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The establishment of Oxford township left Clear Creek township with a small territory. This seems to have led sev- eral citizens to petition for a change in boundaries by which some of the territory of Union would be added to Clear Creek. According to the changes ordered by Judge Lee in July, 1857, the boundaries of Clear Creek were brought to their present description on the south. The northern line was not changed. The south boundary began at the southeast corner of section one, township seventy-nine north, range seven west, and fol- lowed the section line west to the range line. This change took six sections from Union township.107 (See Map XII).
Hardin township was very simple in its establishment and organization. It appears that William Hardin and others pre- sented a petition to Judge MeCleary early in 1858 for a change in the boundaries of the township called Washington by giving a separate organization to congressional township seventy- nine north, range eight west, which was to be called "Hardin." 108 (See Map XIII). But the civil township thus erected on the basis of congressional township seventy-nine did not remain long with these boundaries as will be seen in an- other petition. The first election in Hardin township was held at the school house in the village of Windham, which was lo- cated on section thirty-four.
On the petition of George T. Davis and others Judge Mc- Cleary ordered another civil township to be formed out of
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congressional township seventy-eight north, range seven west. This was done in the year 1858. Before this time congressional township seventy-eight was included in the civil townships of Liberty and Washington - the west half being in Washington and the east half in Liberty. This, indeed, had been its situa- tion from 1846 to 1858. (See Map VII).
The change made in the lines of Union township in 1852, by which the two tiers of sections on the northern boundary of township seventy-eight north, range seven west, excepting one quarter section, were added to Union (See Map X), was now (in 1858) restored, making the new township of Sharon a full congressional township as it remains at the present time.109 (See Map XIII).
A slight modification of the boundaries of three townships was made by Judge MeCleary in 1858 on petition of citizens of the different communities. A. H. Humphreys presented the request as one of the number. The change asked for as given in the records reads: "Commencing at the south-east corner of township seventy-nine, range eight, then west three-fourths of one mile, then north three miles, east three-fourths of one mile, then south to the place of beginning." The territory thus described was to be added to Union township. Again, the north half of the north half of section one, township seventy-eight north, range eight west, was also to be added to Union. This pe- tition, moreover, came from citizens of three different civil townships. Against this proposed change A. D. Packard and others filed a remonstrance protesting against the inclusion of the territory taken from Hardin township. The matter was con- tinued from the session of the county court in which it was pre- sented until the January session in 1859 by agreement of the parties in the case.11º At the meeting of the court in January no mention is made of the matter, and it is probable that the re- monstrance was withdrawn. At any rate the petition was grant- ed and the additional territory given to Union township. It will be noticed that this took a fourth of one section from Wash- ington township, a condition which, if records are complete, is found to exist at the present day. (See Map XIII).
In the meantime, that is between the offering of the peti- tion last above mentioned and its determination, a change was made in the boundaries of Iowa City and Newport townships
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by the taking that part of sections thirty-three and thirty-four in township eighty north, range six west, which lies east of the Iowa river from Newport and placing it under the jurisdiction of Iowa City township. This came about through the petition of Sylvanus Johnson and other citizens of these sections.111 (See Map XIII).
The official act of the county judge in reference to the es- tablishment of Madison township can not be found, since the county records for 1860 are wanting. There is a record fur- nished by the clerk of that township, William Shrimp, who filled that office some years ago, probably about 1880. He gives . the date of establishment as 1860. George McCleary was judge at that time and it is for the last year of his term that the record is not available. But it is not difficult, however, to surmise the description of the portion of Penn township (See Map VII) which was to be included in the new township. It will be remembered that in 1846 the Iowa river formed the boun- dary of Penn township for many miles on its northern border. The new plan reduced the size of the latter materially, as will be seen by comparing the two Maps VII and XIV. Details of the lines which describe Madison are as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of section fourteen, township eighty north, range seven west, the boundary line follows the section line north until it intersects the Iowa river. From this point it follows the river until the range line between ranges seven and eight west is crossed; then it follows this range line until the southwest corner of section eighteen, township eighty north, range seven west, is reached; and from this point it proceeds eastward to the place of beginning. Thus, Madison township includes the fractional parts of two congressional townships. If a petition was presented at the time, which can not now be determined, it contained probably the suggestion of the boun- daries described if not the exact wording thereof. Further- more, the township may have been named by the citizens in their petition.112 (See Map XIV). The first election of offi- cers was to be held at the log school house near Swan Lake.
After 1860 the changes in township boundaries become less frequent and are of a minor nature. The large divisions had been practically agreed upon. Moreover, it is noticeable that in all the modifications that have thus far occurred no objection
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was raised on the part of the county authorities to the arrange- ments proposed by the petitioners. At least the records indi- cate no such opposition. Only one remonstrance is recorded in any case and that came from a body of citizens.
