History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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PROGRESS OF EVENTS.
In 1862 an ordinance was approved, regulating the
fisheries of the Jordan Kiver. In 1865 laws were
enacted amending the charter of Salt Lake City, 9
and prescribing the mode of assessing and collecting
territorial and county taxes, which must not
exceed one per cent of the assessed value of property.
10
In 1866 statutes were framed defining the
boundaries of counties, locating the county seats, 11
and providing for the establishment and maintenance
of common schools. 12 Between 1854 and 1866 numerous
acts were also passed incorporating agricultural,
manufacturing, irrigation, and road companies, 13 and
Cottonwood canal was to divert half the waters of the creek and conduct
them to S. L. City. Id. (ed. 1S55), 277-8.
9 Among other matters, the city council was empowered to build and control
hospitals, and to direct the location of medical colleges, railroad tracks,
depot-grounds, gas-works, canals, and telegraph-poles within the city limits;
and to collect taxes on real estate for grading, paving, repairing, and lighting
streets, and for drainage purposes. Id. (ed. 1S66), 119.
10 One half per cent for territorial tax, and for county tax a rate to be
prescribed by the county court, but not exceeding a half per cent. Id. , S4.
11 Id., 207-9. The following is a complete list of the county seats in
1866, some of which have already been mentioned. Grafton was the county
seat of Kane co., St George of Washington co., Parowan of Iron co., Salt
Lake City, Beaver, and Tooele of the counties of the same name, Circleville
of Piute co., Fillmore of Millard co., Richfield of Sevier co., Nephi of Juab
co., Manti of Sanpete co., Provo of Utah co., Heber City of Wasatch co.,
Farmington of Davis co., Ogden of Weber co., Brigham City of Box Elder
co., Wanship of Summit co., Littleton of Morgan co., Logan City of Cache
co., St Charles of Richland co., and Fort Bridger of Green Biver co. A
portion of Richland, later Rich, co., including the site of St Charles, Paris,
Bloomington, and other settlements, was afterward included in Idaho. The
county was first settled in 1863 by C. C. Rich. Sloan's Utah Gazetteer, 1SS4,
29, 141.
12 Utah Acts Legist, (ed. 1866), 219-23. For school purposes, a tax not
exceeding one fourth per cent was to be levied by the trustees of each district;
but this might be increased to as much as three per cent by vote of
two thirds of the tax-payers.
"By act of 1S56, the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society
was incorporated, 'with a view of promoting the arts of domestic industry,
and to encourage the production of articles from the native elements
in this territory.' The society was required to hold an annual exhibition
of the agricultural products, live-stock, and articles of domestic
manufacture. By act of 1S62, amended in 1S65, the Jordan Irrigation
Company was incorporated, with power to construct dams across the Jordan,
and divert its waters at any point not more than twelve miles above
Jordan bridge. By acts of 1S65 and 1S66, the Ogden Canon, Uintah,
and Logan Caiion road companies were incorporated; the first with the right
of building a toll-road from the mouth of the canon to Ogden Valley, with
privilege for thirty years; the second with permission to construct a similar
road from Utah Lake, throurh Uintah Valley, to the eastward boundary of
the territory, connecting with the road to Denver, Colorado; the third with
power to build a toll-road from Logan City to the summit of the mountains