The initial Edmunds-Tucker Act is passed by…
1887 CE
Utah had granted full voting rights to women in 1870, twenty-six years before becoming a state—among all U.S. states, only Wyoming had granted suffrage to women earlier—but one of the provisions of the Act is the repeal of women's suffrage; full suffrage will not be returned until Utah is admitted to the Union in 1896.
The act disincorporates both the Latter Day Saints Church and the Perpetual Emigration Fund on the grounds that they fostered polygamy.
The act prohibits the practice of polygamy and punishes it with a fine of from five hundred to eight hundred dollars and imprisonment of up to five years.
It dissolves the corporation of the church and directs the confiscation by the federal government of all church properties valued over a limit of fifty thousand dollars.
The act is enforced by the U.S. marshal and a host of deputies.
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