The daily sentinel., 1913-01-22

An Act providing for the creation of
Herd Districts; prescribing the
method of their creation; prescrib-
ing penalties for the violation OF
the act; prescribing. civil action
Tor damages agains. dhe owners of
such animals cunning ut large;
and providing II method for taking
into custody as strays such animals
running at large.
BE II Enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Colorado:
Section. /. The board of county
commissioners of each county in the
state shall have power to create
herd districts within such county,
as hereinafter provided: and when
such district is so created. the pro-
visions of this act shall apply and be
enforceable therein,
Sec. 2. A majority of the quail
fled electors of any district, which
district may include one or more
voting precints or parts of one or
more voting precincts comprised of
compact and contiguous territory,
may petition the board of county
commissioners in writing to create
such a district IA herd district. Such
petition shall describe the boundaries
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and shall designate what animals of
the species of horses, mules. asses.
cattle swine, sheep and goats IL is de-
sired to prohibit from running at
large in such district and may des-
ignate the time of the year during
which it is desired to prohibit such
animals from running at large.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
board of county commissioners. af-
ter such petition has been filed, to
set date for hearing said petition,
notice of which hearing shall be Civ
EN- by posting notices thereof in three
places in the proposed
herd district, and by publication for
two weeks previous to said hearing
in a newspaper published in said
county nearest to the proposed herd
district
Sec 4. At such hearing If salts
fled that majority of the electors
of said proposed herd district are in
favor of the enforcement of the herd
law therein and that II would be ben
eficial to said district. the board of
county commissioners shall make an
order creating such herd district in
accordance with the prayer of the pc
tition, or with such notifications as
II may choose to make. Such order
shall specify a certain time when it
shall take effect, which time shall be
at least thirty days after making
such order; and such order shall
continue in force, according to the
terms thereof. until the same shall
be vacated or modified by the board
of commissioners, upon the petition
of the majority of the electors of
said district.
Sec. 5. Whenever one hundred or
more qualified voters of a county file
a petition for such purposes as allow
ed in Section 2 of this act with the
board of county commissioners of
any county within this state at least
sixty days before any general cleo
ton, praying that the question of ere
ating a herd district of the entire
be submitted to a vote of
the qualified electors of said county.
the board of county commissioners
of said county shall submit such
question to said electors at the next
general election, and If
of the electors voting there
on approve the same, then the board
of county commissioners shall pro-
ceed at once to make an order ere
ating such herd district of the coun-
ty. All persons voting upon the
aforesaid question shall vote by sep
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