Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-04-15
REACH AGREEMENT
Joint Session Of Boards of County Com
missioners of Custer and Pen
nington Counties.

By agreement the boards of county
commissioners Of Custer and Penning-
ton counties held a joint meeting at Ho
! Springs last Monday, for the considera.
ton Of ways and means to arrange for a
settlement OF the boundary line between
| the two counties for taxation purposes.
/ This matter has been a source OF trouble
to the auditors of both counties, and the
settlement reached will undoubtedly
settle great deal of trouble and save
| considerable expense to the two coun-
ties After a full and exhausted dis
cussion on the subject the following
resolution was offered and accepted
unanimously by the joint session
Whereas, the south boundary of the
County of Pennington and the north
boundary of the County of Custer are in
dispute; and
Whereas, it will require survey of
said line to establish definitely and cor
rectly the boundary between the said
Counties, and said survey would cost
approximately Fifteen Hundred Dollars
and for the results obtained would be an
unnecessary expense and
Whereas, Pennington county has for
some years past been assessing taxing
and collecting the taxes on portion of
the property in the disputed territory
and
Whereas, the County of Custer has
run on its assessment books all the
property in said disputed territory !
and
Whereas, great inconvenience and
difficulty is incurred by the residents Of
said disputed territory by reason of
double assessment; and taxation on
their property.
Be 1t Therefore Resolved, by the
Boards Of County Commissioners of the !
Counties Of Pennington and Custer in |
joint session, held at Hot Springs, South |
Dakota, on the 10Th day of April, A. ID |
1916, that the line or boundary between
said Pennington and Custer Counties for |
the purpose Of assessment and taxation |
be established as follows to-wit:
Beginning at the west section corner
common to Sections Nineteen and Thirty |
in Township Two, south of range One,
L. b II. NJ, thence east to the west sec
ton corner common to sections Nine
teen and Thirty in Township Two, |
south of Range Nine f., b. II, NJ,
thence eighty rods due north to the |
northwest corner Of the Southwest Quar-
ter Of the Southwest Quarter of Section /
Nineteen, Township Two, South of
Range Nine, +. B. H. NJ, thence east
on the said forty line according to Gov |
ernment Survey thereof to the Chey- !
enne River.
Be 1t Further Resolved, that this reso-
luton shall be acted upon by each Board |
OF County Commissioners Of the said |
Counties at their regular meeting place
and that upon said action being taken !
aud this resolution being ratified by
each of said Boards, that copy of these
resolutions be submitted to the Attorney
General for the State of South Dakota,
with a request for his opinion as to the
legality OF the action of The joint session
in establishing said boundary as herein
before ,et out, and that if the opinion
of the Attorney General is TO the effect
that this resolution and agreement is
legal and within the powers of said
Boards of County Commissioners that
copy of this resolution shall be spread
upon the minutes of each of said Boards
of County Commissioners, and that
thereupon, the boundary line, as above
described, shall be established as such.
Be 1t Further Resolved, that all rea-
sonabie and legal effort be made to es
tablish said described boundary as
legal boundary between said Counties.