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THE CINCINNATI MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF 1828

THE CINCINNATI MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF 1828.

 

 

 

MARY BAKER FURNESS, CINCINNATI.

Cincinnati began its existence as a city under its first charter.

March 1, 1819. By an act of the General Assembly passed

January 26, 1827, a new charter was granted, which superseded

the old one, and did away with all the legislation which had

been enacted under it. According to this second charter, the

city boundaries began with the "Ohio River, at the east corner

of partial section No. 12, running west with the township line

of Cincinnati to Mill Creek, then down Mill Creek with its

meanders to the Ohio River, then eastwardly up said river-with

the southern boundary of the State of Ohio, to the place of be-

ginning." The city area was coterminous with that of the town-

ship of Cincinnati. The northern boundary, as nearly as I can

determine, was the line of Liberty Street extended to the Ohio

on the east. The chief municipal officers under the second

charter were, the mayor, elected biennially, and three trustees

from each ward, who formed the council. The city was divided

into four wards by two lines crossing at right angles, Third

Street running east and west, Main Street running north and

south. The First Ward was in the northeast, the Second in the

northwest, the Third in the southeast and the Fourth in the

southwest. March 2, 1827, by virtue of powers vested in them

by the charter the council divided the Second Ward by an east

and west line from Main Street along Sixth to the corporation

line. That portion north of Sixth and west of Main was the

Fifth Ward. On March 21, 1827, the boundaries of the Third

and First Ward were changed, by an east and west line, which

"began on Main at the intersection of Third, and ran eastward

ly along the center of Third to Ludlow, thence eastwardly along

the center of Symmes to High, and along the center of High

to a point on the street bearing north 16c from the center of the

cupola of David Kilgour's house near the reservoir, and by the

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