Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-12-20

surance on the mortgaged property, t.
declare the whole debt due and payabl
at once and to proceed at once to collec
the whole of the amount Of such note o
mortgage shall be deemed against pub
lie policy and void, saving to the credito
the right to collect, and for that purpos
to foreclose any mortgage for any inter
est due and unpaid or installment O
principal as it shall fall due, or for an,
monies he may have been compelled tt
advance to protect his mortgaged inter
est by payment of taxes or insurance
upon the nlortgaged property.
That any provision In any note or bono
or mortgage for the payment of the deb
widened by such note or bond or mort
gage in gold or silver shall be void, anc
any such note, bond or mortgage shall
notwithstanding such provision, be pay.
able in any money Of the United States
OF America, that shall, by the laws oi
said United States, be legal tender> at
the date of the maturity of said note, OF
bond, or mortgage, or other evidence OF
debt at the time when tender of payment
IS made.
TO establish the fees that may be
charged 10y any person or officer for FORE
closing chattel mortgage and establish
reasonable limits to same.
10 provide for more thorough notice
of sale in chattel mortgage cases, and for
the filing of chattel mortgages in the
office Of the clerk of organized townships
cities and villages instead OF With the
register of deeds; chattel mortgages on
property in unorganized townships to be
recorded with the register of deeds as
heretofore until such towns shall become
That chattel mortgage given upon
property not in existence or not owned
and possessed by the dobtor at the time
of giving the mortgage shall be void for
any purpose whatsoever
10 reduce interest on taxes after sale
of land from 30 per cent per annum, as at
present, to II per cent per annum.
70 change the time for assessment
from the first day of April for one class
Of property and the first day of May on
another class, as now provided, to the
first day February.
That every person shall be assessed
and taxed upon the equitable interest he
has in aHy property, real or personal,
whether such interest be represented by
deed, mortgage OF otherwise and for no
more. That the amount of such indebt-
edness on any mortgage be deducted
from the assessed value of the nortgaged
property and the taxpayer assessed for
the mOnied interest he actually has in
such property, after deduction of the
due on the mortgage and no
more and that all mortgagcd interests in
property In this territory be taxed in the
and towns where such mort
cages are recorded, the same as other
is required to be assessed and
taxed.
That any combination, or organization,
or association, or confederation, or trust
agreement of any kind or in any manner
or form by any persons or corporations,
with the manifest intent, design, object
or purpose, by any way or plan or device,
to hinder or delay or discourage or pre-
vent competition in the terms of condi-
tions or rate OF interest, Tor the use or
forbearance of money or in the manufac-
ture, or sale, or transportation Of any
article or commodity of any name, kind,
character or nature, made or sold or leas-
ed, or granted or conceded for the use or
convenience or support, or relief or pro.
lection, or enjoyment or amusement of
the people shall be unlawful, and that
any person or persons convicted of being
members of or party to any such combi-
nations, organization, association, con-
federation, trust or agreement, or of aid
ing or assisting or encouraging, or abet-
ting, or permitting in any way or manner.
any such combination, etc, etc, etc., shall
be deemed guilty of felony and on con-
viction thereof. shall be punished by i'm
prlsonment in the penitentiary not less
than two nor more than five years and
by fine not less than the cost of prosecu-
ton.
10 increase the power of railway COM
missioners, provide for the just and equal
taxation of railways and railroad proper
ty; provide for the receipt and discharge
Of freight and passengers at railway cros-
sings or functions. where, in the judg-
ment of the railway commissioners, the
the. convenience OF the people demand it;
to provide for the transfer of loaded cars
from one railway to another at all cros-
sings or functions when the convenience
of the public demand it and for the cost
OF snch transfer and the rates TO be
charged from point of transfer to desti-
nation; to provide for purchase or con-
demnation OF railway lands for ware
house purposes, and for equal railway
facilities to warehouses erected on such
lands.
That the fee for recording real estate
mortgages and deeds be fixed at so cents
each, for recording satisfaction of mort
cages or deeds 25 cents each: filing chat
tel mortgages 10 cents each; releasing
the same 10 cents each.
We recommend the adoption of the
Australian system holding and conduc-
ting elections.
That we recomuend to the consider
alton of the legislature the establishment
of courts of arbitration in civic cases.
The Last of the Farmers.
Thursday afternoon the following res
olutions were adopted:
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