The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-03-04
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liver the sane to the person owning the
same.
SEC. 5. That the o~nef Of said fencs
shall cause the examination provided fol
in section four to be maae annually
thereafter for three years, ami the sufii
cheney Of said fence TO be certified to; said
certificate shall be psimd .facie evidence
Of its sufliciency for three years.
SEC. 4. That the owners of all do
nestle animals, or those persons having
possession and control OF them, shall be
liable for all damages done to the hedge
or crops standing or growing within the
Enclosure provided for herein, and shall
be collected by the person entitled there
to, the same a. damages in other cases
are collected by law, and shall have a
lien for such damages on the domestic
animals for all damages done by them.
SEC. Z. Upon petition being present
ed to the county commissioners OF any
county, signed by majority of the legal
voters of said county, as shown by the
number of votes cast at the last general
election. they shall, by proclamation call
an election, to be held at general elec-
ton for township or county officers, and
shall submit to the electors the question
to adopt or reject the hedge law; and
upon the ballot shall be written or pri,,-
ted "For the hedge law" against the
hedge law" under the provisions of the
general election law; and the judge of
election shall count the ballots cast for
and against the hedge law, and make
due returns of the same to the county
commissioners, as other returns are re-
quired by law to be made. That said
commissioners shall meet within ten
days, and. with the clerk of the county.
shall proceed to count said vote. and
declare the result in proclamation. to
he published two weeks in some news
paper in general circulation in the coun-
ty in which proclamation is made. If a
majority of the votes are for such law,
they shall declare said law to be in full
force and effect, and shall state the day
on which the same shall take effect, not
longer than two weeks from the date of
the election; and from and after such
date. the provisions of this act shall he
in full force and effect: Provided, That
the provisions of this act shall apply to
all unorganized counties, without a vote
of the electors being had thereon.
SEC. 8. Nothing in this act shall he
construed SO as to extend its provisions
to any organized county. until after the
election provided for in the preceding
section
SEC 9. That whenever any county
shall fail to cast majority of their votes
for the hedge law, the county commits
sioners may, annually thereafter, submit
the same question to the electors of their
respective counties in the same manner
as provided i'm section seven of this act.
and declare the result as hereinbefore
provided. The provisins of this act
shall also apply to hedges already grown.
This act shall not apply TO the counties
Of Shawnee. Linn. Jefferson, Leaven-
worth, Crawford, Wyandottee or Doni.
phan.
SEC. TO- This act shall take effect and
he in force from and after it's publication
in The Rnrsns Dai'y Trihune
Approved March e 1868.
Published in The Kansas Daily Tribune
March u, 1868.