Article XXIV, Section 5. [Recognizances -- Judgments -- Records -- Fines due
counties, municipalities and school districts.]
All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before the change from a
Territorial to a State Government, shall remain valid, and shall pass to and be prosecuted in the
name of the State; and all bonds executed to the Governor of the Territory, or to any other officer
or court in his or their official capacity, or to any official board for the benefit of the Territory of
Utah, or the people thereof, shall pass to the Governor or other officer, court or board, and his or
their successors in office, for the uses therein, respectively expressed, and may be sued on, and
recovery had accordingly. Assessed taxes, and all revenue, property, real, personal or mixed, and
all judgments, bonds, specialties, choses in action, claims and debts, of whatsoever description;
and all records and public archives of the Territory of Utah, shall issue and vest in the State of
Utah, and may be sued for and recovered, in the same manner, and to the same extent by the State
of Utah, as the same could have been by the Territory of Utah; and all fines, taxes, penalties and
forfeitures, due or owing to any county, municipality or school district therein, at the time the
State shall be admitted into the Union, are hereby respectively assigned and transferred, and the
same shall be payable to the county, municipality or school district, as the case may be, and
payment thereof be enforced under the laws of the State.
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