Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the ... Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah

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Brigham H. Young, Printers, 1865 - Session laws

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Page 63 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 10 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Page 52 - When it shall be necessary to take private property for opening, widening, or altering, any public street, lane, avenue, or alley, the corporation shall make a just compensation therefor to the person whose property is so taken, and if the amount of such compensation cannot be agreed upon, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the city.
Page 42 - City; and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name aforesaid — and shall have perpetual succession, and may have, and use a common seal — which they may change and alter at pleasure.
Page 51 - To regulate weights and measures in conformity with the standard of weights and measures established by law, and to require every merchant, retailer, trader and dealer in merchandise or property of any description which is sold by measure or weight, to cause their weights and measures to be sealed by the city sealer, and to be subject to his inspection. Bathing. XXVIII. To regulate or prohibit swimming or bathing in the waters of or bounding the city. POII«.
Page 50 - To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandler shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer, or other unwholesome, nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove, or abate the same from time to time as often as it may be deemed necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of said city.
Page 33 - ... or any putrid or unsound beef, pork or fish, hides or skins of any kind: and on his default, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof, by some officer of the city, and require the owner of any dead animal to remove the same to such place as may be designated.
Page 32 - To regulate the burial of the dead and registration of births and deaths ; to direct the returning and keeping of bills of mortality, and to impose penalties on physicians, sextons and others, for any default in the premises.
Page 33 - To prevent the running at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large, contrary to the ordinance.
Page 27 - ... take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he will support the Constitution of the United States and of...

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