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ACTS
RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
OF THE
TERRITORY OF UTAH
NINTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
1870 salt lake city territory Joseph Bull public printer
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ACTS,
RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS,
PASSED AND ADOPTED DURING THE
NINETEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
OF THE
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
OF THE
TERRITORY OF UTAH
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SALT LAKE CITY: JOSEPH BULL, PUBLIC PRINTER. 1870
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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 All laws or parts of laws conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed.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
