Graham guardian., 1915-02-26
FEBRUARY &c, 1915
COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL

moving the county seat IN GranaIn
and Cochise counties is now being
agitated among the people of both
counties, with the view of securing
an election for that purpose.
In Cochise county the fight to
change the county seat from Tomb
stone to Bisbee or Douglas will be
a warm one.
In our own county the question
of moving the county seat from
Solomonville to some other town in
the valley will be the first order of
business from now on and at this
time it is hard to say just what will
be the result.
In order TO secure an election the
people must present a petition to
the board of supervisors praying for
such removal and that an election
be held to determine to what place
such removal may be made.
This petition must be signed by
qualified electors of the county
equal in number to at least 338 per
cent of all the votes cast within the
county for governor at the last pre-
ceding general election at which
governor was elected. In this case
it would mean the general election
held last November. The total
number of all the votes cast within
this county for governor at the gen.
eral election last November was
2,l3l. The number of qualified
electors that must sign this petition,
33t per cent, is Til.
Every petition must be accom-
panied by affidavits of at least two
signers thereof. stating that the
signatures are genuine and that they
were subscribed thereto within sixty
days preceding the date of such af-
fidavits, and that at the time of
signing such petition the petitioners
were qualified electors of the county.
Any number of petitions may be
SO signed, and when filed in the
Office of the board of supervisors,
thev shall be attached together and
deemed to be one petition.
When the petition is filed with the
board of supervisors. the clerk shall
issue notice to be published in a
county paper. not exceeding three
times. then the petition will be con-
sidered by the board of supervisors
at a meeting to be held at the
county seat on a date named in the
notice, at which time and place any
qualified elector Of the county may
appear in person or by counsel and
be heard.
At this meeting the board of su.
pervisors will determine which, if
any, of the signers of the petition
were not at the time of signing the
same qualified electors of the county,
and which, if any, of the signatures
thereto were not attached within
sixty days previous to the filing of
the petition, and, if more than one
petition is filed, whether the names
OF any signers are duplicated; all
such signatures will be stricken
from the petition and deducted from
the count. II the remaining sigma
lures equal 335 per cent of the votes
cast for governor at the general
election held last November, the
board of supervisors shall order that
a special election be held to deter
mine the question whether the
county seat shall be moved, and if
so, to what place it shall be moved.
This election shall be held not less
than thirty days nor more than
ninety days after the order for the
election is made.
The ballot will be of the follow.
dng form:
Shall the county seat be removed
from -----?
fes.'..'. No.,,
III the county seat be removed, to
what place?
For the county seat .........1 III
For the county seat ....... II
And so on with as many places as |
may be entitled to be printed on !
the ballot.
The name of any town in the
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