The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-02-25
COUNTIES AUTHORIZED TO
AID WITH FREE SEED.
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all the real and personal property Of
said applicant; that such tax shall
be levied by the county and collect
cd under the laws of this state;
that the amount OF such indebted
ness shall become due and payable
on the first day of October in the
year in which said seed grain is fur
nished together with the interest en-
such amount from the first day Of
April OF that year. at the rate of
six per cent per annum,, and ii said
indebtedness be not paid on or be-
tore the twentieth day of October
OF that year, it shall then be the
duty OF the county auditor, or coun-
ty clerk, OF the said county, to
cause the amount of said indebted
ness to be entered upon the tax lists
OF said county for that year, as a
TAX on the land on which said seed
wheat was sOwn, and upon any
other land owned by the applicant !,
to be collected as other taxes are
and the sum so entered and levied
shall be a lien upon the real estate
owned by said person until said in
debtedness is fully paid, when it
shall be the duty of the proper Off
GERS to cancel the same.
Section Il. Upon the filing of
the contracts provided for in section
ten, the county shall acquire just
and valid lien upon the crops Of
grain raised each year by the per-
son 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
contract shall be held and consider
ed to be full and sufficient notice to
all parties OF the existence and eX-
tent OF sand lien, which shall con-
unue in force until the amount COW
cred by said contract is fully paid.
Section Is. Each and every per-
son who has received seed grain
under the provisions Of this act,
as soon as his crops for the Year
wherein payment is TO be made, are
harvested and threshed, market a
sufficient amount OF grain to pay
tn - n
and pay the same over to the treas
urer OF the county.
Section IA. Any person or per-
sons who shall contrary to the pro-
visions Of this act, sell, transfer
rake or carry away, or in any man.
ner dispose Of the said grain, or
any part thereof. furnished by the
county under this act, Or shall use
or dispose OF said seed grain, or
amy pare thereof, tor any other pur-
pose than that OF planting Or SOW
1ng the same as stated in his appli-
cation, or shall sell. transfer, take
or carry away. CT in any manner
dispose OF the crop, or any part
thereof, produced from the sowing
or planting OF said seed grain, shall
De guilty OF misdemeanor and
upon the conviction thereof shall
pay a fine OF not less than ten dol
nrs, nor more than one hundred
dollars, or may be imprisoned in
the county Jail for a term of not
more than ninety days, and shall
pay all the costs OF prosecution, and
whoever under any OF the provls-
ions herein shall be found guilty of
talse swearing shall be deemed to
nave committed perjury and shall,
Hing OF said application in the Of
tice OF the clerk and recorder and
the sowing OF the seed obtained
hereunder the title and right OF
possession to the growing crop and
10 the grain produced from said
seed shall be in the county which
shall have furnished the seed until
the debt incurred for said seed shall
nave been paid and any seizure
thereof. or interference Herewith,
Except by the applicant and those in
his employ for the purpose OF 'har-
vestlng, tnreshing and marketing
the same to pay the DEBT aforesaid,
shall be deemed a conversion there
or. and treble damages may be re-
covered against the person so con-
yerting the same by the county fur
nlshing the seed.
Section Is 1t shah be the duty