The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-25

SENATE BILL NO. 557.
AN ACT authorizing the Board of County
ulation of twenty-five thousand or
| more to sell, purchase, or exchange the
County Farm Asylum in said coun-
ty, and to build, remodel or repair the
buildings thereon.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section l. That the Board of County
Commissioners in all counties having a
population of over twenty-five thousand,
and having a County Asylum or County
Farm of the value of not more than F'if-
teen Thousand ($15,OOO) Dollars, such value
to be ascertained and determined as here
, authorizd if in their Judgment it is ad-
Visable, to sell the same for not less than
three-fourths of the appraised value
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giving thirty days notice in the official
county paper of the time, place, terms
and conditions of said sale.
Section ?. Before said sale and to de-
termine the value of said property the
ty, upon application in writing of the
Board of County Commissioners shall ap
ing upon the discharge of their duties and
within five days after notice of their ap-
pointment, shall take an oath. in sub
the constitution of the State of Kansas
and faithfully discharge their duties as
appraisers of the County Farm or Asylum
of----County, Kansas, that immedi-
ately upon taking said oath said apprai-
r sers - shall AL view said pr property and APP
the Clerk of the District Court and on
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official paper of said County, which no
tice shall state the day and hour when
said report of said commissioners will
come on for hearing before said Court
for confirmation; that if twenty-five or
twenty days after the return of the ap-
praisement hereinbefore provided for, file
tacking the Correctness of s. such appraise- apr
ment stating wherein the same is In
such tax payers, it shall be the duty of
the Court to pass upon said objections
and for that purpose the Court may hear
testimony for or against said confirmation,
and upon full hearing shall approve
said appraisement if the same is fair and
Court said appraisement is unfair then
said Court shall make a finding as to
the actual value of said property, which
finding shall be conclusive. Said hearing
may be held at Chambers.
Section 3. Where said property is sold
as provided in this act and the amount
realized from the same is less than Forty
Thousand $4,000 Dollars. the Board of
hereby authorized to raise by taxation
the amount necessary to make said fund
Dollars, said tax to be levied upon all
the taxable property both real and per-
sonal in said County. said tax may be
the Board of County Commissioners shall
deem best; said tax to be collected in the
lected
Section T. Wien the said Board of
County Commissioners shall not deem it
advisable or for the best interests of the
County to sell the said County Farm OF
Asylum but desire to build, remodel, or
repair the buildings thereon. the said
Board may have said property appraised
provided in section two of this act and
may levy a tax provided in Section
Three of this act and use said money in
building new buildings, or in improving.
remodeling or repairing the buildings now
thereon.
Section s. If said property exceed in
COO Dollars. shown by the appraise
ment hereinbefore provided for the Board
of County Commissioners of said County
shall not sell or dispose of the same with
out first submitting the question to the
vote of the electors of the County, or
if the cost expense of the improve
ments contemplated together with said
property exceed the aggregate sum of For
ty Thousand ($40,OO0 Dollars. then the
said Board of County Commissioners shall
not sell and dispose of said property or
levy a tax for said improvements with
out first submitting both said questions
to the vote of the electors of said coun-
ty.
Section g. When it shall become neces-
sary under the provisions of this act to
submit to the vote of the electors of any
county the question of selling the coun-
ty farm asylum, or the question of
said question or questions shall be sub
mitted at a general election at spe-
cial election to be called as provided in
Sections two and three of Chapter 141 of
are applicable: the same being act
titled IAN act to amend Sections 1924
1925 and 1926 of the General Statutes of
1901 pertaining to the erection of county
that each ballot shall be headed County