Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-21
the en,,mera1ols

II. The returns Of the enumerators
are to be made in writing, giving name, age aud
sex to the county enumerator, who shall col
late all returns and turn them over to the chief
from counties and place them in
census committee. Tho committee s,ll e are ,
to complete their work and make returns be-
fore Nov. ], and the chief enumerator must
make report To ths chairman OF the commit
tee before Dec. l. The payof the enumera.urs
is 3 cents tor each inhsb.'ant cnum-
enumeratoT is 't t. reeeivs @ l '"' cent s''s for
five persons enumerated iu his comuuty. and
persons. The chairman of the commit
certificate Of the amount due
each person employed in the work when tin
ished, and the first legislature after the adop-
ton of the constitution will make provisions
Of the report of the committee on
COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
vast deal of discussion WAS directed to the
subject of reducing the area of counties found
to be toe. large, and how it could be
done, dea ,o, and :, an,! wha. to DO with the
ern boundary of the State by division on the
forty-slxth parallel How the deb:s of
the consolidated or divided county were
to be borne WAS y question which also
entered INTO the enigma. 1t was proposed that
it be left TO d majority vote o, counties
the matter to the legislature regarding
debts Of counties divided or consolidated,
but decrease Of the area of county may be
effected by majority vote Of electors OF the
the legislature Minority representation
in the legislature occupied q great deal OF time
in debate The subject had been referred to
the legislative committee, and was reported
back without recommendation Delegates from
| the sparcely settled counties supported minority
only salvation to get representation ut all.
1t was finally decided that it was
proven a success in States where it
had been tried, aud that inasmucl as the
| .edent had been established in the out
set to incorporate no ''new wrinkles" :"
as one delegate put it, it was
defeated, and Dakota is to have no minority
representation in the legislature A. G.
Mellette, from the committee on cor
porations other than banking and muuici-
pal, submitted the unanimous report Of
patcd with more than ordiaary interest, on
account Of the effect it must have upon the
| TAXATION OF RAILROAD PROPERTY.
| The property of all corporations, except re-
ligious ard educational, is placed upon tho
| same footing so far as taxation is concerned, as
/ all GlncF properly. 1ue Gtlto cannot DeCOmo
Q stockholder i'll any corporation or assume
tho liabilities OF any corporation, nor
grant subsidies The coat Of arms and the seal
of Dakota were desgned-a shield wrapped
with the American flag, depending from tho
ground seoa Of of ." ths eagle shield 's' sss. nass
Of hills and the chimney OF smelling furnaces;
in the center of the shield river, bearing a
steamboat, on either bank Of the river a
train of cars; in tho middle fore
. field of corn; in the immediate right foro-
ground white man at his plow; in tho left
foreground an Indian and tepee. Both the
white man and Indian are looking at
rift in the clouds, where appears tho legend.
Fear God and take your own part" this
legend to be the motto of the State OF Dakota.
In adopting tho report, the boundary line
of tho State, the folty -eixth parallel was not
disputed, but the north line of the State Of
Nebraska was substituted for the Mis-
souri, river on tho south, on ac-
count of the shifting river bed.
Nebraska was accused of already attempting
to purloin an island or two which have turned
up from the everc changing channel Of the Mis-
sour out Of the territory south. Again tho
section striken out of the report on elections
and rights of suffrage giving v oman the ballot
I at elections and making them eligible to hold
Offices pertaining to school management came
| up and was passed A motion to
make women eligible to hold any office, but
vote only at school elections received 16 out Of
about 13O votes. While the subject was under
discussion, Judge Moody of tho Black Hills
delivered an ardont speech