The Glenwood post., 1916-02-26

| NhOAAS uoecJ Al caCu year
Shall domestic animals be permitted to
run at large from sunrise to sunset
from the first day of --(naming
date) until the first day O.
(naming date) in each year2
Section 4. When a petition for an
election is presented, it shall be the
duty of the board of county commits
sioners to submit to the legal voters Of
such stock district, at a special cleo
ton to be called by such board, as here
matter provided, the question or ques-
tions by such petition presented.
Sec. 5. Petitions provided for in this
act shall be subject to the action of the
board of county commissioners in call.
ing an election to be published for
three consecutive weeks in a newspaper
published and of general circulation N
the county in which such election -
to be held and cause to be posted in
conspicuous places at every postoffiee
in the stock district in which such elec.
tion is to be held, a copy of the notice
of such election. The notice of the
election, published and posted, shall
contain a statement of the date and
place of such election, the question or
questions of police regulations to be
submitted thereat and the boundary
line of such stock district. Such cleo
tion shall not be held less than three
nor more than five weeks after the
date of the order of the said board
calling such election. Such election
shall be held and conducted in con-
formity with the general election laws
of the state, in force at the time Of
holding such election, except as other
Sec. Z. The owner of any stock or
csc. 7. The owner Of any stock or
domestic animal prohibited by police
regulation, adopted by the vote of any
stock district, from running at large
within the district at any time, shall
be liable for all damages done thereby
while unlawfully remaining at large
upon the public highway or upon the
lands of another, or beyond the bound
ary lines of any stock district; which
damages may be recovered in suit
for trespass, together with costs Of
such suit, before any court having COM
petent jurisdiction, and the party IL
iured or whose lands are trespassed
upon, may distrain the trespassing ami
NAL, or animals, and retain the same in
some place at the expense of the owner,
as security for the payment of sucn
damages and costs such damages to be
assessed pro rata per head, and each
owner more than one, shall be liable for
the pro rata amount to the person dam
aged, together with his pro rata shave
of the costs of such distraint, and eacn
owner shall have the right to release
his stock from distraint by paying the
said pro rata amount to the person
damaged.
Sec. s. If any person, by force, or
otherwise, without leave of the person
having the stock under distraint, re-
move the stock from such distraint, the
person SO doing shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall
pay fine of not less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars, or be impris.
oned in the county Jail not less than
ten nor more than sixty days, and
| Il, fbar ho 1ioh in \
civil action for the recovery of the
stock or its value, so relieved from dis
traint, or for damages and costs, rs
the party distraining may elect.
Sec. 8. Within forty-eight hours
after stock has been distrained, exclu-
sive of Sundays and holidays, the party
distraining shall notify the owner OF
said stock, when known, or, if un.
known, the party having them IN
charge, advising said owner, or the
party having them in charge, of the
damages claimed and the costs of such
distraint; and if said parties fail TO
agree upon a settlement for such DAM
ages and costs of distraint, and for
the discharge from distraint of such
stock, either party may, by suit in
any court Of competent Jurisdiction,
proceed to have said matters adjudgcd
and if in said suit the restraining party
shall obtain judgment he shall have ex-
ecution upon the stock so distrained
for the satisfaction of such judgment,
and for costs.
Sec. 10. The owner of any stock, 1T
any time before final judgment may
release all stock from distraint, by exe-
cutting and delivering an undertaking