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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 397. 1887. 639 of the moneys due on such mortgage or such conveyance, and the costs and charges of the sale, such widow shall nevertheless be entitled to the interest or income of the one-third part of such surplus for her life, as her dower. (g) A widow shall not be endowed of lands conveyed to her husband Ab¤*>l¤¤•> i¤f¤*‘¢=¤1= by way of mortgage unless he acquire an absolute estate therein during “°°°““‘"Y· the marriage period. (L) In case of divorce dissolving the marriage contract for the mis- Band bi *1* conduct of the wife, she shall not be endowed. v°"°°‘ Sec. 19. That hereafter the judge of probate in each ·county within APP¤*{*****°**'¤ of the Territory of Utah provided for by the existing laws thereof' shall P’°b“°"-l"dg°'· be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the ‘ advice and consent of the Senate; and so much of the laws of said Territory as provide for the election of such judge by the legislative assembly are hereby disapproved and annulled. ‘ Sec. 20. That it shall not_be lawful for any female to vote at any Female votesproelection hereafter held in the Territory of Utah for any public purpose '“b‘*°d "' Ulm'- whatever, and no such vote shall be received or counted or given effect in any manner whatever; and any and every act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah providing for or allowing the registration or voting by females is hereby annulled. _ _ Sec. 21. That all laws of the legislative assembly of the Territory of f L°K'”l“P"’° l"‘*° - Utah which provide for numbering or identifying the votes of the elect- m°;fiB,]v°"°g ° " ` ors at any election in said Territory are hereby disapproved and an- ° nulled; but the foregoing provision shall not preclude the lawful registration of voters, or any other provisions for securing fair elections which do not involve the disclosure of the candidates for whom any particular elector shall have voted. Sec. 22. That the existing election districts and apportionments of _P¤3¤¤¤t ¤l9¢=ti¤¤ representation concerning the members of the legislative assembly of d‘“"°““b°l""°d‘ the Territory of Utah are hereby abolished; and it shall be the duty of the governor, Territorial secretary, and the Board of Commissioners mentioned in section nine of the act of Congress approved March twenty- second, eighteen hundred and eighty two entitled “An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes", in said Territory, forthwith to redistrict said Territory, and apportion repre- Rodistricting. sentation in the same in such manner as to provide, as nearly as may V0}- 22- P- 3*- be, for an equal representation of the people (excepting Indians not taxed), being citizens of the United States, according to numbers, in said legislative assembly, and to the number of members of the council and house of representatives, respectively, as now established by law; and a record of the establishment of such new districts and the apportionment of representation thereto shall be made in the office of the secretary of said Territory, and such establishment and representation shall continue until Congress shall otherwise provide; and no persons Only United other than citizens of the United States otherwise qualified shall be en- Btlm ·=i¤i=¢¤¤ w titled to vote at any election in said Territory. '°“’· Sec. 23. That the provisions of section nine of said act approved B¤gi¤¢¤‘¤*i<>¤ ***0 March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in regard to °l°°"°“ "m°‘"”· registration and election olllcers, and the registration of voters, and the conduct of elections, and the powers and duties of the Board therein mentioned, shall continue and remain operative until the provisions and laws therein referred to to be made and enacted by the legislative assembly of said Territory of Utah shall have been made and enacted by said assembly and shall have been approved by Congress. 81:0. 24. That every male person twenty-one years of age resident in Oath tobe when the Territory of Utah shall, as a condition precedent to his right to l*°f°*'° *******8- register or vote at any election in said Territory, take and subscribe an oath or aiiirmation, before the registration odlcer of his voting precinct, that he is over twenty-one years of age, and has resided in the Territory of Utah for six months then last passed and in the precinct for one