CHAPTER 91. ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF CITIES. AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 20, of the Laws of Utah, 1899, relating to the annual financial statements of cities, the duties of the auditor and city recorder. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. That section 1 of chapter 20, of the Laws of Utah, 1899, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 231. Financial statement of cities to be published annually. Contents. The city auditor, in cities having an auditor, and in all other cases, the city recorder, shall prepare and publish, on or before the first Monday in February of each year, in some newspaper having a general circulation in the city, a detailed statement of the financial condition of the city, and of all receipts and expenditure for the previous year, ending December 31st, showing: 1. The total receipts of the city, stating particularly the source of each portion of the revenue. 2. The amount of cash on hand at the date of the last report. 3. The amount of sinking fund, and how invested. 4. The number, date, and amount of every bond issued or redeemed, and the amount received or paid therefor. 5. The indebtedness of the city, funded and floating, stating the amount of each class and the rate of interest borne by such indebtedness or any part thereof. 6. 6. The amount of cash in the city treasury, and in its several funds. 7. The total expenditures of the city, as shown by the warrants issued, giving in total the amount expended in each department. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 92. NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 54, of the Laws of Utah, 1899, relating to letters of administration. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. That section 1, chapter 54 of the Laws of Utah, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 3818. Notice of hearing petition for letters of administration. When a petition praying for letters of administration is filed, the clerk must set the petition for hearing and give notice thereof by publication or by posting, and by the mailing of notices to the heirs. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 93. CHATTEL MORTGAGES. AN ACT to amend section 155 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to the renewal of chattel mortgages. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. That section 155 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 155. Chattel mortgage expires in one year. Renewal. Every mortgage so filed shall be void as against the creditors of the person making the same, or against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith, after the expiration of one year after the filing thereof, unless within thirty days after the expiration of the term of one year from such filing, and within thirty days after the expiration of each year thereafter, the mortgagee, his agent or attorney, shall make an affidavit exhibiting the interest of the mortgagee in the property at the time last aforesaid, claimed by virtue of such mortgage, and if such mortgage is to secure the payment of money, the amount yet due and unpaid, and shall file the same with the county recorder, to be attached to the instrument or copy on file to which it relates; provided, that no mortgage of personal property shall be valid as against creditors of the mortgagor or subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith, after the expiration of five years from the date of the original filing. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 94. UNIFORM EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. AN ACT providing for uniform examinations of teachers in the different counties of the state of Utah. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. State board to prepare questions for examination of teachers. The state board of education shall prepare lists of questions to be used by the county superintendents of the several counties of the state in the examination of applicants for teacher's certificates, and shall make such suggestions concerning their use; prescribing rules and regulations as shall tend to secure uniform examinations in the different counties. The board may call to its aid, in the preparation of such questions, such assistance as it may deem proper. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 95. TEACHER'S EXAMINATION. AN ACT amending section 1795 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to teacher's examinations. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: That section 1795 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 1795. County board to hold teacher's examination each year. The county board of examiners shall hold teacher's examinations during each year, at such times and under such rules as the state board of education may direct. If from the percentage of correct answers required by the rules and other evidences disclosed by the examination, including particularly the superintendent's knowledge and information of the candidate's experience and ability as a teacher, the applicant is found to be a person of good moral character, and to possess such knowledge and understanding, together with aptness to teach and govern, as will enable the applicant to teach successfully in the district schools of the state the various branches required by law, said board of examiners shall grant such applicant a certificate of qualification. