The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Board Authorizes StPandburg to Vote
on Incorporating also County to
Vote on Court House.
July Is, 1914.

vote ON court House,
July Is, 1914.
In the matter Of change of polling
places in Adams Township Election,
precinct, OF motion, the following
resolution was passed:
Protest having been filed against
the changing Of the voting place in
Adams Township Election precinct to
the Town Hall in Revillo, and it ap-
pearing from the records that Revillo
is an established election precinct un-
der the law an elector must vote with
in his voting precinct:
Therefor the voters Of Adams Town
ship Election Precinct could not by
vote fix the place of voting at q place
outside of its voting precinct and in
another precinct, and the voting place
OF Adams Township must remain at
Albee until legally changed to a place
Q within another election precinct.
Therefor resolved, that Albee,
South Dakota, shall remain the place
where all elections in Adams Town
ship Election Precincts shall be held.
In the matter of the Incorporation
of the Town of Strandburg, Grant
County, South Dakota.
A petition for Incorporating the
town of Strandburg was presented the
board and the board ordered an cleo
ton on the qestion of Incorporation,
the election to take place on August /.
On motion, the following resolution
was passed:
Whereas: Petitions have been filed
signed by j. "A. Cola and others, legal
voters and residents of Grant County,
South Dakota, praying for the con-
structlon OF a new Court House for
SAID county and,
Whereas. said petitioners ask the
Board OF County Commissioners of
SAID county 10 submit to the voters of
said county the proposition OF issuing
bonds tor the complete construction
of Il new Court House at the county
seat OF said county upon a provided
site therefor at the neNt general cleo
ton TO tie held in SAID county, Noyem-
Der 3rd. 1914, and,
Whereas. in the Judgment OF all
AID a majority OF the Board OF Coun-
ty commissioners of SAID Grant Coun-
~, a county has an insufficient and
inadequate building for a Court House
IN this thai the same Is not large
enough TO properly care or the pub
lie records, and is unsafe by reason
OF extraordinary S k Of fire, and
that legal grounds exist for ordering
a bond election upon said question,
and the amount of said bonds shall
not exceed the sum of SIS, 1000. 90, and,
That the interest rate thereon shall
not exceed ~ per cen per annum
payable semi annually in denomina-
tions OF 81 900. 90 each, and,
Whereas said county has more than
five hundred voters and has been or
for more than four years and
the county seat has been permanently
at the City of Milbank accord.
ing to law, and,
Whereas said county has not sufii-
cient funds on hand with which to
erect such building, and in order to
said building it will be nee
essary for the county to borrow money
by issuing bonds therefor, and,
Whereas the assessed valuation of
said county for the year OF 1913 was
$23, S25, 27O. 90, and,
Whereas there is now in the sinking
fund of said county a sufficient sum
of money to pay all outstanding in
debtedness and bonds of said county
the same becomes due, and,
Whereas said petitions and the pro-
prosition of submitting to the voters
of said county the question Of issuing
bonds was considered at the regular
July meeting. 1914, of the Board OF
County Commissioners,
Therefor, be 1t resolved, that an
election for the purpose Of determin-
ing by the vote of electors of said
Grant County the proposition Of is
suing its negotiable bonds not to X
coed the sum of S75, 10000 in denomi-
nations Of 81, COO. 10 each bearing in
terest from date of their issue at the
rate not to exceed AZ per cent per an
mum payable semi-annually to become
due in not less than five years or more
than twenty years from their date for
the purpose OF the erection Of a new
Court House for said Grant County
and that the proposition OF issuing
bonds not to exceed the sum OF 49,
QUO. 10 at the rate OF interest and in
the denominations above stated be
at the next general election
the year 1914 and that the vote be
had at the time and place Of said gen
eral election and at the usual voting
places and thai returns thereof be
duly made TO the County Auditor in
the manner provided by law, and that
the County Auditor shall give notice
Of said election for the issuing Of
bonds aforesaid as provided by law,
and that said e court house be erec-
ted and built at the county seal of
said county.
Be it further resolved. that the
County Auditor shall give notice Of
election as provided by law and
shall state the maximum amount Of
bonds to be issued and the purpose
for which they are issued.
Dated July 18th, 1914
George Mitchell, Chairman
John Maxwell
Win. Lindgren
On motion, the election precincts
places of Grant County. were
established for the general election to
be held November 3rd, 1914, viz;
The usual election precincts, and
the usual polling place or places
therein, except Vernon Township cleo.
ton precinct, which polling place
shall be the School House in School
District No. S.