The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

I base of the mountains; thence directly
north TO a point directly east Of the
southeast corner of the Church pasture
thence west to the place Of beginning;
including the present surveys of said
city,
/ The ordinance provides for all city
| officers, prescribes their duties, and lin.
its their powers. Schools are provided
for, and an ideal city government &C
eording to the standards Of the early
SOS set up
The qualifications of an eleetor were
set forth thus: "All free white male
inhabitants Of the age Of IS years, who
are entitled to vote for state officers
and who shall have been actual resi-
dents OF said city sixty days next pre-
ceding said election, shall be entitled
to vote for city officers"
Named Salt Lake City.
The name Great Salt Lake City" as
given to the present capital Of the state
by the general assembly of the state OF
Deseret, continued until the legislature
Of Utah on Jan. 20, 1858, changed the
official title OF the city and also Great
salt Lake county by dropping the
Great"
The exclusive control Of the timber
in the canyons on the east side Of the
range Of mountains west OF Jordan, "
was granted to George A. Smith IN the
tenth ordinance, approved Jan. 9, 1851.
Ezra I. Benson gets the exclusive
control Of the timber in the CANYONS
and mountain leading into Tooele val
ley, and the canyons between Salt Lake
valley and ToOele" by the eleventh or
dinance, approved Jan. 9, 1851.
The twelfth ordinance, approved Jan.
Is, 1851. ordains: THAT Willard Rich
ards have the exclusive right of work
ing a road or roads into. or through the
North Cottonwood canyon, and control
the same"
Ogden City is incorporated by the
thirteenth ordinance; the CITY of Manti
by the fourteenth; Provo City by the
fifteenth; Parowan City by the six
teenth, and the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints by the seventeenth
ordinance. The eighteenth ordinance
provides for the establishment and reg
ulation OF estray pounds; the nineteenth
relates TO Enclosures and trespass. the
twentieth regulates the manufacture
and vending of ardent spirits. and the
tWenty-hrst is in reference to Migrants.
Limits Of the Territory.
The act of congress establishing a ter
AAtoAAai government IOF UIdn was dD-
proved by President Fillmore on Sept.
3, 1850. By the time the news arrived in
Utah the second and last session Of the
general assembly of the state of Des-
eret had finished it's work and ad-
Journed. The boundaries Of the terri
tory Of Utah, as set forth in the act of
congress, were cut down somewhat
from those prescribed in the constitu-
ton for the provisional government of
the state Of Deseret, but they took in
a great deal more territory than the
present boundaries of the state Of
Utah. The limits of the new territory
as placed by congress, were described
as follows: Bounded on the west by
the state of California, on the north by
the territory of oregon, and on the east
by the summit of the Rocky mountains,
and on the south by the thirty-seventh
parallel of north latitude"
When this act was received in the ter
ritory, the state Of Deseret passed into
innocUous desuetude, so far as its name
was concerned. However, the acts of
the general assembly of the state of
Deseret remained in force, and were
published in the compilation of the
laws Of 1856. Indeed, the legislative as
sembly of the new territory of Utah
passed a joint resolution which was ap-
proved on Oct. s, 1851, declaring the
laws passed by the provisional govern
ment of the state Of Deseret, and which
did not conflict with the organic act, to
be In full force and virtue.