The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-12
COMMISSIONERS COURT.

COMMISSIONERS COURT.
Standing Rules Of the Board of County
Commissioners of Allen county, Kansas
Rule l. The Board shall have regular
sessions as prescribed by law.
Rule 2. Special meetings of the Board
shall be called and held as the law
directs.
Rule 3. At all regular meetings the
Board will convene at o'clock A. NJ.
and at special meetings at the hour
named in the call.
Rule f. The chairman shall take the
chair, at the hour appointed for the Board
to convene, whether in regular, adjourn
ed, or special sessions and call the men,
bers to order. He shall preserve order
and decorum.
Rule 5. When the Board is declared
in session, the chairman shall cause the
minutes of the last preceding session
to be read, at which time mistakes, if
any, shall be corrected. For good cause
the reading of the minutes may be dis
pensed with until the following day Of
the session.
Rule 6. All business to be presented
to the Board for action shall be reduced
to writing; petitions must be filed in
the County Clerks Office at least ten
days before the meeting of the Board at
which they are to be acted upon, and all
accounts must be filed at least five days
before such meeting.
Rule 7. Before the first day of each
regular session the County Clerk will
enter into the docket of the Board all
business to be transacted by the Board
at the ensuing session. The County At
torney shall examine all papers filed as
aforesaid, and make his endorsement
thereon, as to the legality of the same,
before the meeting of the Board.
Rule 8. Petitions and accounts will be
disposed of in the order of their arrange
ment upon the docket. Any matter
may be laid over from time to time, and
any party having a matter in litigation
before the Board must, in order to pro-
tect his rights, be present at every ses-
sion of the Board until said matter is
finally disposed of.
Rule Q. All persons in attendance at
any session of the Board must observe
the rules of order. No conversation will
be allowed to interrupt the deliberations
of the Board, and no person will address
the Board unless called upon, and then
confine all remarks to the matter in
hand.
Rule 10. No person other than the
of the Board, the Clerk and his
deputies, the County Attorney and his
assistants, shall be admitted within the
bar unless invited by member of the
Board.
Rule IL. The Clerk will furnish any
person applying, vita the necessary
blanks used in opening roads and for
making up accounts.
Rule IL. Any person desiring a re-
hearing or reconsideration of any mat
ter upon which the Board has passed
must file a motion to that effect, before
the rising of the Board, and day will
be set before adjournment for new
hearing if the Board so grants.
Rule IL. All appeals from the decis
ions of the Board must be taken within
the time and in the manner prescribed
by law.
Rule IA. These rules or any one of
them, may be temporarily suspened by
consent; but shall not be
altered or amended, unless by
concurrence of the Board.
Adopted by the Board February Sth,
1876, and to be in force from and after
said date. T. S. SLOWER,
County Clerk.
The regular sessions of the Board COM
mence on the first Monday of January.
The first Monday after the first Tuesday
in April, and the first Monday of July
and October in each year. The Board
also meets on the first Monday of Sep
TENDER to make the levy for taxes. At
the July session the Board sits as a
Board of Equalization.
The Board for the year 1876 and 1877
is as follows:
First Dissatisfaction Hawley, Hum
boldt; Second District-L. H. GOrrell,
lola; Third District. W. Christian,