Salt Lake this day under and by virtue of the provisions of an Enabling Act passed by the Congress of the United States, approved July 16th, 1894, in the following words: 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. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: 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. SEC. 2. That all male citizens over the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said Territory for one year next prior to such election, are hereby authorized to vote for and choose dele gates to form a Convention in said Territory. Such delegates shall possess the qualifications of such electors; and the aforesaid Convention shall consist of one hundred and seven delegates, apportioned among the several 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, seven delegates; Sevier County, three delegates; Summit |