(1888 I) Compiled Laws of Utah, Volume I, 1888

Additional and Later Legislation by congress_page 121

LEGISLATION her husband by way of BY 121 CONGRESS mortgage unless he absolute estate therein during the marriage period In case of divorce acquire anAbsoluie Rocesiary interes Baed dissolving the marriage contract Barred by for the misconduct of the wife she shall not be endowed Sec 19 That hereafter the judge of probate in each Aprel county within the Territory of Utah provided for by the ex-indse isting laws thereof shall be appointed by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and so much of the laws of said Territory as provide for the election of such judge by the Legislative Assembly are hereby disapproved and annulled Sec 20 That it shall not be lawful for any female to Female votes vote at any election hereafter held in the Territory of UtahUth for any public purpose whatever and no such vote shall be received or counted or given effect inany manner whatever and any and every act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah provided for or allowing the registration or voting by females is hereby annulled Skc 21 That all laws of the Legislative Assembly of Legislative the Territory of Utah which provide for numbering or iden-annulled tifying the votes of the electors at any election in said Territory are hereby disapproved and annulled but the foregoing provision shall not preclude the lawful registration of voters or any other provisions for securing fair elections which do not involve the disclosure of the candidates for whom any particular elector shall have voted That the existing election districts and apporPresent elecSec 22 tionments of representation concerning the members of the abolished Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah are hereby abolished and it shall be the duty of the Governor Territorial Secretary and the Board of Commissioners mentioned in section nine of the act of Congress approved March twentysecond eighteen hundred and eighty-two entitled An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States in reference to bigamy and for other purposes in said Territory forthwith to redistrict said Redistricting Territory and apportion repres ntation in the same in such manner as to provide as nearly as may be for an equal representation of the people excepting Indians not taxed being citizens of the United States according to numbers in said Legislative Assembly and to the number of members of the council and house of representatives respectively as now