UTAH. 



831 



Legislature to be on the second Monday of the 

 following January. 



An act to prevent crimes against the elective 

 franchise provides penalties fur fraudulent reg- 

 istration, fraudulent voting or attempts to vote, 

 tampering with ballot-boxes, forgery or altera- 

 tion of election returns, or other means used 

 to defeat the purpose of the voter. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Providing for a compilation of the laws of the Ter- 

 ritory. 



Raising the age of consent to thirteen years. 



Providing that a married woman mav join iu a 

 deed by her husband, and release her rignt of dower 

 in the property therein conveyed or encumbered. 



Designating May 31 as the time at which new laws 

 shall go into effect, unless otherwise provided in such 

 laws. 



Exempting from taxation for six years the property, 

 capital stock, and bonds or mortgages of any company 

 in the Territory ensured in the production and manu- 

 facture of sugar from products raised in the Terri- 

 torv. 



To prevent the sale or giving away of intoxicating 

 beverages on election-d 



Regulating the business of life insurance. 



Regulating marriage in the Territory, prohibiting, 

 among other things, marriage between a ncsro and a 

 white person, or between a Mongolian and a white 

 person. 



Providing that occupying claimants shall not be 

 evicted by process of law till thcv have been paid the 

 full value of improvements made by them, or unless 

 they refuse to pay upon demand to the successful 

 claimant the full value of his share or claim in the 

 property. 



Establishing a uniform system of county govern- 

 ments. 



Accepting from Salt Lake City a gift of Ian 

 Agricultural Fair Grounds, and appropriating ( 

 for the erection of suitable fair buildings. 



Railroads The railroad system of the Terri- 

 tory at the beginning of the year was as fol- 

 lows : Union Pacific Railroad and branches, 

 581 miles; Denver and Rio Grande Western 

 and branches, 368 miles; Central Pacific, 154 

 miles; and San Pete Valley, 34 miles; total, 

 1,140 miles. Two new roads were in course 

 of construction during the year the Salt Lake 

 and Fort Douglas and the Salt Lake and East- 

 ern. The former of these. 24 miles in length, 

 was practically completed at the end of the 

 year; on the latter, construction was not far 

 advanced. 



Agriculture. The wheat-crop of the Territory 

 for 1888 is estimated at 3,000,000 bushels; 

 oats, 1,500,000 bushels; barley, 750,000 bush- 

 els; rye, 50,000 bushels; corn, 750,000 bushels. 

 There were also produced about 200,000 bush- 

 els of apples, 150,000 bushels of peaches, and 

 75,000 bushels of pears. The hay-crop is esti- 

 mated at 500,000 tons. 



Mining. Mining for the precious metals be- 

 gan about twenty-five years ago, but was car- 

 ried on only in a small way until after the 

 completion of the first Pacific Railroad. This 

 gave a market, and from 1871 to 1887, both 

 inclusive, the value of the output was as fol- 

 lows: Gold, $3,065.092.72; silver, $73,201,- 

 966.51 ; lead, $33,799,599.17 ; copper, $3,003,- 

 889.21; total, $113,071.147.01. The product 



for 1887 is summarized as follows: Coppen 

 124.560; refined lead, $111,750: unrefined 

 lead, $1,196,788.77 ; fine silver, $5,976^ 

 fine gold, $227,740; total export value, $7,637,- 

 729.66. 



Prison. The report of the United Stater, 

 Penitentiary at Salt Lake City, for the year 

 ending June 30, is as follows: Number in 

 prison July 1. 1887, 197; number received 

 from July i, 1887, to June 30, 1888, 299 ; total 

 number in prison during the year, 496 ; num- 

 ber discharged from July 1. 1887, to June 30, 

 1888, 315 ; number remaining in prison July 1, 

 1888, 181. The Forty-eighth Congress appro- 

 priated $50,000 for the construction of a new 

 prison building, which was completed early in 

 the year, and will accommodate 240 prisoners, 

 by placing two in a cell. 



Confiscation of Church Property. In the suits 

 begun in 1887, under the provisions of the Ed- 

 munds-Tucker act, to secure the forfeiture of* 

 the property held by the Mormon Church cor- 

 poration and by the Perpetual Emigrating 

 Fund Company, in which suits a receiver had 

 been appointed to collect and take possession 

 of such property pending the suit, an appeal 

 from the order of the court making such ap- 

 pointment was prayed for by the defendants 

 late in that year, but refused by the Territorial 

 Supreme Court in January, on the ground that 

 the order was merely interlocutory and not 

 final. The receiver during the year instituted 

 numerous investigations and heard witnesses 

 with the vie\v of ascertaining property of the 

 Church and company, took possession of such 

 personal and real property as he could find, 

 and began suits for the rest. The real estate 

 received bv him during the year included the 

 Temple Block in Salt Lake" City, the Gardo 

 House and grounds, the Tithing -Office and 

 grounds, the Historian's Office and grounds, 

 the Church farm of 1,108 acres, and one undi- 

 vided half of the Church coal-mines in Sum- 

 mit County. For the escheat and forfeiture of 

 this property, except the Temple Block, a pro- 

 ceeding was begun during the year by informa- 

 tion in the Third District Court of the Terri- 

 tory. Before October the receiver had also 

 secured possession of money of the defendants, 

 amounting to 237,666.15 ; about 30,000 head 

 of sheep. 4.732 shares of the Deseret Telegraph 

 Company, 300 shares of the Salt Lake City Gas 

 Company, and a few other securities. As to 

 this personalty, and on the legal standing of 

 the defendants generally since the Edmunds- 

 Tucker act, the Supreme Court of the Territory 

 rendered a final decree on October 9, a part of 

 which is as follows : 



That on the 3d day of March, 1S87, the corpora- 

 tion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day 

 Saint* became and the same was dissolved ; and that 

 since said date it has had no lesal corporate existence. 

 And it is furthermore adjudged that all and entire 

 the personal property set out in this decree as having 

 belonged to said corporation has, by reason of the 

 dissolution of said corporation as aforesaid, on account 

 ot the failure or illegality of the trusts to -which it 



