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24 of their respective counties, on the first Monday of each month. Sec. 11. The chief justice of each county may be appointed probate judge, for their respective counties. JEDEDIAH M. GRANT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. HEBER C. KIMBALL, Speaker of the Senate. Approved, Jan. 19, 1851, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Gov. Thomas Bullock, Clerk. AN ORDINANCE, apportioning the representation of the State of Deseret. Passed, Jan. 17, 1851. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret, that Great Salt Lake County shall be entitled to elect nine senators and twenty representatives, to the General Assembly of said State. Davis county, one senator and two representatives; Weber county, two senators and four representatives; Utah county, two senators and four representatives; San-Pete county, one senator and two representatives; Iron county, one senator and two representatives; Tooele county, one senator and one representative. The foregoing apportionment shall continue until the census shall have been taken, when a new apportionment shall be made. Sec. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the county clerks in their respective counties, to include in the election notices, all the offices which are to be filled, and issue a writ of election to the sheriff of the county, four weeks next preceding all or any regular election. Sec. 3. The sheriff shall post up, in at least eight public places in his county, copies of such notices, at least twenty days previous to said election, and cause the same to be published in any newspaper in the county, if there be one. JEDEDIAH M. GRANT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. |