Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-23

""'c destroyed the crops in tlrcir r.spcctivo
co""''b . 70 MI extent sufficient to cnuSc dis |
trcss in any Of the commu mites Of said conn
ties, may call a meeting Of said board of coun-
~ commissioners at the county seat of the
county, ON tho 18th day Of March. 1872 and
such adjourned mcctngs us NAV be necessary
up I" and including the 3Oth dav Of yuid
month, ut which meetings all citizens of such
county who suffered loss or damage to their
crops, improvements or other property, by fire
or storm, ut any time during the summer or fall
Of 1871 and who have not been paid ins urancc
for said loss, may present to the said board u
statement In writing Of said loss or damage
the amount and value Of tho property destroy
| ed or damaged, and tho time md cause of such
| loss or damage, which statement shall be duly
signed and sworn to by tho applicant, before
some officer authorized to administer M oath
The said board shall, thcreup0n, forthwith
| examine into the merits Of said claim, and may
allow or disnll0w the same, in whole or in part,
Us they find the facts in the cIsc may justify,
! and thcrcupon tho chairman of said board
| shall endorse on the said claim the amount or
balance allowed, and file the said claim 80 en-
.iorsed, with the county auditor 0, said county.
Provided, That 10 no case shall tho claim Of
any one person be allowed at . greater sum
| than nifty dollars, nor shall the same be allow
cd, unless the claimant shall DO an actual bona
Gde resident Of the said county in which tho
claim is presented.
Sec 3. On tho both day Of March, 1872, or
within three dsye thereafter, tho county audi
tors Of tho several counties, in which any such
claims havo been pr eferrodsh.ll make ovt.cer.
THY and seal, duplicate consolidated state
menta OF al' such claims, any part whereof has
| been allowed by said county board, with the
name and post Office address of tho applicant,
the township where he resides, the amount and
value OF property lost or damaged rs aforc-
said, and the amount Of damages allowed by
tho county board. The said duplicates shall
be certified as correct by tho chairman of the
board, and one copy thereof fled in the Office
OF tho County Treasurer Of said county, AMI
one cory sent by mail or otherwise to the
GoverDor Of tho State, at the tho city Of St.
Paul.
Sec 4. 1t shall be tho duty of tho Cover
nor, on or before the fifteenth day of April,
1872. to consolidate oil such statements rccoiv-
cd BY him up to that date in duplicate, and
after duly certifying the same, forthwith to flo
ono copy thereof in the Office Of the State Au-
ditor, and one copy in the Office Of the State
Treasurer.
Sec. 5. The State Auditor, upon receipt of
said duplicate, shall proceed at once to issue
certificates under his hand and seal, in the
name Of the several claimants. specifying the
amount will be, on the 18th day Of May, A. D..
1872 subject to tho o, der of said claimant, at
tho Office Of the State Treasurer, upon return
of said certificate.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be tho duty of tho State
Auditor. on before the goth day of April,
A. d. 1872, to transmit by mail or express, to
the treasurer of the county where the several
claimants reside, the certificates herein men
toned. Said treasurer shall deliver to said
claimants in person, or to their authorized
agents. the certificates to which they shall be
scverally entitled, and take a receipt therefor
from each, respectively.
Sec. 7. The sum Of twenty thousend dol
lars is hereby appropriated out Of unexpended
balances in tho treasury, not otherwise appro-
priatcd, to carry out tho provisions Of thil
act.
Sec. s. Should the amount allowed to
claimants in the aggregate exceed tho sum up.
propriated. it shall be the duty of the State
Auditor to apportion the amount to such
claimant in tho ratio that the whole amount
allowed bears to the amount appropriated, and
to issue his certificate accordingly.
SEQ. Q. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Approved February 70, 1872.