Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
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Proposition to insert in Constitution on Division of Counties
By Francis of Morgan
1st No county shall be divided or have any part stricken therefrom, without first submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county, nor unless a majority of all the legal votes of the county voting on the question of all vote for the same
2nd There shall be no territory stricken from any organized county unless a majority of votes shall petition for such division, and no territory shall be added to any organized county without the consent of the majority of the voters of the county to which it is proposed to be added but the portion so stricken off and added to another county, or formed in whole or in part into a new county shall be holden for and be obliged to pay its proportion of the indebtedness of the counties from which it has been taken.
From Con of Nebraska
[Text Obtained from the Utah State Digital Archives "Files; 72-80; March 15, 1895".]