The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-08-24
County Seat Case.
As Presented by the Pembina
Committee.

We, the undersigned Taxpayers and
qualified electors Of the county vi
Pembina and state Of North Dakota,
respectfully beg leave to demonstrate
except and protest against the petit
tiOn for the removal and reloca tl0n OF
the county seat OF this county, filct
in the Office Of the county auditor d
said county, Aug. 9Th, 1894, and VT
respectfully ask your honorable body
to disallow aud reject said petitiu,
for the following reasons:
FIRST. That said petition does no
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honorable board, to DO or to represen
the true signatures Of two-thiris O
the electors Of said county, which
number 1t must represent accordin,
to the statute, or be rejected by tbl.
honorable board.
SECOND. That said petitio.,ru
have not in any manner by affidavit,
or proof attempted to fix the tpta
number Of electors in this said count,
of Pcmbina, as we believe it wa.
their duty to do before this HONORABLE.
board. That said petitioners not hav.
Ing furnished said proof. aud In any
case, it. is your duty to take cogniz.
aace Of the puolic records filed in the
office Of your county auditor, and to
use all other legitimate ulealis to us.
certain the true and total number of
electors, now residing IN the said
county Of Pcmbina.
THIRD. That among such records
arc the poll books containing the
names of each and every voter ut the
November election Of 1899, attcsLed
by the election boards, also the list Of
electors subject to school poll tax, rs
returned by the assessors for the cur.
rent year and passed on by your hon
prablc board, while sitting as Goard
of equalization, during the month Of
July in this year; also The names pre-.
sented by the said petitioners, u large
per ccntagc Of which are neither On
the poll books as voters in 1892, nor
on the assessment roll as electors,
subject to poll-tax on the tax lists Of
the current year, and which your re-
monstrants claim should either BIZ
added to the assessed list of electors
subject to SCHOOL poll and thus iu-
creasc the aggregate number Of cleo
tors, or else said names of unasscssed
should be stricken from
said petition. US it would bc mani
testify unfair to consider them as cleo
tors adding to the number on the
and refuse to add them to
the aggregate number on the assess:
ment roll. AS to the number Of such
new names not on the assessment
roll Of the current year, rcmonstrants
would call your attention to Exhibit
"a" attached and made u part OF
this rem0nstrance. AS to the value
Of the assessment roll and poll books
~ herein referred to, your rcmon.
STRANGE would refer you to Exhibit
3D." which is hereto attached and
made part Of this remOnstrance.
FOURTH. That the time allowed
by your honorable board has not been
sufficient to allow your remonstrants
to fully compare said petition with
said poll books and assessment rolls,
or to take a census Of the county TO
ascertain the tp4o number Ut voters
having been limited to ten
working :days, exclusive Of Sundays
and the day Of hearing and that said
time, though 'saie rcmonstrants
have used the utmost diligence, has
proven utterly inadequate to submit
remonstranccs to any but q small
proportion of the signers Of said petit
tion.
FIFTH. That Of the signatures t9|
said petition, a large number appear
by the writing not to be true and
original signatures Of the persons
thereon named, that certain names
appear on different sheets and in diff
ferent townships on said petition,
that certain other names were not
signed;by the person himself and that
the person verifying said petition was