The Dickinson press., 1896-01-11
Village Incorporation.

n large number of resident proper.
ty owners are in favor of some Or
ganization for Dickinson that will
give us better protection against fire,
better SAINT Try arrangements and a
rank among the best towns and cities
of the state. The great objections to
organization heretofore have been the.
great and largely needless cost OF a
city government and the power it
would give nonresident property
owners and citizens who held little or
no property to enact measures con-
trary to the will of those who held
property and were permanent resi-.
dents. A perusal of chapter 90 of
the new code relating to the incor-
poration of villages, will show that
the objections heretofore raised in
Dickinson are done away with by the
new law. Some of the provisions of
the new law are: Il survey and map
of the territory to he Incorporated
must he made and a census taken;
not less than one-third of the quail.
iticd voters must sign the petition for
Incorporation; after u hearing by the
commissioners. a meeting is appoint.
ed for voting yes or no on the ques.
| tion and Il majority rules; the village
must be divided into three and may
not have more than seven districts;
the officers shall lie. u trustee from
each district. clerk, assessor, treas.
urer, marshal and justice of the
peace, but the office of clerk, treas.
urer, assessor and marshal may be
held by one and the same person;
| f1o 1NNnr1 Of frpctnno h,Ac n,on,~ 0kl1
ers, the power to organize and regu.
late the government of fire and. hook
and ladder companies and procure
apparatus, to regulate the storage of
gunpowder, to direct the construc.
ton of Il safe deposit for ashes and
otherwise protect the town against
fire, to take necessary steps to pre-
serve the public health, to restrain
cattle, ETC.. fIom running ut large.
to restrain and prohibit vice of every
kind, to impose and~collect fines, to
attend to streets. to levy and collect
taxes. etc; the annual tax shall not
exceed fifty cents on il hundred dol.
lars OF the valuation and twenty-five
cents poll tax on all property subject
by law to taxation; no village shall
have power to borrow money or in.
cur any debt or liability unless the
citizen owners of fvc-cighths of the
taxable property petition the trust.
ees to that effect; whenever two.
thirds OF the resident owners in num-
Der or value of real estate bounding
both sides of IL street, nos less than
one square, petition to have it grad.
ed, paved OF to have sidewalks built
or repaired. II when two.lllirls on
one side the street petition the trus-
tees for Sidewalks. the same shall he
done and a levy made upon the per
sons owning the property Oh said
street, but nO real estate shall be
taxed for imprOveme nts made far.
Their from the front of said property
than one.llalf the distance across
said street,
Lack of space prevents our giving
further details. 1t will readily b.
seen, however, that expense is KEEP
alta minimum while ut the same tim,
the board of trustees is given power
to do the things Dickinson so mucl
needs to have done; and that while
the board has power to make extend
ed improvements at the request AM
expense OF two.thirds of the residen
property owners, it cannot max
them without such request and Can
not incur debt without the sanction
of these same citizen property owl
ers. We hope the people will Civ
this matter careful consideration an,
I've prepared to take action toward in
corporation under this chapter at a
early day.