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| Title | (1849-1851) The State of Deseret - Appendix: Constitution and Ordinances (1849-1851) |
| Subject | Law; Legislation--Utah |
| Description | (1849-1851) Collected by Dale L. Morgan, these were published as an appendix to The State of Deseret, 8 Utah Hist. Q. 155-233 (1940), and later reprinted in THE STATE OF DESERET (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press with the Utah Historical Society, 1987). In 1849 a constitution was drafted for a provisional government organized under the name "State of Deseret." Its legislature met on several occasions from July 2, 1849 until March 28, 1851, when it was dissolved upon announcement of the federal act to establish a territorial government (the "Organic Act"). |
| Publisher | Utah State Historical Society |
| Contributors | Morgan, Dale R. |
| Date | 1947 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications | Photocopies scanned with an Epson Expression 1640 XL flatbed scanner and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF's. Display JPEG's created in PhotoshopCS at 800 x 1125 ppi. |
| Source | Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 8 Numbers 23-24 |
| Language | eng |
| Rights Management | Digital image copyright 2005, S.J. Quinney College of Law. All rights reserved. |
| Holding Institution | S.J. Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah, South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730. |
| Source Physical Dimensions | 15 cm x 2 cm |
| Scanning Technician | Amanda Wilson; Jan Robertson |
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| Setname | uu_law_uschs |
| ID | 719739 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw1mpz |
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| Title | page 175 |
| OCR Text | THE 175 STATE OF DESERET remit all amounts so collected into the public Treasury as often as once in each month Sec It shall be the duty of each Assessor and Collector to keepfair and faithful record of the names of owners of property the amount assessed and tax arising thereon and collected and paid over and also the amount assessed not collected and the reason why if by removal or otherwise and return the same with full statement of all his proceeings sic on or before the first day of December in each year to the Auditor of public Accounts whose duty it shall be to Audit the same and report thereon to the General Assembly if then in session or the first ensuing ses sion Sec Ifany person shall refuse or neglect to pay the amount of tax assessed as herein comtemplated it shall be the duty of the Assessor and Collector to enforce the collection thereof in the most summary manner provided he shall in no case distress the widow and the fatherless nor oppress the honest poor Sec Any person or persons who shall fail to give intrue report to the Assessor and Collector of all taxable property owned by said person or persons according to the provisions of this Ordinance or wilfully sic conceal from the Assessor and Collector any taxable property owned by him or them or other wise try to defraud the public revenue shall on conviction there of be liable tofine of not exceeding one thousand dollars or the amount of money or property so concealed at the discretion of the Court having jurisdiction Approved Jan 16 1850 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZINGBOUNTY KILLING WOLVES ON Passed by the General Assembly January 14 1850 Sec Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret thatbounty of two dollars is hereby offered for the killing of each large mountain wolf also one dollar for the killing of each small prairie wolf or fox said bounty to be paid out of the public Treasury as hereinafter prescribed provided that the person claiming the bounty shall be the person who killed the wolf or fox and that the application for said bounty shall be made within ten days after the killing by preserving the wolfor foxpelt entire together with two inches or more of the upper jaw next preceding the end of the nose thereunto attached in its natural state and the killing shall have been performed within the distance of twenty miles of some white settlement within this State |
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| Identifier | 023_page 175.jpg |
| Source | Original Journal: Utah Historical Quarterly The State of Deseret |
| Setname | uu_law_uschs |
| ID | 719663 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw1mpz/719663 |