The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-03-01
ATTENTION FARMERS,
AN ACT

AN ACT
To provide seed for the needy farmers
of parts of the Sixth, Seventh and
Fourth Congressional Districts, and
to make appropriation therefor.
BE 1t Enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Kansas:
SECTION /. The state board of rail-
road commissioners shall notify
the county commissioners of the
amount to which their several counties
are entitled under this act. The COM
mlssioners shall thereupon forthwith
transmit to the board of railroad COM
missioners the county warrant of their
respective counties, payable to the
treasure of the state, for the amount
OF such pportionment, which warrants
shall have priority over all other out
standing warrants, and shall mature
February 1st, 1895.
SEC. 2. 1t shall lie the duty of the
commissioners of the several counties
to make requisition upon the board of
railroad commissioners for the quality
and kinds of seed required, not exceed
ing i'll value their prOportionate amount.
SEC. 3. The county commissioners
of the several counties shall receive
said seed, and shall give at least ten
days notice i'll the official paper of
their respective counties, setting forth
| the time when and the place where
| they shall distribute SAID seed
SEC. 4. Every applicant for seed
shall be required to state in writing,
on blanks which shall be furdished by
the state board of railroad comm1s-
sioners, that he or she is the head of
"a family, the amount and kind of seed
needed, and such application shall
show the number of acres the appli-
cant has in cultivation, the amount,
the kind of seed, if any, he has on
hand, a list Of his farming implements,
the number and kinds of teams owned
by him, the length of time he has
resided in the county and state, and
such other information as may be
required by the board of railroad com
missioners, all to be verified by the
applicant and by two disinterested
witnesses who shall he known to some
member of the board of county com.
| missiOners. No person shall 1eclevt
! seed who has not been resident OF
the state for the year last past, and
WHO has not lost his crop of 1894 by
reason of the drought, and who il
otherwise able to procure seed, ant
not more than twenty dollars worth O
seed shall be furnished to any one apli
2 cant.
| SEC. 5. The county commissioner
| shall take from each applicant for seet
e ;:n obligation for the cost of the see,
furnished to such applicant; said obi
CATION to become due aud payable o.
S or before November 1, 1895, and +
e bear interest at the rate of per cen
a per annum after maturity, to contai
e a description of the land on which til
: seed is to be sown and a statement c
S the interest of the applicant in sue
t land, a copy Of which shall be filed
l. the ofiice OF the registes of deeds, an
e shall thereupon become first lien o
J.. the crop grown from such seed, an
y the cost of snch filing shall be adde
al to the obligation. The form IF sue
l. obligation shall be provided by IL
te railroad commissioners: tie count
is commissioners shall collect such obi
+. gaticn and Immediately transmit Sic
collections.to the state treasurer, wi
shall indorse the same upon the prop
te ounty warrants.