Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-04-15

enhances she value of the farm inter
ests, diffiuses intelligence, places the far.
mers in touch with the markets and
broadens the field of usefulness and bus
mess activity. Ii is also realized that
ii is impossible to have good rural mail
service without good roads for the car
riers Good roads are essential for the
farmers to market their products and
the business interests of the towns
involved, even without the rural deliv.
cry.
AS an evidence of the appreciation OF
the action of the postoffice department,
looking to systematic business like
methods in the expenditure of the peo-
Plies money for permanent road improve
ment on established lines, and expedit-
ing II possible early action in the install
lation of rural delivery, in the event the
postoffice officials develop favorable
plans, il is proposed to aid the improve
ment Of defective roads on which the
rural routes may be plated, as set forth
in the following resolution.
Resolved; that when community or
township, by subscription, public funds
or otherwise, appropriates aud judi.
ciously expends reasonable sum for
the permanent improvement Of the
road or roads, on which rural routes are
located, then in case Of emergency, on
showing of necessity and so far as the
funds are available, the county commits.
sioners will appropriate from the county
revenues an equal sum to assist in the
improvements; that is to say. il the
local interests Of necessity expend $500
or other reasonable amount the county
will aid with equal amount. And pro-
vided always that improvements must
be for permanency on established lines
and nothing whatever shall be for tenn
porary hap-hazard work.
On motion the following resolution
was passed:
Resolution permitting the spearing, tax
ing and having in possession pickerel,
and prescribing rules and regulations
therefor.
Be it resolved; by the board of county
commissioners at this. its regular meet.
ing for the month of April, 1909, that
Whereas, Chapter 81 OF the session
laws for this state for the year 1909,
being an act regulating the preservation
of fish, provides that it shall be unlaw-
full to kill, take or have in possession
any bass, croppies. pike or pickerel dur.
ing the months of November, December,
January, February. March and April,
or either of the said months in any
year, and
Whereas; said law provides that any
counties having any natural lake exceed
ing in area three square miles, the county
of said county may. and
are hereby empowered to permit the
spearing. taking or having in possession
Of pickerel under such rules and regula-
tons as they may at their regular meet
ing provide, and
Whereas; the County of Day comes
within said class by having within its
borders several natural lakes of the
required size.
Now, therefor, we, the board of
county commissioners of the County OF
Day and the State of South Dakota do
hereby resolve, declare and prescribe
that it shall be lawful for any person to
take and to have in his possession at
any time in the year, any pickerel, pro-
vided that the same shall be over six
inches in length, and provided further,
that he shall take or kiln same by hook
and line or by spear or by shooting
Signed and dated this 9Th day of April
1909.
M. B. Long
III G.. Raffelson
@. e. Wheeler
]. s. Wyganowski