Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-12 | Page 2 | Voting Districts in City and County Are Changed

VOTING DISTRICTS IN CITY AND COUNTY I i I County Commission A Amends ends Boundaries and Numbers New Maps to be M Made de A ch change in ill the south boundary boundary boundary boun boun- dary of precinct No 5 3 in in Salt L J o add ty fronT from f l' l the ther r C V and and aj e ew S x Stem of of numbering the th voting dIstrIcts of both the tho city and county were approved approved approved ap proved by the county commission this morning The south boundary ot of the Fifth precinct w was wa's was s 's dropped from Third South to Sixth S 'S South aId and ad runs from Main to the city limits limits on the east This i change makes seventeen districts in inthe inthe I Ithe the Fifth prec precinct and leaves eighteen in the precinct before there were were but but eight In the Fifth precinct precinct precinct pre pre- and twenty twenty seven In the First precinct A complete new system of numbering was adopted The numbers begin with 1 and twenty-five twenty numbers are allotted to each of ot the five lve precincts in Salt L Lake ke so that provision is made for fOl addition of new districts In each of ot them later without interfering with the consecutive numbering For Instance in the First precinct the numbers run from 1 to 25 but as there are but eighteen districts in the precinct now there is a margin of ot seven numbers left for new districts that thai may may be added when new territory Is t taken ken Into th the city or the population in present districts increases so as to require splitting the pre precincts The same system was followed in the tha other I city precincts The numbers in the county begin at and r rim je straight through to at present As new districts are ate added in the county the numbers will be continued In consecutive consecutive tive order oder der Some slight changes were made In a afew afew afew few city and county districts as tc to b boundary lines also New election n dIstrict district district dis dIs- dis- dis maps are re being prepared now by bythe bythe bythe the county surveyor to show these changes