The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-28
Will Try To Stop
Court House Building

'NSNNiNos il'li NS'. IL Lttll~
mon, as chairman of the board of
county commissioners was the
first to be honored with temper
ary injunction against proceed
ing to receive and consider bids
for the construction of additions
to the court house and Jail at BIZ
son, and against their aN arding
any contract for the construction
of such additions.
The inJuction was secured from
Judge j. H. Bottom, and is dated
Faulkton. Feb. Gath. Deputy
Nesbitt is now on his way south
to serve copies of the injunction
on the other four members of the
board
The plaintiffs in the case are
three farmers of Perkins county.
THESE are representative of a
large number of country residents
who are decidedly wrathy at the
condition of affairs tnat promises
wholesale lot of expense in
county building Improvement at
Bison. Tne great majority who
voted for Bison for county seat,
did SO in the firm belief that
nothing would be done to cause
expense in the line of building,
and the efforts now being made
/ by the commissioners, to enlarge
the court house, are meeting with
decided opposition.
The complaint of the plaintiffs
is lengthy but interesting recit.
al Of the reasons they adduce tol
their demand. Under caption
they charge that the matter OF
making the expenditure has
never been submitted to a vote
of the people. In caption s they
allege that no tax has ever beer
levied to provide for the construc.
ton of the additions. and that
there is no county building fund
from which to make payment,
Sections 9, 10 and II present
the crux of the difficulty. They
are as follows:
9. Plaintiffs further allege that NJ
part Of the amount required to con
struct the buildings and addition
specified in said notice can be palC
out OF the annual revenue OF Salt
County Of Perkins for The Year l9lJ
and that in order 10 pay the amour
required to construct such addition.
il will be necessary to create an IN
ut NtPHntss dgdiuSt Sdth D'h''9 ~
Perkins contrary to the law, aut
statutes OF the State Of South Dakota
10, piainti9 IS further allcge that ih'
tax levied in said County Of Iorkn
for the annual expenses OF the veal
1913. not including the constructor
of additions to said Court House auf
,ail. il (S11.4l6.o5l Seventeen Thou
sand. Four Hundred Forty siE !
o. 100, and that the estimated eE
pepse to be paid out of said tax, 30
including the construction OF addition
to sand Court House and jail Is IN
sum of Seventeen thousand, ST,
Hundred Dollars lI,too.
H. Plaintiff further alleges tha
there are outstanding and unpan
, county warrants against the genera
fund OF said County of Perkn
amounting to over Sixty Thousand
s6o. 900 Dollars, and that the lnteres
on said warrants amounts at TINS tim
IN over Five Thousand $4,000, 10
llars. and is unpaid That the annnd
,avenne of Perkins County for tn
lvear 1913 is not large enough to pa
any of the outstanding warrant, a.
aims. said general fund, and that n
! said County is at the present time an
viii he on the first day of March, III
and thereafter, owing larger amour
of money on unpaid county warrant
[ than one wears revenue from ed'
e County from jall sources and thi
! tbera i now and will he during Il
: wear 1918, no money IN Inc 'edsnt
NJ Sajd County. out OF which the an
ount REQUIRED to construct said add
e tions can be paid And that the dh
ount so required to be paid would ef
{ ate an indebtedness that Perkins -
could not possibly meet during u
year 1915
: The excavations for the coul
house addition have already bee
made, and it goes without savin
;,;unction will str U