ized or permitted within said city to carry on the business in whole or in part, mentioned in this Section, then any other person, corporation, or association of persons, not prohibited by the laws of the Territory, may carry on said business in like manner and under like restrictions and regulations.

SEC. (3). Sections 31 and 33 of an Act incorporating Provo City, approved January 21, 1864, and all acts and parts of acts conflicting herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 13, 1884.

CHAPTER XXXII.

OF LEHI CITY.

AN ACT amending an Act to Incorporate the City of Lehi, approved February 5, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the city council of Lehi City is authorized and empowered to regulate and control the water running into or through or arising in said city, used for domestic and irrigating purposes and may regulate the use of water for manufacturing purposes, and may annually assess and collect a tax from individuals in proportion to the amount of water used by each, and expend said tax in controlling, regulating and supplying said city with water, for domestic, irrigating and manufacturing purposes; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to interfere with the water rights accrued by priority of appropriation.

SEC. 2. The city council shall have power to direct and control the location of railroad tracks hereafter laid and to regulate the rate of speed at which the trains may run within the inhabited portion of the city, and to regulate and control the location of gas works, telegraph and telephone poles and all improvements of a similar nature.

SEC. 3. The city council shall have power to restrain, regulate and prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, swine, goats and all kinds of poultry, and authorize the distraining, and impounding thereof, and may sell the same for the penalty and costs incurred thereon by fine upon the owners of the same for any violation of city ordinance in relation thereto; Provided, That the proceeds of such sale shall be paid into the treasury, of the county wherein said city is located, less the amount of costs and expenses incurred in distraining, impounding and selling, the same, to be used as provided for in Section 408 of the Compiled Laws of Utah; Provided further, That such costs and expenses shall not exceed those provided for in Section 413, Compiled Laws of Utah, for similar service. Approved March 13, 1884.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

OF AMERICAN FORK CITY.

AN ACT amending "An Act to Incorporate American Fork City, Utah County," approved June 4, 1853.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the city council of American Fork City shall have power to direct and control the location of railroad tracks hereafter laid within said city; and to regulate and control the location of gas works, canals for irrigation and other purposes, telegraph and telephone poles, and all improvements of a similar nature.

SEC. 2. To restrain, regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, swine, goats and all kinds of poultry; and to authorize the distraining, impounding thereof, and may sell the same for the penalty and costs incurred thereon by fine imposed upon the owners of the same for any violation of city ordinance in relation thereto; Provided, That the proceeds of such sale shall be paid into the treasury of the county wherein said city is

located, less the amount of costs and expenses incurred in distraining, impounding and selling the same, to be used as provided for in Section 408 of the Compiled Laws of Utah: Provided further, That such costs and expenses shall not exceed those provided for in Section 413, Compiled Laws of Utah, for similar services.

Approved March 13, 1884.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

OF ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

Manner of adopting children.

Proviso.

AN ACT providing for the Adoption of Children.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That any person desiring to adopt the child of another may do so in the following manner.

SEC. 2. The parents, guardians or other person or persons having lawful control, or custody of any minor child may make a statement in writing before the probate judge of the county where the person desiring to adopt such child resides, that he, she or they, voluntarily relinquish all right to the custody of, and power and control over such child (naming such child), and all claim and interest in and to the services and wages of such child, to the end that such child shall be fully adopted by the party desiring to adopt such child, which statement shall be signed and sworn to by the party making the same before said probate judge, in the presence of at least two witnesses; and the person desiring to adopt such child shall also make a statement in writing to the effect that he or she freely and voluntarily adopts such child (naming the child) as his or her own, with such limitations and conditions as shall be agreed upon by the parties. Said statement shall also be signed and sworn to by the party making the same before said probate judge, in the presence of at least two witnesses; Provided, In all cases where such child shall be of the age of fourteen years and upward, the written consent of such child

shall be necessary to the validity of such proceeding; And provided further, Whenever it shall be desirable, the party adopting such child may, by stipulations to that effect in such statement, adopt such child and bestow upon him or her equal rights, privileges, and immunities of children born in lawful wedlock, and such statement shall be filed with and recorded by said probate judge, in a book kept in his office for that purpose.

Proviso.

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SEC. 3. And such probate judges shall appoint a No'ice to be time and place for the hearing of said matter, and shall given of time of give three weeks' notice thereof to all persons who may be interested therein, by publication thereof in a newspaper published in said county, and in case no paper is published in said county then the notice shall be published in a newspaper printed in the Territory, having general circulation in said county.

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SEC. 4. At the time and place of hearing such matter, if said hearing shall not be adjourned, the said probate à decree. judge shall render a decree therein, in accordance with the conditions and stipulations of said statement; Provided, In case it shall appear to the satisfaction of such probate judge, Proviso. that such proceedings are not for the best interest of the child or children, he may refuse to enter such decree, and the matter shall thereupon be dismissed.

entered, to be

SEC. 5. All decrees entered in such case in conformity with the provisions and requirements hereinbefore Decree, when named, shall be conclusive upon all the persons interested conclusive upon [in] such proceedings, and the child or children, thus all persons, etc. adopted shall take the surname of the person adopting the same and all relations of parents and child, agreeably to such stipulations and the decree of the probate court shall attach, and such child or children, if so stated in such decree, shall be subject to the exclusive control and custody of such parent or parents and shall possess and enjoy all the rights, privileges, inheritances, heirship and immunities of children born in lawful wedlock.

Married persons may not adopt

SEC. 6. A married man, not lawfully separated from his wife, cannot adopt a child without the consent of his wife; nor can a married woman, not thus separated from children, exher husband, without his consent, provided the husband or wife not consenting is capable of giving such consent.

cept, etc.

When responsi

SEC. 7. The parents of an adopted child are, from the time of the adopting, relieved of all parental duties bility of parents towards, and all responsibility for, the child so adopted, and have no right over it.

ends.

SEC. 8. The probate judge shall be entitled to charge Fees of probate the same fees for such services as now are provided by law

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for like services in other cases.

Approved March 13, 1884.

CHAPTER XXXV.

OF SALT LAKE CITY.

AN ACT amending "An Act Incorporating Salt Lake City," approved January 20, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the city council of Salt Lake City be and is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance and the enforcement thereof: First-To license, tax and regulate the use of billiard or pool tables and prohibit the use of all kinds of tables in any public place in the city on which gaming for money or the representative thereof is allowed, and to punish the owners and keepers of said tables for the violations of any ordinance of the city. Second-To license, tax and regulate the use of nine or ten pin alleys and all kinds of ball and pin alleys and the runways thereof in any public place in said city, in or on which games are played; and to punish the owners and keepers of such alleys and runways to be used for the playing of games therein and thereon contrary to any ordinance of said city; licensing or regulating their use for such purposes, and the playing of all games on such tables and in such alleys and on the runways of such alleys, shall be deemed to be by and with the consent and permission of the owners and keepers thereof; Provided, That the fee for such license shall in no case exceed fifty dollars per annum for each of such tables nor fifty dollars for each runway of such alleys nor be less that twenty-five dollars per annum for each table and runway as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. To prohibit the playing of any game for money or other property or thing representing money or