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SEC. 113. This act shall be published for six consecutive issues in the Deseret News, daily edi

effect, when. tion, and in two consecutive issues of the semiweekly edition, and shall take effect at twelve at night of the last of its publication in the daily. Approved March 9, 1882.

XLII.

OF UTAH REPORTS.

Auditor to purchase

Utah Reports.

Appropriation.

Manner of distribution of reports.

AN ACT to provide for the Purchase and Distribution of Bound Copies of the Utah Reports.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the Auditor of Public Accounts is authorized by this act to purchase, for the use of the Territory and for distribution, as hereinafter provided, fifty copies of the third volume of Utah Reports, now being prepared for publication.

SEC. 2. Upon the completion of such contract of purchase and delivery of the number of volumes specified in the foregoing section, to the Auditor of Public Accounts, it is hereby made the duty of such Auditor to draw his warrant for the amount of such purchase on the territorial treasury, payable out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. After the purchase and receipt by him of the third volume of the Utah Reports, it shall be the duty of the Auditor to distribute the same in the manner following, viz: To office of Governor and Secretary one copy each; to the Supreme and District Courts, and United States District Attorney one copy each; for the use of the Legislative Assembly, five copies; for the use of the Territorial Library, five copies;

one copy to each of the several counties in this Territory; one copy each to the Congressional and Supreme Court Libraries at Washington. The remander shall remain on deposit with the Auditor subject to the further order of the Legislative Assembly.

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SEC. 4. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to purchase and thou to pur draw his warrant on the territorial treasury in and 2 Utah payment therefor, ten copies each of the first and second volumes of the Utah Reports, and on receipt thereof he shall distribute them as follows: Distribution. To the Territorial Library, four copies of each volume; for the use of the Legislative Assembly, six copies of each volume.

Approved March 9, 1882.

CHAPTER XLIII.

INCORPORATING PARK CITY.

AN ACT incorporating Park City.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That so much of the county of Summit as is included in sections 9, 10, 15, 16, 21 and 22,of township two south, range four east, Salt Lake meridian, shall be and the same is hereby organized and incorporated into a city by the name of Park City, and the inhabitants of said city are hereby constituted a body politic by the name aforesaid, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.

SEC. 2. There shall be a mayor and four aldermen elected, who shall have the qualifications of electors of said city, and shall be chosen by the qualified voters thereof, and shall hold their

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offices for two years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The mayor and board of aldermen shall judge of their own qualifications, election and return of their own members, and a majority of them shall form a quorum to do business at all general or special meetings, due notice of which has been given, and the mayor shall preside at all meetings when present and have a casting vote. When the mayor is absent, one of the aldermen may be appointed by the board to act in his place during his absence; and any vacancy in any of the offices of said corporation, occasioned by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, may be filled, for the unexpired term of such office, by a majority of the whole board.

SEC. 3. The mayor and aldermen of said city, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall be commissioned by the Governor, and 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; which oath shall be filed with the Secretary of the Territory.

SEC. 4. The mayor and aldermen shall be elected biennially in said city, and the first election under this act shall be at such time as the probate judge of said county shall direct; Provided, Said election shall be on or before the first Monday of August next. Said election shall be held and conducted as now provided by law for holding elections for county and Territorial officers, and at the first election all voters legally qualified shall be entitled to vote.

SEC. 5. The clerks of the election in said city shall leave with each person elected, or at the usual places of residence, within five days after election, a written notice of his election; and each person so notified shall, within ten days after the election, take the oath or affirmation herein before mentioned, a certificate of which oath shall be deposited with the clerk, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, and be by him preserved, and all subsequent elections shall be held,

conducted and returns thereof be made, as may be provided by ordinance of the mayor and board of aldermen.

SEC. 6. The mayor and board of aldermen in said city shall have the following powers, to-wit:

First-To purchase, hold or convey all necessary estate, real or personal, for the use and benefit of the corporation.

Second-To prevent, abate and remove nuisances, and adopt such other measures for the public health as they may deem proper.

Third-To purchase, hold, own and lay out graveyards and cemeteries, and regulate the burial of the dead.

Fourth-To restrain from running at large horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine and all kinds of poultry in said city, under such penalties and regulations as may be prescribed by the ordinances of said city.

Fifth-To provide for the protection of shade trees, monuments, and other public property in said city.

Sixth-To license, tax and regulate the manufacturing, vending or giving away of spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, and to license and regulate hotel or tavern keepers, eating houses and restaurants, merchants, grocers and peddlers.

Seventh-To license all exhibitions of showmen, concerts, theatricals, circuses or other traveling shows, public dances or amusements, or to suppress any of the foregoing which are indecent.

Eighth-To restrain and punish vagrants, prostitutes and libertines.

Ninth-To appoint policemen and watchmen, and prescribe their duties, powers and qualifications.

Tenth-To prohibit and suppress disorderly, lewd or gambling houses and all devices for gambling, and to suppress any drunkenness, rout, riot, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblage.

Eleventh-To levy and collect an annual tax for general corporation purposes on all such property as shall be subject to county and territorial taxes, and such tax shall, when so

levied, constitute a lien upon all said propery and shall be collected as county and territorial taxes are collected, so far as is consistent with this act; Provided, All taxes for such purpose in any one year shall not exceed one-half of one per cent. on the assessed valuation of the property so assessed; unless two-thirds of the electors voting at a special meeting, called for that purpose, shall vote a larger per cent. to be levied; but in no case shall said tax exceed, nor electors be allowed to levy more than one per cent. on the assessed valuation aforesaid in one year.

Twelth-To lay out, open, construct, grade, pave and otherwise improve streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks or cross walks, and to prohibit the encumbering of sidewalks with any materials whatever, and riding or driving thereon, except to cross the same.

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Thirteenth-To lay out, construct, open keep in repair canals, water ditches or water pipes for irrigation, domestic or other use of the inhabitants of said city.

Fourteenth-To direct, in prosecution of actions at law, in which said city may be a party, and may sue and be sued in their corporate name. Fifteenth-To fix and establish the compensation of the officers made elective or appointed by the mayor and board of aldermen.

Sixteenth-To prevent horses racing, and immoderate riding or driving in the streets of said city.

Seventeenth-To prevent the running at large of dogs by imposing a tax on the same or otherwise, or to authorize their destruction, in a summary manner, when running at large contrary to the ordinance of said city.

Eighteenth-To make, ordain, pass, establish and enforce such ordinances and regulations not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the laws of this Territory, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act as they may deem proper, and to repeal, alter and amend the same at pleasure; but no such ordinance or regulations shall take effect or be in force until the same shall have been published ten days in some public newspaper printed in

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