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Sec. 138. Wards—names and boundaries.

The territory within the corporate limits of the City shall be
divided into four wards, whose boundaries shall be as follows:

First Ward shall embrace all territory lying east of a line extending
from the intersection of the center of Main and Fifth
Streets, east as follows: Southwardly from said intersection of
Main and Fifth Streets, east, along the centers of Fifth Street,
southeast, and projected in same course to the corporate limits
in the south; westwardly from said intersection of the center of
Main and Fifth Streets east, along the center of Main Street to
the intersection of the center of Main and Fourth Streets, east,
thence northwardly along the center of Fourth Street, northwest
and projected in same course to the corporate limits on the
north.

Second Ward shall embrace all the territory lying north of the
center of Main Street and west of the First Ward as defined
above and east of the center line to Tenth Street, N. W., projected
in a northerly direction to the corporate limits.

Third Ward shall embrace all territory lying south of Main
Street and west of the ward defined above, and east of a line extending
from the center of Main Street southwardly along the
center of Ninth Street to its intersection with the center line of
Grove Street, to the corporate limits.

Fourth Ward shall embrace all the territory in the western part
of said corporate limits which is not embraced within the boundaries
of the Second Ward and the Third Ward as above defined.