The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-02-06
N|N0T MAY HOLD
AGRICULTURAL FAIR
Senator MOstad Introduces Bill Pro-
viding for Annual Appropriation
of $4,000 to Maintain Fair

Senator Tholwald Mostad has in
troduced" the following Senate bill No.
121, providing for the establishment
of an annual agricultural fair in the
city of Minot, which will in all prob
ability be passed:
A BILL For an Act to incorporate
and establish the Minot Agricul-
ture and Fair Association, and
making an appropriation therefor.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative AS
sembly Of the State of North Da-
kota:
Section l. Purpose of and Location
Permanently Fixed at Minot. For the
purpose Of promoting and improving
the condition Of agriculture, horticul-
ture, mechanical manufacturing and
household arts, Minot Agriculture
and Fair Association fair or exposi-
tion shall be held annually at the city
of Minot, in the state of North Da-
kota, subject to the conditions here
matter named, and the location Of the
Minot Agriculture and Fair Associa-
tion as herein provided, is hereby de-
clared to be permanent.
Section 2. Conditions to be Com
piled With by Minot. If an organ
ization, to be known and designated
as the Minot Agriculture and Fair AS
sociation for Minot, or by some SINH
lar name, shall be during the year
1919, created and organized under and
pursuant to the general laws of this
state, in relation to corporations, with
paid up capital stock Of not less
than twenty thousand dollars, such
association shall become entitled to
receive the appropriations hereinaf-
ter named upon the conditions set
forth in this article. The said as
sociation may acquire the title to not
less than forty acres of ground in
the city of Minot, in said state, and
such association may, and it is here
by empowered and authorized to con-
vey the title to the land so acquired
by it., unto the state Of North Da-
kota, which property, when so con-
veyed, shall be held by the state of
North Dakota forever for the follow
ing purposes and no other: For the
purpose of exhibiting thereon, under
the management Of such association,
or it's successors, annually, the agri-
cultural, stock breeding, horticultur-
al, mining, mechanical, industrial
and other products and resources Of
the state of North Dakota, including
proper exhibits of the arts, sciences
and all other public displays pertin-
ent to and dependent upon exhibitions
and expositions of human art, indus
try and skill. The said association
may use so much of it's paid-up cap
ital stock as may be necessary for the
acquisition of title to the land so to
be purchased by it for use as fair
ground, and the balance thereof shall
be and constitute fund toward the
construction of buildings and other
permanent improvements thereon.
Section 8. Custody and Control Of
Minot Grounds. The custody and
control of the premises upon which
said fair at Mlnot is located shall be-
vested in said Minot Agriculture and
Fair Association for Minot, and the
general offices thereof shall lbe locat
ed and maintained either upon the
premises so acquired or at some suit
able place in the city Of Mniot, and
said association is hereby authorized,
required and empowered to maintain
its said offices as aforesaid wherein
shall be contained the property and
records of such association, and the
entire care, custody, management and
control of said premises and the struc-
lures thereon shall be in said associa-
tion.
Section 4. Governor and Attorney
General to Accept Title. Failure
Of State Appropriations Land Reverts
to Original Owners. Board Of Dir
ectors. When the state Of North
Dakota accepts the title to the land
so acquired by said association, which
acceptance shall be made. by the gov
ernor and attorney general thereup-
on and not before such time, shall
the deed of conveyance of said prop
erty to the state be accepted and re-
corded. Should the state Of North
Dakota cease to appropriate the sum
of at least two thousand five hundred
dollars annually in connection with
said fair, then the title of said prem
ises shall revert to and become the
property of the association that
transferred Lne same 20 tne Statcl
provided, further, that the state shall
never become liable for any Of the
debts and liabilities Of said associa
tion, save as appropriations shall. be
made therefor from time to time by
the legislative assembly. The pro-
visions of this article shall not be-
come binding upon the state as to said
fair association until the. stockhold-
Sers Of such association shall adopt
and file with the secretary Of state an
irrepealable bylaw consenting and
providing that it's board Of direct
ors shall consist Of fifteen persons;
that the governor, commissioner of
agriculture and labor and the state
auditor shall ex-officio, constitute
three of such directors; that five
of the directors of such association
shall be residents Of the judicial dis
trict in which said fair is to be held,
and that one director shall be select
ed from each other judicial district Of
the state, and shall be a resident Of