Hoar Amendment
Hoar amendment to the Edmonds Act. The non-Mormon Governor of the Territory of Utah was authorized to appoint any vacancies of office that were not filled by the election of August 1882 in consequence of the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act, and filled the vacancies with his own appointees.
[Source: Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm]
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