The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-14

taxpayers who are qualified electors
of territory to be embraced in the
proposed city, to the board of county
commissioners of the proper county,
which petition shall describe the ter
ritory proposed to be embraced in
such city, and shall have annexed
thereto an accurate map or plat
thereof, and state the name proposed
for such city, and shall be accom-
panied with satisfactory proof OF
the number of inhabitants within the
territory embraced in said limits.
Approved March 9. 1899.
Errors Are Found.
When ii came to comparing the map
on file with County Recorder Meeks
which the county commissioners made
an Intellectual attempt to alter but were
frustrated by Recorder Meeks, City At
tOrney Van Colt found the errors re-
ferred to.
So glaring are the errors that a strip
of land on two sides of the city site, a
quarter of a mile wide. is in question;
whether it is within the city or with
out. The description of the boundary
line of the city limits, as on file in
the Office of County Clerk John James
and with County Recorder Walter J.
( Meeks, reads as follows:
Commencing at a point twenty-five
feet south of the center of the four
rod street known as Highway No. g.,
where the same intersects the quar-
ter-section line so rods east of the
section line between sections 1 and 2,
/ township south, range 1 west, Salt
Lake meridian; thence east along a
line twenty-five feet south of the CEN
ter of Highway No. 81 to the west
bank of Big Cottonwood creek;
thence southerly and southeasterly
along the west bank of said creek TO
where the same intersects the quar-
I ter section line so rods west of the
section line between sections and
! 6, township south, range / east !;
thence south on said line to a point
% feet south of the center of High
way No. as: thence westerly on line
% feet south of the center of High
way No. 80 to a point "a feet west of
| the center of Highway No. s.;
thence north on Highway No. S ten
/ feet, more or less, to the quarter
] section line forming the south boun-
4 dairy line of school district No. 25;
thence west on said south boundary
| line to the southeast corner of the
| northwest quarter of the northwest
quarter of section 13, township 2
| south. range L west, Salt Lake merid-
ian: thence north on the quarter-sec-
ton line to the place of beginning.
Description and Map Differ.
The law says that the description of
! the plat or map of the city must agree
with the map or plat on file. which -
I made a part of the. petition of the citi-
zens asking for incorporation. They
do not agree.
/ There is only on file blue print. It
| is neither map nor plat; it is simply
| an outline of the boundary of the city.
/ There is the first irregularity. AS a
map, or plat, or blue print outline, it
does not contain two highways men
/ toned in the printed description of the
! city. One highway is marked South
/ Sixteenth street on the map. The other
| highway spoken of in the description
appears upon the map, plat or outline
| as State road. There is error No. ,.
In the right hand corner of the blue
print is a description of the boundary,
which should compare exactly with the
description in the petition for incorpO-
ration. On the blue print a certain
highway is spoken of as highway No.
| D. In the two descriptions it is spoken
| of as highway No. 8. While that error
might not mitigate against the incor-
! poratiOn if it were the only one, it is
cited as but one instance to show that
| the records are full of mistakes, more
| on Daoa