Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-03-14
MEADE COUNTY.

mERUE GOUNIY.
Below we give synopsis of the Meade
county bill as passed by the Legislature
just adjourned. The ADVERTISER would
give the bill complete if our space were
not SO limited.
Section 1 says: That all that por-
ton of the county Of Lawrence in the
territory OF Dakota, bounded and des-
cribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at
point on the southern boundary line of
of said Lawrence county where the range
line between ranges 5 and 6 intersects
said boundary line, thence north along
the range line between ranges and
to the line between townships 8 and A;
thence along said last mentioned town
ship line to the range line between
ranges and s; thence north along said
range line between ranges and 5 to the
northern boundary line of Lawrence
county to the one hundred and third me-
ridian to point where said meridian
intersects with the channel of the north
fork of the Cheyenne or Belle Fourche
river; thence southeasterly along down
said north fork of the Cheyenne or Belle
Fourche river on the line of great Sioux
reservation 10 its confluence with the
south fork of the big Cheyenne river;
thence up said fork of the big Cheyenne
river along the line of the great Sioux
reservation to point where it intersects
with the boundary line of Pennington
county; thence west aloug the boundary
lines of Pennington and Lawrence
counties to the place of beginning, be,
and the same is hereby erected into a
county by the name OF Meade, and the
territory included within such boundaries
shall be and constitute the county of
Meade.
Section 2 names the commissioners,
viz: Max Hoehn, Daniel P. Flood and
w. G. Burton.
Section says the commissioners
shall meet on or before the first Monday
of April, 1889, in Sturgis and shall
qualify by taking oath to faithfully per-
form their duties as such Appendices
under this act and shall then enter upon
their duties. They shall issue a notice
of election one of said notices at least to
be posted in every precinct of the county
as they are established by the commiss-
toner's and also publish the same in each
newspaper in the county at least 20 days
before said election. The commissioners
are also to appoint judges Of election.
Section places the election on the
7th day of May, 1889, at which all
county officers shall be elected, including
three commissioners, which officers hay
ing qualified shall hold their offices until
the first general election, thereafter, and
until their successors shall be elected
and have qualified. The section also
says that at the same election the elect
ors are empowered to vote for and select
the place Of county seat, the place re-
oeiving the highest number OF votes shall
be the county seat, until otherwise
changed by law.
According to section 5 the commiss-
toner's shall meet in Sturgis on the 18th
day of May and canvass the returns and
declare the result, and the commissioners
shall, after the canvass, issue procla-
nation announcing who are elected and
what place has been chosen tho county
seat
Section 6 names the first Monday in
June after said election as tho day on
which the newly elected officers shall
quality and enter upon their duties
Section 10 provides that all justices
IF the peace and constables in office
within the county of Meade shall con
,inue in office as such for Meade county
until their terms expire, and they shall
give a new bond to the new county in
he same amount and manner as given to |
he county of Lawrence.
Section Is says Meade county shall
Day just proportion of Lawrence
,ounty's indebtedness based upon the
assessed valuation Of said Lawrence
county for 1883, and upon the proper
ion that the valuation within the county |
# Meade bears by the assessment OF
1888 to the valuation Of the whole Of
lawrence county. The commissioners
i both counties to meet in Deadwood on
be first day Of July and settle the pro-
,ortion.
Section 25 says the authority of Law
ence county for the collection of revenue
Vithin the limits of Meade shall cease on
fuly LIST, 1889, and all assessments and
ewes made by the authority Of Law
ence county affecting any of the terri
DRY embraced ID Meade county shall be
,ayable to and coliectible by the author