Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-10-12
That so-Cnlicd s.Bond.,,

1t is the sole claim of the three Win
chester property owners who have pooled
their issues and temporarily dropped their
personal antagonisms that "it will he no
expense to the taxpayers" OF course
they neglect to state that "it will be no
expense to the taxpayers" to leave the
county seat where it is, and where the
county can have the jail building rent
free until such time as the scat of govern
ment shall be removed to some pcrma-
nent point But last week the RECORD
published the laws on the subject, which
show. first, that county board may
use the yearly revenues for Jail building
purposes; and, second that the board
SHALL provide prison. This effcctuaHy
disposed of the assertion of the on. wheels
advocates - Mcssrs. Parker, Bumstead
and Wadc-that the county don't need a
Jail. and that the one they now own
can be abandoned without loss. We re-
publish the laws for the benefit of any
reader who may have overlooked them
last week:
Section 6O7. Said board shall have authority
and power, under the provisions OF this chapter,
to provide for the erection and repairing OF
court-houses jais, and other necessary build
ings within and for tile county, and to make con.
tracts OIL beinlf Of the county for the building or
repairing Of the same; but no expenditure for
paid out Of the rcutnue Of the county for the cur
rent year shall be made unless the question of
such expenditure shall have first been submitted
TO vote Of the qualified voters of such county,
and shall have been approved by lnajorty of
the votes 80 cast; and the board shall deter
inine the amount and rate of taxes to be sub
mitted to a vote for such purpose.
Section 1870. There shall be established and
kept in every county, by authority Of the board
Of county commissioners and at the expense Of
the county, prison for the safe keeping OF pris-
oners lawfully committed.
Another effort made by the removers to
hoodwlnk the taxpayers into the belief
that the comfy scat can be removed to
Winchester without expense" is out.
lined by Sheriff Wade IN an article IN last
weeks Winona Times. Mr.. Wade says
that ''cltizens of Winchester" have given
bond that they will give block of lots
to the county free Of charge, and an
other bond that they will remove the
safe, records, etc, to Wade's tumble
down shack without money and without
price. The language of the so-called
bond, or the names of the signers thereto.
public. Mr.. Wade did present paper of
some kind to the county board at its re.
cent meeting, but what it is no one can
find out. The sheriff wanted the fact of
its presentation put upon the minutes,
in order that he might use 1T rs part of
his campaign thunder; but the commls.
sioncrs, very properly, objected. It. is
sealed and filed, and no one can learn its
provisions, save as interpreted by Will
lam V. 1t may be all that he claims.
For the sake OF argument grant it. But
what of it? There is nothing in the ma.
turc Of contract existing to compel the
carrying out of the alleged offer That
Wade and Bumstcad would seek to break
their promise in the matter no one has
right to say but. legally, it is only
promise. Not line of its provisions
could be enforced if, AFTER the election.
its givers saw fit to repudiate it, Ask any
lawyer in this county or in Bismarck If
this Is not true. However, the signers of
the so called bond" will never be called
upon to make its provisions good. The
county. jail building makes very good
abode for the county offices. The county
new has nothing to pay for office rent,
and charitably disposed citizens will not
be called upon to furnish quarters.
Who Is at the bottom Of the scheme vi
are unable to learn, as they seem to bo
working ION the 1uietj' and we are not
surprised at 1t, for no man would openly
esponse such q cause at this time unless
he was lunatlc or had no business ronn.
tatiOn to sustain.-Winona Tlmea,