The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1881-09-16
The COUNTY SEAT.
Its Removal is Troubling
Some Of our Big Headed
Erie nds at Mi.ban1.
The Law AKainst Them. Flu, Tkey
Hold q Meeting and Dccice On
RcnoYal.

had occasion to call the attention of
the public to a little gang Of eeIee-wor.
shippers, who have located III Grant
county, and whose chief business
since their arrival here has been to
reach out with ever greedy hands af.
ter the flesh pots Of c..ce. Failing
in their efforts in this direction, .key
are continually foisting themselves
before the public as the leaders of
some pretended public measure, but
always with the same enc IL view
their own personal Advancement. We
have given the names Of the patriots
so often that it is not necessary to
repeat them again, suffice It TO cay
that they are commanded b. =. ).
Bleser. the owner Of the Grant County
Review, who is ably seconded b. The
young man who writes the 'ccals 1or
that paper and few othe~ vortales.
1t will be remembered tha3. tni- little
gang fancied that they saw chance
last winter OF stealing TIE county
SCAT, and with all possible sccracy dis
patched their agent, to i anstoI for
the purpose of secretly getting . spe-
cial act passed TO help ther cut IT
their little schemes. The I'ot vas
Inipped in the bud, aid the ii..y.e party
came home empty handed, ana
thoroughly disgusted with their l,,is-
sion. Since their defect tla le"ders
have had time ( Iecupe-ate from
their disheartening failure, I'D few
evenings ago messenger was sent II
to Mr.. Bleser t. attend 6 county reat
meeting. DR.. Tne-whc has earned
very unsavory reputation OF ate In
| the criminal courts 0f tLf counsy-
was dispatched 70 st. Pal for legal
advice. but az the informat'Cr which
| he received there was EC. at ell few.
lorable to the schemes of the plotteTa
lit was decided to hold a meeting and
decide what was best to be done IN
the premises. and rs the county seat
couldn't be removed without Mr..
Bleser's permission, he was according.
" requested tobe present. The mect-
ing easily decided that the county
seat should be removed, but. the great
trouble was that the Terri torial legis-
lature last winter defined what gen.
eral election was and as vote on tbs
question could only be taken at . gen.
eral election, the plotters knew that
no vote could be legally taken this fall.
For the benefit Of our readers We copy
the original law on this subject, and
also the amendment passed last WIN
ter. from which any sane man can
readily see that vote taken this fal
will be illegal and void. whatever Its
result may be:
Sec.7. COUNTY SEAT CHANGE BY
Two-THIRDs VOTE. Whenever the
inhabitants of any county are dpslrous
OF changing the place Of their county
seat. and upon petition beng present
en- to the county commissioners,
signed by two-thirds Of the qualllled
voters Of the county, 1t shall be llle
duty Of said board, in the notice ioi
the next general election, TO notlls
said voters to designate upon thell
ballots. at said election, the place ol
his choice; and if, upon canvasslne
the votes so given, it shall appear lna'
any one place has two-thirds OF the
votes poilcd. such place shall be w
county seat, and notice OF such clahse
shall be given rs hereinbefore proVla
Cd in the ease of the location OF county
seats of new counties.
The amendment passed last winter
is as follows:
ANIMAL AND GENERAL ELEc1ioN'
DEFINED.
An act to amend section :, chapler =
Of the political code. BE " enacted
by the legislative assembly %
Dakota Territory III.
That section .. chapter q, OF the
nnlitical code. be and the same - mere,
hy amended hy adding at the tild
thereof the following provlso, to-Wli
provided. that all the elections helo
lin the odd numbered years silall pe
termed annual elections, and al elec,
Itions held in the even hulapeleu