The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-07
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A law was passed at the session of our Legislature
just adjourned, providing fas 8 general sys.sa. ef ..ews-
ship organization throughout the State. 1t direct the
Commissioners Of each county to meet on or before the
9th Of April, inst, and proceed to divide their respec.
tive counties into towns, by making as many towns as
there are townships, according to the Government Sur.
vey. Fractions Of townships may be attached to an
adjoining town, or ~portioned ont among other towns,
or otherwise arranged Is may Be deemed advisable.
The towns are to be by the Commissioners as
. plurality Of their inhabitants may direct.
A record Of their proceedings is to be made by the
Commissioners on or before the 10th Of April next,
giving tbs names and bounds Of the various towns; and
notices are to be made out for each tewn, by the Com.
missioner Clerk, naming . suitable place for the first
town meeting, which is to be held on the second Tues.
day of May next thereafter. Annual town meetings,
after the first, are:.te be held on the FIRST Tuesday of
April, when there will be chosen BY the qualified elect
os in each town, three Supervisors, one Of whom, shalt
be designated as chairman one Town Clerk, one Al.
SCISSOR, one Collector, one Overseer Of the Poor, ITO
Constobles, two Justices of the Peace, and as many
Overseers Of Roads as there are road districts in the
town. Justices and constables are to be elected for two
year, except to sill vacancies. y
Each town, under this act, is to be the election pre-.
cinct hereafter, and the supervisors shall be judges Of
election. A town containing over eight hundred in.
habitants is entitled to an additional member in the
county board Of supervisors for each additional eight
hundred inhabitants, and for any additional fraction Of
over four hundred. Cities are allowed one member in
the board Of county supervisors from each Of its wards.
Agreeably to the provisions Of this law, the Commits.
sioners Of Dakota County met at Hastings on the 9th
inst, and proceeded TO lay off and name the various
towns as follows -
Mendoza, West St. Paul, Inver Grove, Nininger,
Hastings, Marshan, t ia r II Douglas, t liz, + II;
Hampton, t is, + II, and all in co Of IL. r IS:
Sciota, t lie, r 10 (Waterford and Lewiston); Green
Vale, . liz, r 20; Poplar Grove, t 10 10; Berlin,
t ll3 r 20; Lakeville, t la, r 20; Union t lis, 90
and traction vest Rosemount, { lis r 10; Empire
City, t ia, r 10; Vermillion, { III is.
The names and boundaries may be changed and mod.
fled on or before the 10th inst, by petition from the
parties interested, to the Board Of Commissioners.
Nininger takes in all OF township lis, range Is, tha:
Is :hs county, and runs one mile east in range II, then
south TO the township line. AZ some changes may be
made By the Commissioners, we will not specify any
further until we get their report.
This law is Of incalculable advantage to the peop.e.
as the roads and road making in their own towns come
under their direction, and is not left, as at present, to
the p~reiuaiees and selfish interests Of those who are
to help districts that may affect their owl
thereby. We have had all instance lately,
Of this porcine disposition, in the undertaking to lay
out q direct and convenient road between this town
Hastings. Government by township is the most republi-
can form that can be devised, and is conducive to justice,
good management, and efficiency; it is the plan pur-
sued in New England, under which thci- local wants
have been so we'll cared for.
However, the Law is only good when the people prop.
attend TO their duty, in seeing that the right kind
0: men are nominated and elected to the Offices. It
will make all the difference in the world whether some
politician is pat in, or some smart aud intell;.
gent citizen who will be alive to his responsibilities, and
directly concerned in their able and fearless admins.
1t is proposed, and we think the idea will be
received, that the citizens Of the whole town meet
together and make the necessary nominations without
regard to party or other considerations. A call from
the chairmen Of the various political organizations would
be generally responded to and thus the object could be
1t should be tried the first year, at any rate.