The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-07-17
COUNTIES STILL
TO HAVE TRIO OF
OFFICIAL PAPERS
Publisher in Southeastern Part
of State Claims Old Laws
Are Yet in Effect
A MENDMENTS VETOED
Governor Frazier Held That
Acts Relating to County APP
p0intments Conflicted

A southeastern North Dakota pub.
Usher has raised an interesting ques.
ton as to whether, as result OF
Governor Frazer's veto Of two laws
passed by the Sixteenth assembly re-
lating to the publication Of county
commissioners proceedings, these
county commissions will not be re-
quired under the statutes to appoint
two official county newspapers in
addition to the one official newspaper
to be selected by the state printing
and publishing commission -,
Senate Bill 16O. one of the long
string introduced at the instance of
J. w. Brinton, provided for the re-
enactment of Section 1908, G. l.. 1918,
which now provides for the publica-
tion of county commissioners pro-
ceedings in three official newspapers,
to read: 1T shall be the duty Of
the board to cause to be published in
the official newspaper published in
it's county a full and complete report
of all it's official proceedings at each
regular and special meeting"
Governor Frazier vetoed this mea-
sure, declaring the emergency clause,
which it carried, giving 1t immediate
effect, created a conflict with existing
laws. The existing laws to which
he referred were Sections 1908 and
1910 of the compiled laws of 1918,
which, as a result of the governors
veto of Senate Bill 100 and Senate
Bill 1862, which amended Sec. 1910,
relating to the county auditors fur
nishing copies of the official proceed
ings to the official newspaper, are
held to be still in effect. In vetoing
Senate Bill 162, Governor Frazier ex-
pressed the opinion that the point
was sufficiently covered in Senate
Bill 157, the measure which was re-
Gently referred and Senate Bill 1853,
which provides for the selection of
the official newspaper by the people
at the general election, beginning
with November, 1920.
If the contention of publishers who
have brought this matter before the
state printing and publication COM
mission is borne out, county COM
must continue to act un-
der these two sections which were
neither amended or repealed by the
last assembly and must, in addition
to the one official newspaper to he
selected about July 26 by the state
board, selected two other official
county newspapers to complete the
legal quota of three.
Secretary Of State Hall, who is
a member of the state printing and
commission, is mailing to
North Dakota newspapers a circular
calling their attention to Senate Bill
157, providing for the selection of
an afficial newspaper in each county
by the state board and citing the
fact that the complied laws of 1913
define as legal newspapers publica-
tions which have been established
not less than one year and which
have at least one page printed at
the place designated in the date line
and not less than $50 subscribers.
It is made the duty of the owner or
manager of any newspaper in this
state before such newspaper can be
awarded any contract for public
printing of any nature whatsoever. or
publish any legal notices of any kind
or nature to file with the county aud
itor of the county in which the news
paper is published verified state
ment setting forth the number of
regular subscribers and the length
Of time such newspaper has been es-
tablished and in circulation.