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Show Pg. 70 Johnson, Sheriff, Isaac Bowman, Treasurer; P. C. Merrill School Commissioner, and James bond, John D. Parker and Thomas R. G. Welch, inspectors of common schools. Thus Weber City, now Peterson became the county seat of Morgan County. At the March term 1863, the County Court ordered the business of the county to be done there until further action in the matter. The following June term of court decided that it should remain the county seat, but later developments brought a change. March 18 – 1865, Willard G. Smith succeeded Judge Peterson as Probate Judge. The Selectman, or commissioners, this year were P. L. Merrill, Jonathan Hemmingway and John Robison. There being no Territorial statute locating the county seat, the power to do so seems to have been exercised by the county court previous to 1866. In section 19 of the “Laws of Utah,” approved by the Legislative assembly of the Territory, Jan. 10 – 1866, the boundaries of the county are defined and the county seat was located at Littleton. Pg. 71 The following is a copy of the section: “All that portion of the Territory bounded south and east by Summit County, west by Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber Counties, and north by Weber County and a line running from a point in the eastern boundary of Weber County nearest the most eastern head waters of Ogden River, along the summit of the high lands or ranges passing around the head waters of Plumbar, or Lost Creek, easterly to the point where the northern boundary of Summit County crosses Bear River, is hereby made and named Morgan County, with county seat at Littleton.” Morgan City was incorporated in 1868; and the county seat was removed from Littleton to Morgan by an act approved by the Legislature Feb 19 – 1868. The boundary lines between Morgan, Davis and Weber Counties were not satisfactorily settled until the 15th of July 1878, when the surveyors of the respective counties met and after due consideration made the following report: “We have examined into the matter of the aforesaid counties and have decided that the line between Weber and Morgan Counties crosses the wagon road in Weber Canyon at what is |