Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-03-17

bill as we received it, and assuming ii tc
he correct copy, it is a most peculiar
institution worthy Of the august bod,
from which it emunated. The people o
this county, We think, would cast 6
majority vote in favor Of funding, but i,
is not by any means sure thing tha,
they would do so They would, first
desire to know for certain just how We
stand and what is to be the condition oi
our county credit. IN al probability
there is considerable diversity Of senti
ment in Pennington county in regard tc
funding.
The child-like and bland Nowlin
therefore, introduces a bill providing
that in no case can this funding scheme
carry without the board Of commission
ers are petitioned by at least a majority
Of the legal voters. How smooth This
has an expression as Christian-like as
the sonifcation Of all the beatitudes
OF course, the dear people are to express
their own sweet will in the matter, and
without they are pleased the thing
comes to naught. That is the way the
thing looks on its face but, let us glance
for moment at the provisions of au-
other bill introduced by the Honorable
member, whose constituents reside in
Rapid and Fall River The bill we refer
TO is an act repeating certain portions Of
our funding act Of 1870 under which the
finances of Pennington and Custer coun-
ties have been managed since its pas
sage. This repeating act provides that
no more certificates of Indebtedness
shall be issued after April lst, 1888, and
that all properly audited and allowed
claims shall be paid with an interest
bearing warrant, provided. however,
that no trarrant shnU be issued for any deJt
contracted prior 10 AprH LIST, 1888. That
.'"nes as near being thumbscrew as
any modern instrument we have motto
ed. II will be ut once seen that, unless
majority Of the legal voters are in
favor Of funding and DO petition the
board to that effect, all our outstandn.
scrip is little worse than blank paper,
for il is ut lea-, no good for further use
and if blank n,iyht be made use Of No
warrants can bp issued for them, and no
money can be drawn from the treasury
except on warrant or bond, there
fore boui The Indebtedness or rcpudiatc
IT. is Mr NoNiins auto0ratit mandate
10 the constituents whose interests are
to- him - dear As we before stated,
we belize, that majority here are in
favor of iundiug, ljut they Won d prefer
10 have something 10 gay about the
matter OF adjusting their OWE Affairs,
this. however. is taken away from us 10y
the cnactmcuts Of the Legislature. We
can't afford to rcpudiate our outstanding
Indebtedness. and must therefore fund it
Nolens, Nolens.
There is one other thing in the bill
which, we believe, Mr. Nowln is lawyer
cnongh to understand, but to ordinary
mortals there has not been vouchsafeo
suuicient acumen. The bin starts out
by saying con and after the passage
and approval of this act, the commission
ers shall have the authority and il is
hereby made their dnty," etc, to fund
the outstanding certificates. Then it
ends up by saving that nothing in this
act shall be construed to allow them to
fund until they are petitioned SO to do
10y a majority Of the legal voters, to be
determined by the votes cast at the
general election in 1888
Now, in the first place under the law
there is no general election in 1888 it
being established by law that on odd
numbered years we have an annual
election, on the even numbered years a
general election Then il is made the
duty Of the commissioners to fund on
and after the passage and approval of
the act, which is now. Yet, the majority
must be determined by the votes of an
election which can never occur The
only solution that We can get at as to
this specimen of legislative conundrum
Is that 1883 should read 1882, but that
the bill sent by Nowlin reads 1888, We
have good reason to belive, whether it
was corrected or not is open to doubt as
there was little inclination on this part
of the legislature to look after such
small fry when such big game as the
capitol removal was around.
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near ut hand, and no one familiar with
antidotes.
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