Pg. 88 Assessor and Collector, Philemon C. Merrill, Marshall and Supervisor of Streets. A city seal was adopted with a coat of arms, an antelope with cliffs of rocks in the back ground, and the inscription, Morgan City, Morgan County, U. T. The first police force consisted of James Toomer, Captain, Thomas Seawell and George Huser, policeman. The first license granted by the City Council was to William Eddington, Mayor, for merchandizing. The second was to Timothy Metz for restaurant, feed stable and store. In July, 1869, the city created the office of Water Master and Robert Hogg became the first incumbent. Richard Fry was appointed City Treasurer in July, 1869. One of the first laws passed was one regulating the sale of liquor. The great Union Pacific Railroad was in course of construction at that time and a lot of liquor was being sold both to white men and Indians, and the city found it necessary to take some action in the matter. Pg. 89 Early in the year 1873, smallpox having appeared in the city and in the county, quarantine was established. The disease was checked with a loss of about five citizens in the city. An agreement was made between Morgan City and Morgan County, in June 1874, to build a court house, city hall and jail together. The building to be 38 x 46 feet, with a rock basement, containing five cells for prisoners, and two stories above the basement of brick. In 1878 the city council ordered that no tax should be collected. The reason being that the crops had been practically destroyed the previous year by grasshoppers. In July, 1878, two hundred citizens petitioned the city council to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors. This ended the sale of liquor in South Morgan. The petition was granted with the proviso, that the agent of the corporation have the privilege of selling out the stock on hand. The people began to feel that the expense of keeping up the corporation overbalanced the benefits derived from it. The city council partook of the