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 96. INFERNAL MACHINE, AN ACT defining an infernal machine, and prescribing penalties for the construction or contrivance of the same, or having any such machine in possession, or delivering such machine to any person or common carrier, or sending the same through the mail, or throwing or placing the same where any person may be injured in his person or property, and providing where offenses against this act may be tried in case of such infernal machine being transmitted outside the county where delivered. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. Infernal machine defined. That an infernal machine is any box, package, contrivance or apparatus, containing or arranged with an explosive or acid or poisonous or inflammable substance, chemical, or compound, or knife, or loaded pistol or gun or other dangerous or harmful weapon or thing, constructed, contrived or arranged so as to explode, ignite or throw forth its contents, or to strike with any of its parts, unexpectedly when moved, handled or open, or after the lapse of time, or under conditions, or in a manner calculated to endanger health, life, limb or property. Sec. 2. Penalty for sending by mail or express. That every person who delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any express or railway company or other common carrier or to any person any infernal machine, knowing it to be such, without informing such common carrier or person of the nature thereof, or sends the same through the mail, or throws or places the same on or about the premises or property of another, or in any place where another may be injured thereby, in his person or property, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not exceeding twenty-five years. Sec. 3. Penalty for constructing or having in possession. That every person who knowingly constructs or contrives any infernal machine, or with intent to injure another in his person or property, has any infernal machine in his possession, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not exceeding five years. That any person Sec. 4. Where prosecuted in certain cases. knowingly delivering any such infernal machine to any railway, express, or stage company, or to any person or company whatever for transmission to any person in another county may be prosecuted in the county in which he delivers the same, or the county to which the same is transmitted. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect upon approval. CHAPTER 97. VOTE OF THANKS TO SCOFIELD RELIEF COMMITTEE. Be it resolved, by the Governor and the House of Representatives of the State of Utah, the Senate concurring: That its vote of thanks be tendered to that committee appointed by his excellency, the Governor, viz.: J. T. Hammond, E. W. Wilson, Wm. F. Colton, Ezra Thompson, A. W. Carlson, A. L. Thomas, Wm. Iglehart, Mrs. O. J. Salisbury, Mrs. Geo. M. Downey, Mrs. A. R. Haywood, Lafayette Holbrook, John Jones, O. G. Kimball, and T. J. Parmely, in appreciation of the disinterested, conscientious, intelligent, and painstaking duties performed by them for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster which occurred in the mines of the Pleasant Valley Coal Co. at Scofield, Utah, May 1st, 1900. And be it further resolved, that a vote of thanks by this House of Representatives and the Senate be extended to the sympathetic people of the United States, and elsewhere who responded so generously to the appeal by the Governor for aid to said sufferers. That said vote of thanks be extended to the brave men, who taking their lives in their hands, without halt or faltering went so nobly to the work of rescue in said disaster. Also to the Rio Grande Western Railway Co. for its generous tender of transportation to the relatives and friends of the victims. And to the Pleasant Valley Coal Co. for its unceasing efforts to relieve the sorrows, and for its magnificent contribution to the needs of the children made fatherless, and the wives made husbandless by said disaster. Be it resolved further, that said vote of thanks be spread upon the Journals of the House and Senate. Approved this 14th day of March, 1901. CHAPTER 98. SALARIES OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF STATE PRISON. AN ACT amending section 2238 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to salaries, quarters, and board of the employees of the state prison, the time of payment of such salaries and the fixing of the same by the state board of corrections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. That section 2238 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 2238. Salaries of officers and employees to be fixed by board. Perquisites. The salaries of all officers and employees of the Utah state prison shall be fixed by the state board of corrections and shall be paid monthly at the office of the prison. The warden shall in addition to his salary be allowed the use of house, fuel, lights and provisions for his family and for guests who visit him on business connected with the prison, and any officer may, in the discretion of the board be allowed the use of a house or an apartment free of rent. No officer or any person employed in or about the prison shall be permitted to receive in any way perquisites, emoluments or supplies for himself or his family from the prison other than the compensation allowed by the board. The board may, if it shall deem it for the interest of the prison, require the keepers, guards, and such of the employees as it may designate, to be lodged and messed or boarded in the prison, and for that purpose may furnish lodging rooms in a plain and substantial manner, and supply provisions from the prison stock, which shall be cooked and prepared by the labor of convicts, and served at such time and on such terms, and in such place as the board may direct. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval. |