Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-01-27

until such future time as we can secure
funds and return to them.
We, therefore, petition your Honor
able Board to secure for us seed grains
as is provided for in Section /, of Chap
ter 225, of the Session Laws Of the State
Of South Dakota, for the year 1911.
We hereby append our names together
with the number of acres and the varie-
ties of seeds to plant or SOW.
Name. Acres. S. Tp. R. Oats, Barley,
| Potatoes.
The statute under which the Commits
sioners may get this seed provides:
I'm any county of the State where the
crops for the preceding year have been
a total or partial failure by reason Of
drouth, hail or other cause 1t shall be
lawful for the Board of County Commits
sioners of such county to issue the bonds
of the county under and pursuant to
the provisions Of this Act, and with the
proceeds derived from the sale thereof,
to purchase seed. grain for the inhabit-
ants thereof who are in need of seed
grain and are unable to procure the
same, whenever said Board shall be
petitioned 80 to do, by not less than 90
freeholders, resident in the county, pro-
vided, that all such petitions shall be
fled with the county auditor, on or be-
fore the 18th day of March each year.
"Not more than 100 bushels of wheat
or it's equivalent in any grain shall be
furnished to any one person.
"All persons entitled to and wishing
to avail themselves of the benefit of this
Act shall file with the county auditor OF
The county where such applicant resides,
on or before the lst day of April an ap-
plication duly sworn to before said audi
tor, or some other officer authorized to
administer oaths. Said application shall
contain true statement of the number
of acres applicant has plowed or pre-
pared for seeding; how many acres ap-
plicant intends to have plowed and pre-
pared for seeding; how many bushels
and what kind of grain he will require
to seed the ground 30 prepared as afore-
said.
Applicant shall sign a contract in
duplicate, attested by the county audi
tor, to the effect that said applicant for
and in consideration bushels
of seed grain received from
county, promises to pay said county
dollars, the amount of
the cost Of said seed grain with interest
thereon at seven per cent until paid /;
interest paid annually; that the indebt-
edness shall become due and payable
on the first day of October in the year
in which the seed grain is furnished, to-
gether with interest on such amount
from the date of said contract, at the
rate of seven per cent per annum, pay
able annually. And If said indebted.
ness be not paid on or before the 10th
day of October of that year, it shall then
be the duty of the county auditor of
said county to cause the amount of said
Indebtedness to be entered upon the tax
list of said county for that year as the
tax on the land on which said seed grain
was sown and upon any other land OF
the applicant, to be collected as other
taxes are, and the same so levied and
entered shall be lien upon the real
estate owned by said persons until said
Indebtedness is paid, when it shall be
the duty of the proper officer to cancel
the same. Provided that the Board OF
County Commissioners of any county is
hereby authorized to take such other
and further security for seed grain 30
furnished upon any real or personal
property Of the applicant, and if any
security other than that above provided
is by them taken, then debt for such
seed grain shall not be taxed against
the land by the county auditor.
"Upon the filing of the contracts pro-
vided for in the above paragraph, the
county shall require just and valid
lien upon each and every government
subdivision of land upon which said
grain was contracted to be sown and
upon the crop of grain raised from said
seed by the person receiving seed grain
to the amount of the sum then due to
the county upon said contract, as against
all creditors, purchasers or mortgages,
whether in good faith or otherwise, and
the filing of said contract shall be held
and considered to be full and sufficient
notice to all parties of the existence and
extent of said lien, which shall continue
in force until the amount covered by
said contract is fully paid.
each and every person who has re.
ceived seed grain under the provisions
Of this Act, shall as soon as all his crops
are harvested and threshed, market q
sufficient amount of grain to pay the
amount then due on his contract and