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Jan. 18. 1865,

Sixth the County superintenden shall enter in his recouds every official return made to him by school trustees and teachers, and keep the same in his office subject to the inspection of the Territorial Superintendent and the County Court of his respective county.

SEC. 12. Each school district may, by a two third vote of the tax-payers of the district, assess and collect a tax not to exceed two per cent for the purpose of assisting to pay qualified school teachers, and to provide suitable books.

SEC. 13. In case of a vacancy of County superiotendent, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Territorial Superintendent shall have power to fill the vacancy by appointment.

SEC. 14. An Act entitled an Act in relation to common schools, approved Dec. 30, 1854, also an Act approved Jan. 20, 1860, and an Act approved Jan. 15, 1862, are hereby repealed.

GEO. A. SMITH,

President of the Council.' JOHN TAYLOR,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Approved Jan. 18, 1865.

JAMES DUANE DOTY,

Governor."

AN ACT

To incorporate Logan city.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That all that district of country embraced in the following boundaries in Cache county, to wit: commencing at the south bank of the Logan river, at the mouth of Logan kanyon, thence in a northerly direction along the base of the mountains three miles; thence west to the west banks of Little Bear river; thence south along said bank to the mouth of Logan river; thence in an easterly direction

Along the south bank of said river to the place of beginning: shall be known and designated under the name and style of Logan city; and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name aforesaid; and shall have perpetnal succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.

SEC. 2. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever to purchase, receive, hold, sell, lease, convey, dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of said city, both within and without its corporate boundaries; to improve and protect such property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons.

SEC. 3. The municipal government of said city is hereby vested in a City Council, to be composed of a mayor, three aldermen, one from each ward, and five councilors, who shall have the qualifications of electors in said city, and shall be chosen by the qualified voters thereof, and shall hold their office for two years, und until their successors are elected and qualified.

SEC 4. An election shall be held on the first Monday of May next, and every two years thereafter, on said day, at which there shall be elected, one mayor, three aldermen and five councilors; and the persons respectively receiving the highest number of votes cast in the city for said officers, shall be declared elected. When two or more candidates shall have an equal number of votes for the same office, the election shall be determined by the City Council.

SEC. 5. The first election under this act shall be conducted in the following manner, to wit: the County clerk of Cache county shall cause notice of the time and place, and the number and kind of officers to be chosen, to be posted ap in four public places in said city, at least ten days previous to said election. Two judges shall be selected by the Probate Judge of Cache county, at least one week previous to the day of election, said judges shall choose two clerks, and the judges and clerks before

entering upon their duties shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the clerk of the County Court for the faithful performance of said duties. The polls shall be open at 8 o'clock, a.m., and shall close at 6 o'clock, p.m. At the close of said election the judges shall seal up the ballot box and the list of names of the electors, and transmit the same within two days from the time of holding such election to the County clerk of Cache county. As soon as the returns are received, the County clerk in the presence of the Probate Judge, shall unseal and examine them, and furnish within five days to each person having the higaest number of votes, a certificate of his election. In case of a tie, it shall be decided by lot drawn by the County clerk in presence of the Probate Judge.

SEO. 6. All subsequent elections held under this act shall be held, conducted, and returns thereof made as may be provided for by ordinance of the City Council.

SEC. 7. The City Council shall be judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members, and a majority of them shall form a quorum to do business, shall determine the rules of their own proceedings, and shall meet at such time and place as they may direct; the mayor shall preside when present and have a casting vote; and, in the absence of the mayor, any alderman present may be appointed to preside over said meeting.

SEC. 8. The City Council nav hold stated meetings, and special meetings may be called by the mayor or any two aldermen, by notice to each of the members of said council, served personally, or left at their usual places of abode.

SEC. 9. The City Council shall have power to appoint a marshal, recorder (who shall be the auditor of Public accounts), treasurer, assessor and collector, supervisor of streets, surveyor, an attorney, a sexton, a sealer of weights and measures, and all such other officers as may be necessary, define their duties, remove them from office at pleasure and fix and establish the fees of all city offi

cers.

SEC. 10. All officers elected in accordance with the fourth section of this act may be removed for cause from such office by a vote of two-thirds of the City Council, and shall be furnished with the charges, and have au opportunity to be heard in their defence, and the Council shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of papers when necessary.

SEC. 11. When a vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or removal of any officer, such vacancy may be filled by the City Council, and every person elected or appointed to any office under this act shall, before he enters upon the duties thereof, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he will support the Constitution of the United States, the laws of this Territory, and the ordinances of the city, and that he will well and truly perform all the duties of his office to the best of his knowledge and ability, and shall be required to give bonds as shall be prescribed by the city ordinances, which oath and bond shall be filed with the City recorder.

SEC. 12. The City Council shall have power to divide the city into wards and specify the boundaries thereof, and when necessary create additional wards, and add to the number of aldermen and councilors, and proportion them among the several wards as may be just and most conducive to the welfare of said city.

SEC. 13. The mayor and aldermen shall be conservators of the peace within the limits of the city, and shall give bonds and qualify as other justices of the peace, apd when so qualified shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction, both in civil and criminal cases arising under the laws of the Territory, and may be commissioned as justices of the peace in and for said city by the Governor. They shall account for and pay over all fines and forfeitures arising under the ordinances of the city into the City treasury, and all fines and forfeitures arising under the laws of the Teritory into the County treasury, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry into effeet all ordinances of said city. Appeals may be had from any decision or judgment of a mayor or alderman's court in the same manner as may be provided by statute for appeals from justices' courts, and they shall account

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