SEC. 11. All ordinances passed by the City Council, shall, within ten days after their passage, be published in some newspaper printed in said city, or certified copies thereof be posted up in three of the most public places in the city. They shall not be in force until thus published or posted up. SEC. 12. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the Seal of the Corporation, and when printed or published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be printed or published by the authority of the Corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. Proof. Justices of the SEC. 13. The Justices of the Peace of said city shall have Peace. all the powers of other Justices of the Peace, both in civil and criminal cases arising under the Laws of the Territory. They shall perform the same duties, be governed by the same laws, give the same bonds and securities as other Justices of the Jurisdiction Peace. They shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of the Corporation, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry such ordi- Appeals. nances into execution. Appeals may be had from any decision or Judgment of said Justices arising under the ordinances of said city, or the Laws of this Territory to the Probate Court of Sanpete County, in the same manner as appeals are or may be taken from other Justices of the Peace. Power and SEC. 14. The Mayor shall be the Chief Executive Officer of said Corporation. He shall preside in the City Council, duty of Mayor. and shall have power to veto any ordinances, but when passed by two-thirds majority after considering his objections, it shall be his duty to sign all such ordinances: provided, that in the absence of the Mayor at any meeting of the Council, the Council shall have power to appoint one of their number to preside. SEC. 15. The City Council shall have power to restrain, regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, powers. mules, sheep, swine, goats, and all kinds of poultry; and to tax and regulate the keeping of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large contrary to city ordi nance. SEC. 16. To prohibit or restrain the manufacturing, To license, &c. selling or giving away of spirituous vinous or fermented liquors, to tax and regulate hotel keepers, victualing or coffee houses, restaurants, saloons, or other houses or places of entertainment. ordinance. SEC. 17. The City Council shall have exclusive power by Exclusive ordinance to regulate the police of the city, to license, tax and power by regulate auctioneers, merchants, retailers, theatricals, and other exhibitions, shows and amusements; to prohibit and suppress gaming; to prohibit and suppress bawdy and other disorderly houses. Contagious SEC. 18. To make regulations to prevent the introduction diseases. of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws and enforce the same within the city. SEC. 19. To establish hospitals and make regulations for Quarantine. the government of the same. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to declare what shall be nuisances and prevent and remove the same. SEC. 20. This Act shall be in force on and after the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and seventy, and may be amended at the pleasure of the Legislative Assembly. Female suffrage. AN ACT Conferring upon Women the Elective Franchise. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That every woman of the age of twenty-one years who has resided in this Territory six months next preceding any general or special election, born or naturalized in the United States, or who is the wife, widow or the daughter of a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to vote at any election in this Territory. SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed. Boundary. Name and style. Powerse AN ACT Incorporating Mendon City, in Cache County. [Approved February 12, 1870.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That all that district of country in Cache County embraced within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point one and one half miles east of the southeast corner of block five in Mendon town plot, thence south one and one half miles, thence west three miles, thence north three miles, thence east three miles, thence south one and one half miles to the place of beginning, shall be known and designated under the name of Mendon City, and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name aforesaid, and shall have succession, and may have and use a common seal which they may change and alter at pleasure. SEC. 2. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity and in all actions whatsoever; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, in said city; to purchase, receive and hold real property beyond the city for burying grounds or other public purposes for the use of the inhabitants of said city: to sell, lease, convey or dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of said city; to improve and protect such property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons. SEC. 3. There shall be a City Council, to consist of a Mayor and six Councilors, who shall have the qualifications of electors of said city, and shall be chosen by the qualified voters thereof, and shall hold their offices for two years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The City Council shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members, and a majority of them shall form a quorum to do business; but a less number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance; there shall also be elected in like manner two Justices of the Peace, who shall have the qualifications of voters, be commissioned by the Governor, and have jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city. SEC. 4. The Mayor and Councilors, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States and the laws of this Territory, and that they will well and truly perform all the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities. City Council. Oath. SEC. 5. A Mayor and six Councilors shall be elected biennially, and the first election under this Act shall be at Election. such time in said city as the Probate Judge of Cache County shall direct: provided, said election shall be on or before the first Monday in August next. Said election shall be held and conducted as now is provided by law for the holding of elec- How contions for County and Territorial officers; and at the said first ducted. election, all electors within