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Utah delegates, not wanting to deny that portion of the population their representatives and risk failing to comply with the number of delegates listed in the Enabling Act, and still wanting to begin on March 4 as instructed, established a temporary president, James N. Kimball, on the second day of the convention. [37]
The enabling act on 24 February 1923, originally limited until 1 June but extended until 31 October, empowered the cabinet to resist the occupation of the Ruhr. [3] There was an enabling act on 13 October 1923 and an enabling act on 8 December 1923 that would last until the dissolution of the Reichstag on 13 March 1924. [4]
The State of Utah passed legislation in 2012—the Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act—to require the Federal government to grant the majority of federal land in the state to the state of Utah after 2014. According to Donald J. Kochan, the federal government promised to transfer these lands to the State in the Utah Enabling Act of 1894. [1]
The state of Utah sued the federal government Tuesday in an attempt to gain control of millions of acres of public lands. The state is seeking a transfer of 18.5 million acres — about a third of ...
Another 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the State of Nevada, May 5, 1866; North-eastern corner of the Utah Territory is incorporated into the new Territory of Wyoming, July 25, 1868; Utah Enabling Act, July 16, 1894; Territory of Jefferson (extralegal), 1859–1861; State of Utah since January 4, 1896 [2]
Utah’s Republican leaders made good Tuesday on a decade-old vow to launch a legal challenge aimed at wresting control from the U.S. government over much of the federal lands that dominate the state.
In 1894, Congress passed the Enabling Act, allowing Utah to submit an application for statehood, ratify a constitution, and elect state officials. In Section 4 of the Enabling Act it was not clarified that women denied the right vote to ratify the state constitution, it used the phrase "qualified voters of said proposed state."
The Enabling Act provided that Utah's territorial courts would be succeeded by new state courts with the same structure and jurisdiction. [2] When Utah became a state on January 4, 1896, its constitution took effect, and Utah's territorial supreme court was replaced by a new state supreme court.