Show CITY LIMITS THE taa following from a town some distance from this city is presented and answered in accordance with the request therein contained editor deseret news you would greatly oblige your cor and a number of your year subscribers bers of tills this city if you yon would publish in the semiweekly SEMI sami WEEKLY news the following with an answer to the same if a city moves its boundary lines lu inclosing closing farms that bave been obtained from the government by homesteaders and pra who have received their patents ts can said city cellest city taxes from said farms prior to the last session of legislature the only way in which an incorporated corp orated city or town could extend its boundaries so as to take n u barms or land not previously embraced therein wa was s to secure the passage by t the h e algi legislature 1 of an act amending t tb b a municipal chancer char and prescribing th the e desired change of boundary lines T the b e legislature toad bad the powei power to enlarge or contract at pleasure the boundaries of a city but the city itself had no right to change its ito own boundaries la in 1886 congress passed a law forbidding territorial legislatures irom from passing special acts of this kind and it ic thus became necessary tor for the utah legislature to pose pass a general law upon this subject applicable mike alike to all cities in the territory and aad this was done at its last session the provisions relative to chaadini ch aDini the boundary lines of cities arc re coo conr bained in article of an act providing tor for the incorporation ot of cities 11 page session laws 1888 A pe petition tion signed by at least asi two fifths V oft of the e property ow owners 8 ers of the district which it is desired to annex to ta the city inest be to the question of such annexation is I 1 then to be voted upon at the next municipal election both by the electors of the city and of the territory pro posed to be annexed it if a majority of both are in favor of annexation the proposed territory becomes a part ot of the city but not otherwise T the annexation properly made all of t tk 49 t taxable bable property in the district I 1 so joined to the city becomes subject to city taxes but a city government hap hag nu no riah to levy a tax on real estate not actually inc included laded within the I 1 boundary lines of the municipality as by or in of law |