Article XXIV, Section 16. [When Constitution in force.]
The provisions of this Constitution shall be in force from the day on which the President
of the United States shall issue his proclamation, declaring the State of Utah admitted into the
Union; and the terms of all officers elected at the first election under the provisions of this
Constitution, shall commence on the first Monday, next succeeding the issue of said
proclamation. Their terms of office shall expire when their successors are elected and qualified
under this Constitution.
Done in Convention at Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, this eighth day of May, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and nineteenth.
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