Section 8. Documents of any other class in a foreign country, by the original, or by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of the country or sovereign. or with a certificate of the Minister or Embassador, or a Consul, Vice-Consul or Consular agent of the United States in such foreign country, that the document is a valid and subsisting document of such country, and that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 3, 1888. CHAPTER XXI. CHANGING NAMES OF TOWNS, PRECINCTS AND SCHOOL AN ACT Providing for the Changing of Names of precinct or how changed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Name of town, whenever the residents of any town, precinct school district, or school district desire to change the name of such town, precinct or school district, they may petition the county court of their county to order such change. therefor to con⚫ tain. SEC. 2. When the county court of any what petition county shall receive a petition signed by threefourths of the legal voter, as shown by the registration list of the year next preceding, of any town, precinct or school district, asking that the name of such town, precinct or school district be changed to some other name designated in the petition and not the name of any city, town, precinct, school district or place in this Territory, the county court shall order such a change of Change not to affect papers in name, and cause a notice thereof to be posted in three conspicious places in each precinct in the county, and also publish said notice in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Territory. SEC. 3 Wherever the former name of a town, former name. precinct or school district, the name of which having been changed as provided for in this Act, appears in any legal papers or documents, or in any law of this Territory, dated before such a change of name took place, it shall be deemed to mean the new name of the place. Approved March 3, 1888. CHAPTER XXII. NORMAL STUDENTS. Pupils to be educated free of charge in University of Deseret, how selected. AN ACT Providing for the Education of Normal Students. Said SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated annually to the University of Deseret, to be drawn by, and expended under the direction of the Chancellor and Board of Regents: Provided, that fifty pupils shall be selected annually, subject to the provisions of this section, to be instructed free of charge for two years in the Normal Department of said University. pupils shall be selected by the Commissioner of Schools, from persons nominated by the Board of Examination of the several counties, according to the district school population thereof, and his certificate shall entitle the holder to all the benefits of this provision: Provided further, that notification of such apportionment of pupils shall be given by the Commissioner of Schools to each Board of Examination, or to the Superintendent of District Schools of each county, on or before Obligation of the first day of July of each year. In case such nominations are not made and reported to said Commissioner by the Board of Examination of any county before the first day of September of each year, said county shall forfeit its privileges under this section. Each pupil so selected shall sign an obligation to the Commissioner of Schools, conditioned, that for such free tuition, he will Pupils. serve a period as district teacher in this Territory, equal to that during which he received such free tuition: Provided, that in case he refuses so to teach, he will refund to said University a sum equal to the tuition fees regularly charged for any pupil in the Normal Department of the University, during the time of his attendance thereat. SEC. 2. That Section 20, of "An Act providing for the establishment and support of District Schools and for other purposes approved February 20, 1880," is hereby repealed. Approved March 3, 1888. CHAPTER XXIII. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. AN ACT To Prevent Cruelty to Animals. for. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when over- punishment loaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills, or causes or procures to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated, or cruelly killed, any animal, and whoever having the charge or custody of any animal, either as Misdemeanor. Misdemeanor. owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or wilfully fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from the weather, shall, for every such offence, be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment; Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to animals running at large upon the range. SEC. 2. Any person who shall keep or use any bull, bear, dog, cock, or other animal or fowl, or bird for the purpose of fighting or baiting, or as a target, or to be shot at, either for amusement, or as a test of skill in markmanship; and any person who shall be a party to, or be present as a spectator at any such fighting, baiting, or shooting of any bear, bull, dog, cock, or other animal, or fowl, or bird, and any person who shall rent any building, shed, room, yard, ground or premises for the purpose of fighting, baiting, or shooting any animal, or fowl, or bird, as aforesaid, or shall knowingly suffer or permit the use of any building, shed, room, yard, ground or premises belonging to him or under his control for either or any of the purposes aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3. Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of any animal, who cruelly drives or works the same when unfit for labor, or who shall carry, or cause to be carried on or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any live animal having the feet or legs tied together, or in any other cruel or inhuman manner, or shall abandon any maimed, sick, infirm, or disabled animal to die in any public place, or who shall carry or cause to be carried any live animal in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, without providing suitable racks, cars, crates, or cages, in which such animals may stand or lie down during transportation, and whilst awaiting slaughter, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for every such offence in the manner provided in Section 1 of this Act. arrested without warrant; animal or fowl to pound SEC. 4. Persons found violating any of the provisions of this Act may be arrested and held Offender to be without warrant in like manner as in the case of persons found breaking the peace, and it shall be to be delivered the duty of the person making the arrest, to seize master. all animals and fowls found in the keeping or custody of the person arrested, and which are then being used, or held for use, in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, and the person making such seizure shall cause such animals or fowls to be at once delivered to a poundmaster of the town, village or city in which the same may be, and it shall be the duty of such poundmaster to receive such animals or fowles, and to hold the same to be delivered to the owner or his agent upon the payment of all charges for the maintenance of said animals or fowls, SEC. 5. When complaint is made, on oath or affirmation, to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant believes that any of the provisions of this Act are being, or are about to be violated in any particular building or place, such magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue and deliver a search warrant to any sheriff, constable or police officer, authorizing him to search such building or place, and to arrest any person or persons engaged in violating any of the provisions of this Act, as well as any person or persons there present, and aiding or abetting therein, and to bring such person or persons before some magistrate of competent jurisdiction, to be dealt with according to law. Such officer shall, at the same time, seize and bring to said magistrate every article or instrument found in said building or place especially designed or adapted to torture or inflict wounds upon any animal; or to aid in the fighting or baiting of any animal; and unless within ten days after the trial of the person or persons so arrested, the Search war rants, when to issue; instruments of torture to be destroyed. |