Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-03-15
IN DATES DOES
NOT INvALIDATE THE BILL
SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL
WALTERS-ELECTIoN BE
HELD JULY 9

WALL BE
HELD JULY 2
Boise, Idaho, March 13. A serious
discrepancy has developed in connec-
tion with the Selway cou nty enabling
act, which the courts may have to set
tie. The bill sets the first Monday in
July as the date for holding ng the county
division election. 1t prov ides, however,
that the county commissioners at their
regular quarterly meeting, which falls
on the second Monday in July, shall
make necessary arrangements for the
| election. This places the cart before
the horse. AS originally drafted the
bill provided the election should be held
held the first Monday in August. In
changing the date of the election the
authors forgot to change the time of
| the commissioners meeting. The at
torney general holds informally that
the date of the election having been set
it necessarily follows that the com
missioners must make the arrange
ments. The governor has not as yet
signed the bill.
To create and organize the county of
Selway in the state of Idaho subject to
the approval of this Act by majority
of the qualified electors therein. To
define the boundaries thereof and to
define the boundaries Of Idaho and
Lewis counties; to designate the tenn
porary county seat of said Selway
county, and to provide for submitting
to the electors of said Selway county
the question of the determination of
the permanent county seat of said
county; and for the holding of an elec-
tion in said proposed County of Selway
upon the question of the creation and
organization of said proposed county in
accordance with the provisions of this
act; to provide for the appprtionment of
| the indebtedness of Idaho and Lewis
counties between Idaho and Lewis
counties, respectively, and Selway
county; to provide for the appointment
and qualification of officers in said
Selway County, and for transcribing
that portions of the records of Idaho
and Lewis counties pertaining to per
sons and property within Selway
county, and to constitute the county of
Selway part of the Second Judicial
District of the State of Idaho; to pro
vide for the transfer of actions and pro
ceedings appertaining to persons and
property within said Selway county
from the district and probate courts of
said Idaho and Lewis counties; for the
repeal of conflicting acts and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Idaho:
Section |. There shall be and there
is hereby created and formed out of a
portion of Idaho County and portion
of Lewis County of the State of Idaho
a new county to be called Selway, to be
organized as hereinafter provided, how
ever, that the majority of the qualified
electors within the territory comprising
the proposed new county, as hereinafter
defined and described, voting at the
election hereinafter provided for shall
vote in favor of this Act becoming
operative for the purposes of the crea-
tion and organization of the said County
of Selway in the manner hereinafter
provided by an election to be called
, and held for that purpose in said terri
tory
Sec. 2. All that portion of the pres
ent County of Idaho and all that portion
of the present County of Lewis in the
State of Idaho included within the fol
lowing boundaries, to-wit:
Beginning at the point where the
range line between Ranges Two (2) and
Three (3) East, Boise Meridian, inter
: sects the middle of the channel of
, LAWYERS CANYON Creek on the present
: boundary between Idaho and Lewis
Counties; thence running up the center
of the channel of Lawyers Canyon
Creek to the point where the section
, line between Sections Thirty ythree (33)
and Thirty four (34) of Township
, Thirty-three (33) North, Range Two (2)
East, Boise Meridian, ihtersects sale
creek on said boundary; thence south or
said section line to the southwest cor
ner of Section Twenty seven (2O
Township Thirty-two (32) North, Range
, Two (2) East Boise Meridian; thence
east to the southeast corner of Sectior
, Twenty light (2s), Township Thirty
two (32) North, Range Three (3) East
Boise Meridian; thence south to the
, southwest corner of Section Ten (1O)
Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range
Three (3) East, Boise Meridian; thence
east to the southeast corner of Sector
:. Eleven ll), Township Thirty -one (3l,
North, Range Three (3) East, Bois'
Meridian; thence south On the section
. line between Sections Thirteen (13) ant
= Fourteen tlfl, 1oWnonfP M " o
s (3l) North, Range Three (3) East
8 Boise Meridian, and continuation
r thereof to point where the same inter
s sects the south boundary line OF tn
Y Nez Prece Indian Reservation; thence
i in n southeasterly direction along sait
a reservation line to a point where tn
a same ;ntersects the section line runnin,
east and west between Sections Nine
q teen (19) and Thirty (30), Township
: Thirty-one (31) North, Range Four q
I East, Boise Meridian; thence east alon
a sa;d section line and d continuation
0 thereof to point where the same inter
sects the middle of the channel OF tn
n South Fork of the Clearwater River
thence up the middle of the channel o
said steram to a point where the sam
r ;ntersects the section line running eas
q and west between Sections Four (4) an
Nina fe). Township (30) North, Rang