The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-02-22
ATTENTION FARMERs.
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 it Enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
SECTION l. 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 apportionment, which warrants
shall have priority over all other out
standing warrants, and shall mature
February 1st, 1896.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be 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 ut 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 commls-
sioners, that lie or she is the head of
family, the amount and kind of seed
needed, and such application shall
show the number of acres the appIi-
cant has i'll cultivation, the amount,
the kind of seed, if any, he has on
hand, 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
| mlsslOnerS, all to be verified by the
| applicant and by two disinterestea
witnesses who shall be known to some
member of the board of county COM
mlssioners. No. person shall 1ecleve
seed who has not been a 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 is
otherwise able to procure seed, and
not more than twenty dollars worth of
seed shall he furnished to any one apli-
cant.
SEC. 5. The county commissioners
shall take from each applicant for seed
an obligation for the cost of the seed
furnished to such applicant; said obli-
CATION to become due and payable on
or before November 1, 1895, and 10
bear interest at the rate of per cent
per annum after maturity, to contain
Il description of the land on which the
seed is to be sOwn and statement of
the interest of the applicant in such
land, a copy of which shall be filed in
the cffice of the registes of deeds, and
shall thereupOn become first lien OH
the crop grown from such seed, and
the cost of such fling shall he added
to the obligation. The form Of such
obligation shall be provided 10y the
railroad commissioners: the county
commissioners shall collect such obi.
gaticn and Immediately transmit such
collections to the state treasurer, who
shall indOrse the same upon the proper
county warrants.