SEC. 23. No person connected officially with either of the district courts of this Territory nor any public officer shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, by purchase or otherwise, in any certificate issued for the service sof jurors or witnesses under this act, and any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. Who not to purchase certificates. Misdemeanor. SEC. 24. This act shall expire by limitation on the first day of April, A. D. 1890, and shall be Limitation. in force from and after April 1, 1888. Approved March 8, 1888. CHAPTER LIII. JURORS AND WITNESSES. AN ACT Amending an Act Entitled An Act Providing for the Payment of Jurors, Witnesses and Phonographic Reporters and Creating and Defining the Duties of Court Commissioners, Approved March 8, A. D. 1888. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Section 24 of said act be and is hereby amended by adding thereto the following, to-wit: SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after the date of its approval. Approved March 8, 1888. CHAPTER LIV. PROBATE PROCEDURE. AN ACT Amending an Act, entitled "An Act Relating to Procedure of Probate Courts, in the Settlement of Estates, and in Guardianship," Approved March 12th, 1884. Probate judge SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That to set apart exSection 2 of Chapter 5 of "An Act relating to ty for widow empted proper and children. Same. Interest of widow and children. Same. Procedure of Probate Courts, in the settlemen of Estates, and in Guardianship," approved March 12th, 1884, be amended by striking out all of said section and substituting in lieu thereof the following: Section 2. Upon the return of the inventory, or at any subsequent time during the administration, the court may, on its own motion, or on petition therefor, set apart for the use and support of the widow and minor children of the decedent, if there be a widow and minor children, and if no widow, then for the children, if there be any, and if no children, then for the widow, all the property of the decedent, exempt from execution. SEC. 2. That Section 5 of said Chapter 5 be amended by striking out all of said section and substituting in lieu thereof the following: Section 5. When property is set apart in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter, if the decedent left a widow and no minor child, such property is the property of the widow. If the decedent left also a minor child or children, the one-half of such property shall belong to the widow, and the remainder to the child, or in equal shares to the children, if there be more than one. If there be no widow, the whole belongs to the minor child or children. SEC. 3. That Section 6 of said Chapter V. be amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, that the title to all property assigned under the provisions of this section, shall vest absolutely and equally in the persons to whom such property has been assigned. SEC. 4. That Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of said Chapter V. be, and they are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. That Section 2 of Chapter VI. of said act be amended by striking out the word "two" in the third line of said section, and substituting in lieu thereof the word "three." SEC. 6. That Section 26 Chapter III. of said act be amended by striking out all of said sec tion and substituting in lieu thereof the following: Section 26. Administration may be granted to one or more competent persons, although not otherwise entitled to the same, at the written request of the person entitled, filed in the court. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 8th, 1888. CHAPTER LV. DESERET A. M. SOCIETY. An Act to amend Section 2 of an Act Incorporating the Who entitled to administration on written request. cers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Election of off. Section 2 of an act incorporating the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, approved January 17th, 1856, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. There shall be a president and eleven directors, who shall be elected by the joint vote of the present legislative assembly, and biennially thereafter, by a joint vote of said assembly. Said board may elect a treasurer and secretary, and such other officers as they may deem necessary. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 8th, 1888. CHAPTER LVI. TERRITORIAL FAIR GROUNDS. A RESOLUTION Accepting from Salt Lake City Lands for the Site of Agricultural Fair Grounds for the Territory of Utah and making Appropriation therefor. WHEREAS, The City of Salt Lake has offered and tendered to the Territory of Utah, certain Offer by the city. lands in trust for certain specified uses, in words and figures following, to-wit: The Honorable, the Governor and Legislative Assembly of Utah: GENTLEMEN: I am directed by a select committee of the city council of Salt Lake City, consisting of Mayor F. Armstrong and Alderman W. W. Riter, Thomas G. Webber, W. S. McCornick, James Sharp, and George D. Pyper, to offer and tender to the Territory of Utah, in behalf of the City of Salt Lake, under the conditions, limitations and restrictions hereinafter named, the following described lands and premises, to be used and devoted to the erection of permanent Territorial or State Fair Buildings, to-wit: All of Block 25, Plat B, of Salt Lake City survey, containing ten acres of land; the same being known and designated as the Tenth Ward Square in said city. The said conditions, limitations and restrictions to be as follows, viz.: 1. Acceptance of the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the premises designated and the trust therein conferred. 2. The payment of one dollar. 3. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory and be expended in the years 1888 and 1889 for the erection of permanent Territorial or State Fair Buildings, and for the improvement of said land. 4. That such buildings and land be used exclusively for Territorial or State Fair purposes. 5. That the portion of the grounds not actually devoted to buildings as aforesaid be improved and cultivated as a public park. 6. That whenever the purposes for which the proposed grant is made shall cease to be carried out, and said grounds cease to be used for said Territorial or State purposes as herein provided, then the proposed trust shall cease, and the grant become absolutely void and of no effect and said lands revert to the grantor. On the acceptance of the trust herein proposed and of the condition hereof by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, the mayor of said city will be authorized to execute a proper deed of conveyance of said described premises to the Territory of Utah. Very Respectfully, HEBER M. WELLS, SALT LAKE CITY, March 7, 1888. City Recorder. AND, WHEREAS, It is to the public interest that the said offer be accepted, Now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the Governor and Legislative Assem- Acceptance by bly of the Territory of Utah. that the offer and legislature. tender of said land by the City of Salt Lake to the Territory of Utah, as herein before set forth, be and the same is hereby accepted by the said Territory, subject to the conditions, limitations and restrictions in said offer specified and set forth. And be it further Resolved, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of erecting suitable fair buildings on the above Appropriation. mentioned land, and that said money shall be drawn and expended by the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society in pursuance of the provisions of this resolution. Approved March 8, 1888. CHAPTER LVII. APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT Making Appropriations for General Purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the following sums of money are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Territorial |