Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-19
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AN ACT to define the boundaries of Traverse
county, and to provide for its organization.
BE it enacted by the Legislature OF the State of
Minnesota:
this State, which is hereby declared to lie en-
braced within the following boundaries, to-
wit: Beginning in the center of the channel
OF the Bots des Sioux river at the intersection
OF the line between townships one hundred and
Twenty-Five 129) and one hundred and thirty
(130), thence easter1y on said township line to
the northeast corner of said township one
hundred and twenty-nine Q2g) north, range
forty-fve (45) west, thence southerly on the
line between ranges forty-four (44) and forty
five (45) to the southeast corner of township
one hundred and twenty-five Q25), range forty
five (45), thence westwardly on the line between
townships one hundred and twenty-four Q24)
and one hundred and twenty-five Q25) to the
western boundary of the State. thence on said
boundary line, passing through Lake Traverse
and along the Bots des Sioux river, to the place
of beginning, be, and the same is, hereby de-
clared to be an organized county, with all the
rights, privileges and immunities Of other or
ganized counties within this State.
Tie county seat shall be located at Browns
Valley in said county until the next general
election.
Sec. 2. At the next general election the
question of the removal of the county seat
shall be submitted to the electors of said
county, and said electors at said election shall
have written or printed or partly written and
partly printed on their ballots for State and
county officers the words: "For removal of
county seat to -" the name of the place to
be inserted), and those opposed to such remov-
al the words: against removal of county
seat" and such ballots shall be received by the
Judges of election, and canvassed at the same
time, in the same manner, and returned to the
same office as ballots for county officers.
The canvassing board for said county shall
canvass the returns upon said question at the
same time and in the same manner as returns
for county officers, and if majority of the
votes cast at said election shall designate any
other place than said town of Browns Valley
as the county seat, in that event the place so
designated shall be the permanent county seat,
otherwise the same shall remain at Browns
Valley.
Sec. 3. On the day of the next annual town
meeting to be held after the passage of this
act, polls shall be opened at nine o'clock in
the forenoon and remain open until five o o'clock
in the afternoon, at the several places where
the last annual election was held in said county,
and at such other places therein as may be
hereinafter legally designated, and the legal
voters of said county may proceed to vote for
such officers as they are by law entitled to
elect; said vote to be by ballot, and the ballots
SO cast for such county officers shall be depos-
tied in separate ballot box, which said boxit
is hereby made the duty of the county COM
missioners of said county and of the super
visors of the organized townships therein to
furnish. :.
The judges and clerk of said election shall
be those now provided by law, and said judges
shall proceed to canvass said votes, and within
five days after said election make report of
Srch canyocs tn the cOupfv auditor IF Stevens
county, who shall canvass said returns and is
sue certificates of election to the person having
the highest number Ofvotes for the respective
officers [ofhces], as appears by SAID returns.
within five days after the receipt by him of the
report of the canvass, as above provided for
and said officers shall, within ten days after
the receipt of their said certificates, respec-
lively qualify and enter upon their duties, and
shall hold their respective offices for the time
now limited by law, and until the neA gen.
eral election after the expiration of the time as
so limited and until their respective success
sors are elected and qualified; and it is hereby
made the official duty of said auditor of Ste
yens county to canvass said returns and issue
certificates of election, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and a failure on his part to perform
said duty shall be deemed misdemeanOr, and
be punishable as such, but such failure shall
not prevent any person so receiving the high
est number of votes for any office to be voted
for at such election from qualifying and enter
ing upon the duties of said office, nor invali-
date his election thereto; and said auditor
shall receive the sum of three dollars for can
vassing said returns and one dollar each for
said several certificates, payable out of the
county treasury. of said county.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the town
clerk in each organized town in said county,
and of the judges of election in the morgan
lied part thereof, at least fifteen days prior to
the next annual town meeting after the pas
sage of this act, to give public notice of the
time and place of holding the election herein
provided for by posting in three public places
in each election district three notices thereof,
containing list of the officers to be elected as
aforesaid, one of which notices shall be posted
up at the place of holding said election in each
election district. Provided, that no failure or
failures to give notice as aforesaid shall inval-
idate said election.
Sec 5. There shall be held in said county
of Traverse, at the county seat thereof, one
term of the district court in each year, the
time for the commencement of which shall
be fixed by the judge of said court, until other.
wise provided by law, and all suits, actions
and proceedings now pending in the district
court for the counties of Stevens, Big Stone
and Traverse, which by law would have been
triable in said Traverse county if the same had
been an organized county, shall be transferred
to said Traverse county, and all records per.
tanning to or which properly belong o'Tra-
verse county, where no other provision is
made by law, shall be transferred from the
county of Stevens to the county of Traverse,
and the county commissioners of said last
named county shall pay for transferring and
transcribing such records such sums as they
shall deem to be just ard reasonable.
Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsis-
tent herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved February IA, 1881.
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