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Wheeling Sunday Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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US House Committee adopts bill substitute for Utah governance commission, imposing strict marriage registration and banning polygamous unions, targeting Latter-Day Saints practices. Vote: 7-5 on April 19.
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Proposed Legislation That Will Not Meet the Views of All the Latter-Day Saints.
Washington, April 19.-The House Committee on Territories to-day, by a vote of seven to five, adopted a substitute offered by Mr. Alexander to Mr. Cassidy's bill providing for the appointment by the President of a commission to govern Utah. The provision relating to marriages requires that they shall be solemnized by a minister, judge, or justice of the peace, and that the person so officiating shall file a certificate of marriage before a county recorder of deeds within thirty days after the ceremony. Failure to file or record is punishable by a fine of $500. The substitute makes the solemnization of a marriage when either party to be married has a husband or wife living a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in jail not less than six months nor more than twelve.
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Utah
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April 19
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adopted by house committee on territories by vote of seven to five
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The House Committee on Territories adopted a substitute offered by Mr. Alexander to Mr. Cassidy's bill for appointing a presidential commission to govern Utah. Provisions require marriages to be solemnized by a minister, judge, or justice of the peace, with a certificate filed within thirty days, punishable by $500 fine if not. Solemnizing marriage with a living spouse is a misdemeanor with 6-12 months imprisonment.