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LAWS OF UTAH

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.

AN ACT
Conferring upon Women the Elective Franchise
(Approved February 12, 1870)
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are hereby repealed.

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 sre hereby constitutd a body corporate
and polotic 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 puchase,
recieve and hold property, real and peronel in said city; to
purchase, recive and hold real property beyond the city for
burying grounds or other public purposes for the use of the