Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-10-29
Election Notice.

Election Notice.
Notice is hereby given that a general
election will be held in the several voting
precincts in said County of Day, State OF
South Dakota, on Tuesday, the 3rd day OF
November, "A. ID. 1905, for the election or
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
One state superintendent of schools.
One state attorney general.
One railroad commissioner,
One state senator, 3ith district
Four members of the Legislature.
One county audftor'
One county treasurer
One egister OF deeds.
One sheriff,
One states attorney.
One county superintendent Oh SCHOOLS
One clerk of courts.
One Judge of the county court.
One county coroner.
One county surveyor.
One county commissioner, Bird district
Four county justices of peace.
Four county constables.
Proposed amendments to the constltu-
tion of the State of South Dakota.
AN ACT to Provide for the Licensing, Re
stricting and Regulation OF the Business
of the Manufacture and Sale of Spirit
uous and Intoxicating Liquors.
AN ACT Entitled an Act to Submit to
the Electors of the State of South Dakota
for Their Approval at the next General
Election under the Provisions of Section
of Article of the Constitution, and Article
g. Chapter 2 of the Political Code. Law
Providing for an Act to Amend Chapter
One Hundred Sixty-six of the Session
Laws of 1903 Being an Act to Amend Sec
ton 2S56 of the REVISED Political Code OF
1903 Being Section % of Chapter u of Ses-
sion Laws of the State of South Dakota for
1897, Entitled an Act to Provide for the Ii
censing, Restricting and Regulation OF the
Business of the Manufacture and sale OF
Spiritnous and Intoxicating Liquors
/. of Article 3 of the Constitution and Ar
ticle 3, of Chapter2, of the POLITICAL Code,
petition has been filed in the office OF the
Secretary of State, signed by more than
five per Centum of the qualified electors of
the state in the manner and form therein
directed, pehtioning that the following
proposed law be enacted and submitted to
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 and 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
sixty-six (166) of the Session Laws of 1903
being an act to amend section 1856 of the
Revised Political Code 1903 being section q
of chapter Y, of Session Laws of the State
of South Dakota for 1885,! entitled; An act
to provide for the licensing, restricting and
regulation of the business OF the manutac-
ture and sale of spirituous and intoxica-
ting liquors.
Be It enacted by the people of South Da-
kota:
/. That section one "a of chapter one
hundred sixty-six C166) of the Session Laws
of the State of South Dakota for 1903 be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows;
Chapter I66, Session Laws 1907 At the
annual municipal election held in any
township, town or city in this state for
general municipal PURPOSES the question
of granting permits to sell Intoxicating
liquors within the corporate limits of Such
township. town or city shall be SubmittCI
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
ship, town or city thirty days before cleo
ton. Which petition shall state that "a
vote is desired upon such question. The
question shall be submitted upon separ-
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
lquorS?" 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 (hl, and any voter opposed TO such
sale shall mark the work No" with cross
(\), and III 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 a majority of the voters shall
not vote in favor of such sale no permits
shall be granted.
Provided, however, that at any regular
general election held in this state as pro-
Nided for in section 1864 of the Revised Po-
TitiCal 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 questions Shall Intoxicating Ii
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
termine the sufficiency of such petition
and If found sufficient to order a 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 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. LII
majority of the votes cast upon said ques-
ton shall be in favor of the sale of intoXi-
eating liquors within such county, then
and in that case nothing in this act shall
he so construed as TO prevent said ques-
ton of selling Intoxicating liquors from
being submitted to the electors of any
township town or city mt the annual mu-
nicipal election thereof as hereinbefore
provided, for the next ensuing two years,