The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-02-22
Seed Grain Law
Is Passed

AS the BANNER goes to press WI
learn that a seed grain law ha'
just been passed by the specia
session of the legislature. Below
we publish the bill as it was re
commended to the Senate for pas
sage by the House, and no doubt
was passed in this form, with per
haps a few minor changes.
Petitions are already being cir.
culated In Glendive calling for a
special election to bond the coun-
ty so that seed can be purchased
and furnished to needy farmers.
The bill as it stood when transmitted to
the senate provides that it shall be lawful
for any county in the state to purchase and
furnish to farmers who are financially un-
able to procure the same, seed grain for
planting where there has been total or
partial failure of crops by reason of drouth
hail or other misfortune; where petition
signed by 100 or more freeholders has been
presented; that upon such presentation the
county clerk must call a special meeting
of the commissioners to be held not more
than five days after the filing of the petit
tion; that at such meeting the board shall
examine the petition and determine if it
shall be necessary to furnish the inhabit-
ants of the county with seed grain, and to
make an estimate upon the amount re-
quired; that if the estimate shows no more
than $4,000 to be needed and which sum
together with the existing Indebtedness
does not exceed the constitutional limit of
Indebtedness, the board shall proceed to
purchase the necessary seed.
If the amount required will amount to
more than $4,000 the board must forth
with call special election to submit to
the electors of the county the question of
incurring the necessary Indebtedness, the
same to be held not less than Is days nor
more than 30 days after the order for the
holding of such an election, registration
for said election to close at 5 p. m, on the
18th day before the date of the election,
and if the question of incurring such an
Indebtedness carry then the commission
ers shall proceed to purchase and supply
the grain required without advertising for
bids, payments to be made in county war
rants drawn upon a seed Grain Fund,
said warrants to be registered and bear in
terest at the rate of z per cent per annum
and whenever the board deems it necess-
airy these warrants may be exchanged for
per cent bonds due and payable in not
less than two yeaAs and not more than five
years that where the warrants have not
been funded by the issuance of bonds the
commissioners shall levy tax upon the
taxable property of the county which tax
may be distributed over one, two or three
years, all warrants to be paid within three
years and in the case of the issuance of
bonds tax may be levied to pay the in
terest and to redeem the bonds.
Applications for seed grain must be filed
with the county clerk accompanied by a
statement of the number of acres plowed
or prepared for seeding, etc., which appli-
cations will be examined and considered
by the commissioners, that no applicant
shall receive more than $50 bushels of
seed grain, that the recipient of the grain
shall execute note payable to the county,
with interest at per cent which shall be
a lien on both personal and real property
and all crops grown from the seed grain
so furnished, which note must be paid on
Or before Oct. 20 of the same year; that
this shall constitute lien which will have
priority over all other liens excepting liens
and encumbrances on record prior thereto
and to liens of laborers and threshermen
for work done in connection with the pro-
lucing and harvesting of the crop for
which the seed was furnished.
If the same has not been paid before
Nov. 1 it will then be assessed in taxes
ind if not paid before Jan. it will be
old by the sheriff under the same method ,
is the sale of delinquent taxes Persons |
,uilty of misappropriation of seed grain
hall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.