said city limits shall be entitled to vote. SEC. 6. The Clerks of election shall leave with each person elected, or at his usual place of residence, within five days after the election, a written notice of his election, and each person so notified shall, within ten days after the elec- Notifications. tion, take the oath or affirmation hereinbefore mentioned, a certificate of which oath shall be deposited with the Recorder, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, and be by him preserved; and all subsequent elections shall be held, conducted and returns thereof made as may be provided for by ordinance of the City Council. SEO. 7. The City Council shall shall have power to levy and collect taxes for city purposes upon all taxable property, real and personal, within the limits of the city, not exceeding Taxes.; one half of one per cent. per annum upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same, to be provided for by ordinance not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the laws of this Territory. SEC. 8. The City Council shall have power to appoint a Recorder, Treasurer, Assessor and Collector, Marshal and City Officers. Supervisor of Streets, and appoint all such other officers by Bond. Ordinances. Vacancies. Publication. Proof. Justices of the ordinance as may be necessary, define the duties of all city officers and remove them from office at pleasure. SEC. 9. The City Council shall have power to require of all officers appointed in pursuance of this Act, bonds with security for the faithful performance of their respective duties; and also to require of all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices." SEC. 10. The City Council shall have power and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such ordinances, not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the laws of this Territory, as they may deem necessary for the peace, benefit, good order, regulation, convenience and cleanliness of said city; for the protection of property therein from destruction by fire or otherwise, and for the health and happiness of the inhabitants thereof; and shall have control of the water and water courses leading to the city: provided, that such control shall not be exercised to the injury of any rights already acquired by actual settlers thereon; and shall have control of the water courses and mill privileges within said city; but in no case shall they interfere with the natural rights of others heretofore acquired in relation to water. They shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, of any of the officers herein made elective; to fix and establish the fees of the officers of said Corporation. The City Council shall have power to divide the city into wards and specify the boundaries thereof. SEC. 11. All ordinances passed by the City Council shall, within ten days after they shall have been passed, be published in some newspaper printed in said city, or certified copies thereof be posted up in three of the most public places in the city. They shall not be in force until thus published or posted up. SEC. 12. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the seal of the Corporation affixed thereto; and, when printed or published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be printed or published by the authority of the Corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. SEC. 13. The Justices of the Peace of said city shall have all the powers of other Justices of the Peace, both in civil and criminal cases, arising under the laws of the Territory. They shall perform the same duties, be governed by the same laws, and give the same bonds and securities as other Justices of Jurisdiction. the Peace. They shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of the Corporation, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry such ordinances into execution. Appeals may be had from any decision or judgment of said Justices, arising under the ordinances of said city or the laws of the Territory, to the Probate Court of said Cache County, in the same manner as appeals are or may be taken from other Justices of the Peace. Appeals. Power and duty of Mayor. SEC. 14. The Mayor shall be the Chief Executive Officer of said Corporation, he shall preside in the City Council, and shall have power to veto any ordinance, but when passed by two-thirds majority after considering his objections, it shall be his duty to sign the same as well as all other city ordinances. SEC. 15. The City Council shall have power to restrain, General regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, powers. mules, sheep, swine, goats, and all kinds of poultry; and to tax and regulate the keeping of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large contrary to city ordinance. SEC. 16. To license, regulate, prohibit or restrain the To license, &c. manufacturing, selling or giving away or spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors to tax and regulate tavern keepers, dram or tippling-shop keepers, victualing or coffee houses, restaurants, saloons or other houses or places for the selling or giving away of ardent, vinous or fermented liquors. ordinance. SEC. 17. The City Council shall have exclusive power, Exclusive, by ordinance, to regulate the police of the city; to license, tax power by and regulate auctioneers, merchants and retailers; to license, tax and regulate theatrical and other exhibitions, shows, and amusements; to prohibit and suppress gaming, bawdy and other disorderly houses. SEC. 18. This Act shall be in force on and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and may be amended at the pleasure of the Legislative Assembly. Amending "An Act, Prescribing the Manner of Assessing and Collecting Territorial and County Taxes, and for other purposes," Approved January 20, 1865. [Approved February 15, 1870.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Section Three of "An Act prescribing the manner of assessing and collecting Amendments. Territorial and County Taxes, and for other purposes, Approved January 20, 1865, be amended to read, one fourth of one per cent, in the first line of said Section, and to read, three fourths of one per cent. in the third line of said Section. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. BAN ACT To provide for the Election of the Members of the Legislative [Approved February 15, 1870.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the term of the Members of the House of Representatives of the Territory |