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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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608<br />

PROGRESS OF EVENTS.<br />

In 1862 an ordinance was approved, regulating the<br />

fisheries <strong>of</strong> the Jordan Kiver. In 1865 laws were<br />

enacted amending the charter <strong>of</strong> Salt Lake City, 9<br />

and prescribing the mode <strong>of</strong> assessing and collecting<br />

territorial and county taxes, which must not<br />

exceed one per cent <strong>of</strong> the assessed value <strong>of</strong> property.<br />

10<br />

In 1866 statutes were framed defining the<br />

boundaries <strong>of</strong> counties, locating the county seats, 11<br />

and providing for the establishment and maintenance<br />

<strong>of</strong> common schools. 12 Between 1854 and 1866 numerous<br />

acts were also passed incorporating agricultural,<br />

manufacturing, irrigation, and road companies, 13 and<br />

Cottonwood canal was to divert half the waters <strong>of</strong> the creek and conduct<br />

them to S. L. City. Id. (ed. 1S55), 277-8.<br />

9 Among other matters, the city council was empowered to build and control<br />

hospitals, and to direct the location <strong>of</strong> medical colleges, railroad tracks,<br />

depot-grounds, gas-works, canals, and telegraph-poles within the city limits;<br />

and to collect taxes on real estate for grading, paving, repairing, and lighting<br />

streets, and for drainage purposes. Id. (ed. 1S66), 119.<br />

10 One half per cent for territorial tax, and for county tax a rate to be<br />

prescribed by the county court, but not exceeding a half per cent. Id. , S4.<br />

11 Id., 207-9. The following is a complete list <strong>of</strong> the county seats in<br />

1866, some <strong>of</strong> which have already been mentioned. Grafton was the county<br />

seat <strong>of</strong> Kane co., St George <strong>of</strong> Washington co., Parowan <strong>of</strong> Iron co., Salt<br />

Lake City, Beaver, and Tooele <strong>of</strong> the counties <strong>of</strong> the same name, Circleville<br />

<strong>of</strong> Piute co., Fillmore <strong>of</strong> Millard co., Richfield <strong>of</strong> Sevier co., Nephi <strong>of</strong> Juab<br />

co., Manti <strong>of</strong> Sanpete co., Provo <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> co., Heber City <strong>of</strong> Wasatch co.,<br />

Farmington <strong>of</strong> Davis co., Ogden <strong>of</strong> Weber co., <strong>Brigham</strong> City <strong>of</strong> Box Elder<br />

co., Wanship <strong>of</strong> Summit co., Littleton <strong>of</strong> Morgan co., Logan City <strong>of</strong> Cache<br />

co., St Charles <strong>of</strong> Richland co., and Fort Bridger <strong>of</strong> Green Biver co. A<br />

portion <strong>of</strong> Richland, later Rich, co., including the site <strong>of</strong> St Charles, Paris,<br />

Bloomington, and other settlements, was afterward included in Idaho. The<br />

county was first settled in 1863 by C. C. Rich. Sloan's <strong>Utah</strong> Gazetteer, 1SS4,<br />

29, 141.<br />

12 <strong>Utah</strong> Acts Legist, (ed. 1866), 219-23. For school purposes, a tax not<br />

exceeding one fourth per cent was to be levied by the trustees <strong>of</strong> each district;<br />

but this might be increased to as much as three per cent by vote <strong>of</strong><br />

two thirds <strong>of</strong> the tax-payers.<br />

"By act <strong>of</strong> 1S56, the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society<br />

was incorporated, 'with a view <strong>of</strong> promoting the arts <strong>of</strong> domestic industry,<br />

and to encourage the production <strong>of</strong> articles from the native elements<br />

in this territory.' The society was required to hold an annual exhibition<br />

<strong>of</strong> the agricultural products, live-stock, and articles <strong>of</strong> domestic<br />

manufacture. By act <strong>of</strong> 1S62, amended in 1S65, the Jordan Irrigation<br />

Company was incorporated, with power to construct dams across the Jordan,<br />

and divert its waters at any point not more than twelve miles above<br />

Jordan bridge. By acts <strong>of</strong> 1S65 and 1S66, the Ogden Canon, Uintah,<br />

and Logan Caiion road companies were incorporated; the first with the right<br />

<strong>of</strong> building a toll-road from the mouth <strong>of</strong> the canon to Ogden Valley, with<br />

privilege for thirty years; the second with permission to construct a similar<br />

road from <strong>Utah</strong> Lake, throurh Uintah Valley, to the eastward boundary <strong>of</strong><br />

the territory, connecting with the road to Denver, Colorado; the third with<br />

power to build a toll-road from Logan City to the summit <strong>of</strong> the mountains

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