The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-04-18
Township Organization Law.

Township Organization Law.
Be IL enacted 6y the General assembly
cfMe State Of Missouri, as follows:
ARTICLE /.
OF PROCEEDINGS NECESSARY TO ADOPT
TOWNSHIP RGANizATION.
SECTION 1. At any general election
that may be holden in the several coun-
ties in this State, the qualified voters in
any county may vote for or against
township organization, as provided by
this act.
SEC. 2. The county court, on petit
ton of one hundred legal voters of said
county, shall to be submitted to
the voters of the county the question
of township organization under this act,
by the ballot, to be written or printed
for township organization or against
township organization, to be canvassed
and returned in like manner as votes
for State and county officers.
SEC. 3. The clerk of the county court
shall FAUST an abstract of the returns of
said election to be made out and certi-
fed as in elections for State and county
officers, record the same ut length upon
the records of the county court of the
county, and shall certify the same to the
secretary of state.
SEC. 4. If 1t shall appear by the re-
turns of said election that the majority
of the legal voters of the county, voting
at said election for and against township
organization, are for such organization,
then the county so voting in favor ofits
adoption shall be governed by and sub
ject to the provisions of this act, on and
after the first Tuesday of April next sue
ceeding.
SEC. 5. The clerk of the county
court shall thereupon make out notices
for each township. designating the
time and place of holding the first town.
ship election in such township, which
shall be holden on the first Tuesday in
April next thereafter, and shall deliver
such notices to the sheriff Of the county,
who shall cause the same to be posted
in not less than three of the most public
places in the township, not less than
fifteen days before the first Tuesday in
April.
ARTICLE II.
OF II POWERS AND RIGHTS OF TOWN.
SHIPS AS BODIES CORPORATE.
SECTION /. Each township, as a
body corporate, shall have power and
capacity:
Frst-To sue and be sued, in the
manner provided by the laws of the
state.
Second-To purchase and hold real
estate within its OWL limits, for the use
of its inhabitants, subject to the power
of the General Assembly.
Ttrd-To make such contracts, pur-
chase and hold personal property, and
so much thereof, a. may be necessary
to the exercise of its cooperative and ad-
ministrative powers.
F0nrA-TO make such orders for the
disposition, regulation or use of its cor
porate property Is may deem condu-
Give to the interests Of its inhabitants,
FyM-Topurchase at any public sale,
for the use Of said township, any real
estate which may be necessary to Sc
cure any debt to said township, or the
inhabitants thereof in their cooperative
capacity, and to dispose of the same.
SEC. 2. No township shall possess
any cooperative powers, except such as
are enumerated or granted BY this act,
or shall be specially given by law, or
shall be necessary to the exercise of the
powers so enumerated or granted.
SEC. 3. All acts or proceedings by
or against a township, in its corporate
capacity, shall be in the name of
the township and county, but every
conveyance of land within the limits of
such township made in any n for
the use and benefit of its inhabitants.
shall have the same effect as if made to
the township by name.
ARTICLE ILL.,.
! OF TIE ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES
AND EFFECT THEREOF TO CORpO-
RATE RIGHTS.
SECTION I. The county court of
each county shall have full and com.
plcte power and jurisdiction to alter the
bounds of townships, and to increase or
diminish the number of townships in
their respective counties, as they i'm
their judgment shall deem necessary
for the convenience and interests of the
inhabitants thereof; PrerIied, that no
new township shall be established with,
or any township already established
reduced to, less than twenty-four square
miles; and IL is further prorided, that
no new township shall be established,
unless at least n fourth of the legal
voters of the proposed township shall
petition the county court therefor, nor
shall any new township be hereafter
created, nor any township divided or the
bOundries thereof changed, by the coun-
ty court, unless sixty days notice there
of has been given by putting up not
less than five notices in the most pub
I:c places of the township or townships
Interested therein, and by also publishing
such EOtice at least nee in some news
paper pu.. 'ished in the county wherein
said townships are situated, if any be
published therein.
SEC. 2. Townships shall be named
in accordance with the expressed wish
of the inhabitants thereof: Proriicd,
That no two townships in the same
county shall be entitled to one and the
same name; If the inhabitants of said |
townships a not agree upon the
name. their county court shall designate
tke name of said township.
SEC. 8, The county clerk shall,
within thirty days after the county
court has established any new township,
or changed the boundary lines of any or
all the townships in their respective
counties, transmit by mail to the secre-
tary Of state. who shall keep a record
of the same. an abstract of such division
or change, giving the bounds of such
the names designated; and
said county clerk shall record in a book
kept for that purpose a description of
each township ma fully os in sucb "a