The board of supervisors came into office and began their duties in January, 1861. Their first official act with reference to township organization was to divide Pleasant Valley town- ship by a line commencing at the northern boundary of town- ship seventy-eight north, range five west, on the half section line of section five and following this half section line to the south line of the township named, dividing sections five, eight, seventeen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty-two. The territory west of this line retained the name of Pleasant Valley, while that east of the line was called Lincoln township. The question of election this time was referred to the committee of the board on township organization. It appears from the minutes that the movement resulting in this division was begun by Supervisor Dillatush, and the date of the order was June 8, 1870.
Later in the same month it was ordered by the board that the officers of Pleasant Valley should exercise the same author- ity over Lincoln township that they did over their own town- ship until an election should be held, the same as if no division had occurred.113 The cause of the delay in holding the election in Lincoln township was the opposition of certain citizens to the change. They presented petitions of protest, and the ques- tion was not finally determined until April, 1871, when the parties appeared before the board of supervisors to argue the case. After the arguments were heard the supervisors took some time for consideration.114 Later at the same session it was decided, by a vote of two to one in committee, to change the line of division as described on the half section line to the section line between sections four and five and then to the south boundary. This, it will be seen, moved the line of divi- sion one-half mile to the east. (See Map XV). The first com- mittee on this matter were S. H. Hemsted, Christopher Fuhr- meister, and Wm. T. Buck. The second committee included Supervisors Samuel Spurrier, M. J. Morsman, and L. R. Wolf.
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government was concerned, and they offered a petition in sup- port of this request. After investigation a special committee of the board of supervisors reported on the matter in January, 1873. According to their report the census of 1869 gave the population of Iowa City as exceeding four thousand, or 6,548. The signers of the petition living outside of the city, according to the poll books which were examined, constituted the re- quired number, of a majority. The committee reported that all the conditions of the law had been complied with. The official act of establishing the township of Lucas followed this report. All the territory outside of the corporate limits of Iowa City was to form one township to be called Lucas, while the city area was to retain the name of Iowa City township. (See Map XV). Polling places for the coming general election were fixed at the court house for the people of Iowa City town- ship and the fair grounds for the people of Lucas township.115 (See Map XV).
The first change in the boundaries of Iowa City township, after the formation of Lucas from the territory outside of the corporation, was due to the changes in school districts. Some discussion arose between the independent district of Iowa City and the school township of Lucas, and as a result it became de- sirable to rearrange the lines of Iowa City township. The changes then (April 7, 1879) included the small portion of territory added to the independent district. It began on the left bank of the Iowa river at the southwest corner of lot three, as surveyed by the United States government, in section fif- teen. From this point the boundary extended eastward to the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section fourteen; then north to the northeast corner of the west one-half of the southwest quarter of section two; then west to the northwest corner of the east half of the south- east quarter of section three; and then south to the north line of section ten. This, together with the original territory of Iowa City township, became the new township of Iowa City.116 (See Map XV).
Originally the boundaries of Lucas township corresponded to the congressional township of Iowa City as established in 1846 - if the change in the line of West Lucas can be account- ed for. Somewhere between the years of 1858 and 1870 the
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west three-fourths of section nineteen, thirty, and thirty-one of what was Iowa City township, or congressional township seventy-nine north, range six west, was added to Union town- ship; but no record can be found to show when or how this change was made. It happens that the portion of the township mentioned is the exact counterpart of that on the west line of Union which was added by petition in 1858. It may have been added then as a matter of accommodation; but this is merely an inference, there being no specific authority in the records for such a conclusion. The natural division of Lucas township into two parts by the river led to the establishment of two election precincts on June 2, 1874; and in the returns of elec- tions the divisions came to be called West Lucas and East Lucas without the term "precinct" thereto attached. Hence it was quite natural to speak or write of West Lucas township; and as a matter of fact in the minutes of the county board of supervisors this term does appear before its use is warranted by any authority other than custom.117 The same term is again used in the minutes for 1891 - probably after a petition was offered but before any authority was given for such use.118 The actual division into East Lucas and West Lucas was or- dered on April 8, 1891. Since a change in the boundaries of these townships is given below in full, it is not necessary to repeat here the outside boundaries of the townships. The only change that took place since the establishment of the first boundaries of Iowa City township has been mentioned above in connection with the Union township boundary.
The last change in boundaries, the description of which con- tains the outlines of East Lucas and West Lucas and the boundaries of Iowa City townships, was as recent as Septem- ber, 1910. The minutes of the board of supervisors relative to these boundaries are exact and, indeed, were drafted to correspond with the drawing prepared by the city officers. To describe West Lucas it is necessary to follow the lines very closely to make the change clear either in language or on the map. Commencing at the township line between congressional townships seventy-eight and seventy-nine north, range six west, on the west bank of the Iowa river, the boundary follows this side of the river to the limits of Iowa City; then it runs west to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of the
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