| Summary: | Wilson G. Nowers, county clerk; Orson Tyler, sheriff; Lamoni L. Babitt, constable; James W. Huntsman, selectman. In the absence of Simeon F. Howd and Joel W. White, John M. Davis and Ephraim Tompkinson were duly sworn to fill the offices of selectmen until Howd and White could be present to qualify. Ross R. Rogers, notary public and county recorder; C. P. Liston, county treasurer; James P. Anderson and James Duke, fence viewers; Edward W. Thompson, surveyor; John Ashworth, asses-sor and collector; John M. Davis, justice of the peace Charles Carter, supervisor of roads and streets; James Farrer, pound keeper. The meetings of the selectmen, with the Judge presiding, were held at their residence and in the school houses until the spring of 1867, when a room in the Tithing Office Building was procured. At regular and special sessions, laws were enacted to protect the rights and privileges of the citizens of the county. A petition was presented and granted for the right to erect a saw mill and grist mill northeast of the city plot, and the use of the water of North Creek and Beaver Creek to propel the machinery. Later grants were given for the right to erect saw mills in the Beaver, North Creek and Indian Creek Canyons, also the right to make toll roads in said canyons, with the rate of toll to be fixed by the selectmen. The cattlemen, were given the right to use certain sections of the grazing land for herd ground. A bounty of 25 cents was ordered paid for the scalps of wolves. If there was insufficient funds in the treasury, a receipt was given and the amount could be applied on the taxes of the person who brought in the scalps. Licenses were issued to quite a number, to manufacture and sell spirituous liquors. When drunkenness became too prevalent, some of the licenses were annulled. In 1857, the tax levy was set at one-half of one per cent, and the treasurer was ordered to receive wheat, oats, barley and corn in payment on county taxes.
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