Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-10-22
Election Notice.


Notice is hereby given that general
election will be held in the several voting
precincts in said County of Day, state OF
South Dakota, on Tuesday, the sra DAY OF
November, A. ID. 1908, for the election OF
the following officers and to vote upon me
following proposed amendments TO the
constitution Of the State of South Dakota.
Four presidential electors.
Two congressman.
One governor.
One lieutenant governor.
One secretary OF state.
One state treasurer.
One state auditor.
One state commissioner of school and
public lands.
One state superintendent or schools.
One state attorney general.
One railroad commissioner
One state senator, 5ith di is,ntra
One county auditor.
One county treasurer.
One register of deeds.
One sheriff.
One states attorney.
One county superintendent of schools.
One clerk of courts.
One Judge of the county court
One county coroner.
One county surveyor. -, ,...
One county commissioned 5rd ulstrlCt
Four county justices OF peace
Four county constaDles.
Proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton of the State OF South Dakota. , Pc
AN ACT to Provide for the Licensing, IKE
stricting and Regulation OF the busiI ;,;t
of the Manufacture and Sale OF spirit
uous and Intoxicating Liquors. ;t 20
AN ACT Entitled an Act to submit 70
the Electors of the State of South Dakota
for Their Approval at the next GENERA,
Election under the P roxistons ., ,,d 4 rticle
8, Chapter of the Political Code, Law
Providing for an Act to Amend ShapteI
One Hundred Sixty-six of the Session
laws Of 1904, Being an Act to Amend Sec.
ton 1856 of the Revised Political Code Oh
1903, Being Section % of Chapter " OF Ses-
sion Laws OF the State of South Dakota lot
1897 Entitled an Act TO Provide for the Ii
censing, Restricting and Regulation OF the
Business of the Manufacture ana SAFE OF
SpiritnouS and Intoxicating Liquors.
Whereas under the provisions OF section
l. of Article 3, of the Constitution ana Ar
ticle 3, of Chapter2 OF the Polltlcal Ioue,
petition has been filed in the office OF the
Secretary of State, signed by more thail
five per centum of the qualified electors on
the state in the manner ana torin IheIeln
directed petitioning that the following
proposed law be enacted and submitted 10
a vote of the electors OF the state at the
next general election to be held IN the year
1905 Certified copies of said petition nav
ing been transmitted to the senate ana the
house of representatives by the secretary
of State.
State of South Dakota: -
l. That the following act be and the
same is hereby enacted and submitted to
the electors of this state at the next gener-
al election for their approval:
An act to amend chapter one hundred
being an act to amend section $3.50 of the
Revised Political Code 1903, being section rs
of chapter 72. of Session Laws OF the state
of South Dakota for 1897, entitled; An act
to provide for the licensing. restricting and
regulation of the business of the manutac-
ture and sale of spirituous and lntoxlca-
ting liquors. .
Be It enacted by the people of South Da-
i. That section one "a of chapter one
hundred Sixty-six (166) of the Session Laws
of the State of South Dakota for 1913 be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
annual municipal election held in any
township, town or city in this state tor
general municipal purposes. the question
of granting permits 10 sell Intoxicating
liquors within the corporate limits of such
township. town or city shall be submitted
to the legal voters thereof upon petition
signed by twenty-five (25) legal freeholder
voters of such township, town or city, to be
filed with the clerk or auditor of such town
ton Which petition shall state that a
vote is desired upon such question. The
question shall be submitted upon SeDar-
ate ballot conforming with the general ell
ection laws of the state, upon which ballot
there shall be printed the words: Shall
permits be granted to sell Intoxicating
1iquors?" before which words there shall be
printed the words Yes" and No" and
any voter in favor of the sale of such
liquors shall mark the word Yes" with a
cross (X), and any voter opposed to such
sale shall mark the work No" with a cross
(X), and If a majority of the voters of such
township, town or city shall vote in favor
of such sale of Intoxicating liquors the
corporate authorities shall grant permits
for such sale for the ensuing year, com
mencing on the first day of July thereafter
in accordance with the provisions OF this
act but if majority of the voters shall
not vote in favor of such sale no permits
shall be granted.
general election held in this state as pro-
vided for in section 1864 of the Revised Po-
Iitical Code of 1903, the question of whether
permits to sell Intoxicating liquors shall be
granted within the corporate limits of any
organized county, may be submitted to the
legal voters thereof upon petition signed
by not less than ten per cent. of the quail
fled electors of such county. Said petition
shall be filed with the county auditor at
least sixty days before the election and
shall state that a county vote Is desired
upon the question: Shall Intoxicating IL
quors be sold in ;,...,..;;.. Snaming the
county, County," And also that the sign
ers of said petition are legal voters OF the
county, together with their occupation and
post office addresses. 1t shall be the duty
of the county commissioners OF the county
wherein such petition has been filed to de-
ternline the sufficiency6 of such petition
and if found sufficient to order vote to be
taken upon such question. Notice OF such
vote shall be given in the same manner
and form as notice of general elections as
now provided for by law. The question
shall be submitted upon separate ballot
and said election shall be conducted in the
same manner and form as near as may be
applicable, as the same is hereinbefore
provided for the submission of said ques-
ton to the electors of township, town or
city and under the general election laws of
the state except as herein otherwise pro-
vided. If a majority OF the votes cast upon
said question at said election shall be
against the sale of Intoxicating liquors in
such county no permits for the sale of the
same shall be granted anywhere within
such county nor in any township town or
city therein from and after the first day of
July next following such election If a
tion shall be in favor of the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors within such county. then
and in that case nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to prevent said ques-
ton of selling Intoxicating liquors from
being submitted to the electors of any
township, town or city at the annual r1u-
nicipal election thereof as hereinbetore
provided for the next ensuing two years.
and annual nerrnitS may be granted i'm