Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
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AN ACT to establish the county OF Canby ana
| provide for the location of the county seat
/ and establish the boundary lines thereof and
, to organize said county.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the State
I of Minnesota:
: Section l. That all of townships one hun
dred and thirteen, one hundred and fourteen,
one hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and
sixteen, ranges forty four, forty-fve and forty
six, west fifth principal meridian. be, and the
same hereby is established as the county of
Cacby, BY which name it shall be described
and known.
| Sec. 3. There shall be elected at the next
general election, after the passage of this act,
by the qualified electors residing within the
territory described in section one of this act,
three persons who shall be qualified electors,
residents within said territory. who shall! con-
stitute the first board of county commissioners
of said county. The term of Office of such
board of commissioners shall commence on the
FIRST day Of January, A. D. 1880, and continue
for the period of one year and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified under the gen.
eral laws of tho State.
| Sec. 8. Such board of county commission
ers shall be subject to the iabiliaies and du-
ties imposed, and have power and authority
conferred upon county commissioners by the
general laws of this State, and shall within six
months from the commencement of their term
of Office, by resolution concurred in by any
two of them, locate the county seat of said
county; and when any place shall be so desig-
mated within such county as the county seat
thereof, the same shall remain the county seat
of said county until changed by law, and they
shall appoint suitable persons to fill all the
county offices of said county, which persons so
appointed and having qualified, shall hid
their Offices until the next general election and
and qualified.
SEQ. 4. At the time-before the general
election after the passage of this actor Civ
ing notice of such election fixed by law, notice
shall be given of the submission of changes
proposed by this act to the electors of Lac qui
Parle, Yellow Medicine and Lincoln counties
for ratification, by the same officers and in the
same manner as notices of general elections are
required by law to be given at such elections.
All electors favoring the change proposed by
this act shall cast ballots on which shall be
written or printed or partly written and partly
printed, the words, "for change of boundary
lines of --- county Gas the case may be)
opposed shall cast ballots on which shall be
written or printed, or partly written and
partly printed, the words, against change of
boundary lines Of -- county in favor
of Candy county,
Sec. S. All votes cast in pursuance of this
manner as votes for county officers, and the alb
stract thereof shall be made on one sheet, in
every county voting thereon, and signed and
certified in the same manner as in the case of
the abstract of votes for county officers, and it
shall be deposited in the county auditors Of
flee Immediately thereafter and a Ger
titled copy thereof Immediately for
warded by the county auditor of each
county to tho secretary of State, and if
it shall appear that this act has been approved
by majority of the electors of the counties
" ting thereon at SAID election the Governor
shall make proclamation to that effect forth
with. in such manner he shall deem adj
visible.
Sec. 6. The county of Candy is hereby de-
clared an organized county, and attached to
Yellow Medicine county for judicial purposes.
Sec. Z. All acts and parts of acts inconsist-
ent with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its ratification by a major
ity of the electors in the counties voting there
ON hereinbefore provided. except such parts
as require the election Of county commissioners
for said proposed county, and provide for sub
hitting the changes proposed by this act to the
electors of the counties of Lac oui Parle. Vel
low Medicine and Lincoln, which part of this
act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February q, 1879.