Affidavit of five freeholders. Two thousand five hundred inhabitants. Census taker to act as assessor. be organized, accompanied by an affidavit attached thereto of at least five freeholders of such county, showing that the signatures to such memorial are genuine signatures of householders and bona fide residents within said unorganized county, residing therein for six months prior to the taking of such census, and that the affiants do believe that there are two thousand five hundred bona fide inhabitants in such county, as stated in the memorial, it shall be the duty of the governor to appoint some competent person who is a bona fide resident of the county, to take the census, and ascertain the number of bona fide inhabitants as herein provided, of such unorganized county, who shall also act as assessor, and ascertain as nearly as possible the amount of taxable property that will be within the bounds of the said unorganized county in case of its organization. After being duly sworn to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and that he will truly and correctly make return of the enumerated inhabitants, and of the amount of property found by him within the bounds of the said unorganized county, he shall proceed to take the census of such county by ascertaining the names and ages of each of the bona fide inhabitants, as herein provided, of such unorganized county, and the number of actual householders residing in such county, and the number of acres of cultivated land. He shall also assess the value of all property, personal and real, in the manner provided by law for taking the assessment in organized counties. The person who shall take the census and assessment as herein required shall return to the governor, upon appropriate schedules, the census, enumeration and assessment required to be taken herein, with his affidavit, sworn to before the clerk of the supreme court of the state, attached thereto, that the census and enumeration and assessment contained in If it appears that said return are true. If it appear by such return that there are in such unorganized county at least two thousand five one hundred and hundred bona fide inhabitants, as herein provided, and that four hundred of them are householders, and that there is at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of property in excess of the legal exemptions, excluding railroad property, of which seventy-five thousand dollars' worth is real estate, the governor shall appoint three persons, citizens of said unorganized county, to act as commissioners, and one to act as county clerk, and may designate and declare the place recommended by a majority of the legal voters in a memorial to the Shall assess all property. there are at least and fifty thousand dollars of prop erty. Governor to appoint county commissioners. governor as a temporary county seat for such county; and from and after the qualification of the officers appointed under this act, the said county shall be deemed duly organized and the county seat shall be deemed temporarily located: Provided further, That none of the provisions of this act shall prevent or prohibit the county of Kiowa, or any township or school district therein, from voting bonds at any time after the organization of said county: And provided further, That no bonds of any kind shall be issued by any county, township or school district within one year after the organization of such new county under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Original section one of chapter sixty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 18, 1886. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the official state paper February 23, 1886. E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of State. CHAPTER XCI. WASHINGTON COUNTY-TO BUILD COUNTY BUILDINGS. AN ACT to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Washington county, Kansas, to provide a fund and appropriate the same for the purpose of building county buildings in said county, and supplemental to chapter 80 of the Laws of 1883. WHEREAS, The legislature of the state of Kansas did, by chapter number eighty of the laws of the year A. D. eighteen . hundred and eighty-three, authorize the county commissioners of Washington county, and other counties, to provide and appropriate a fund not exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of building county buildings; and whereas, said fund of twenty thousand dollars will not be County commissioners to levy tax not to exceed one-half of one per cent. sufficient to build county buildings suited to the needs and wants of said Washington county, Kansas: therefore, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of Washington county, Kansas, is hereby authorized from year to year to levy and cause to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are collected, a tax which in the aggregate will not exceed one-half of one per cent. on the dollar of all the taxable property of said county in any one year, for the purpose of creating and establishing a fund to be used in building county buildings at the county seat of said county, which said tax when collected shall be kept separate and apart from the other funds of said county, and shall be applied only to the use and purposes above specified: Provided, That the entire fund collected by said county under the provisions of this act and the provisions of chapter eighty of the laws of Kansas for the year A. D. eighteen hundred and Shall not exceed. eighty-three, shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount of thirty-five thousand dollars. Proviso. Shall be governed in building by. SEC. 2. That said board of county commissioners in building said county buildings shall be governed by the provisions of sections twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three of chapter twenty-five of the general statutes of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and said board shall from time to time appropriate said funds in the performance of all contracts made under the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 3, 1886. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the official state paper February 4, 1886. E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of State. CHAPTER XCII. FOURTH DISTRICT. AN ACT to fix the times of holding the terms of the district court of the act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. The terms of the district court of the fourth Terms of court. judicial district shall hereafter commence in the several coun county. ties therein, in each year, as follows: In the county of Ander- Anderson son on the first Monday in March and the first Monday in September; in the county of Franklin on the first Monday in Frankiin county. January, the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October; in the county of Douglas on the first Monday in Douglas county. February, the first Monday in May, and the second Monday in November. SEC. 2. An act entitled "An act fixing the times for holding the terms of the district court in Franklin county, and amendatory of an act entitled 'An act to change the terms of court in the fourth judicial district,'" approved February twentythird, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, being chapter one hundred and fifteen, laws of eighteen hundred and seventytwo, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventyseven; also an act entitled "An act to fix the terms of the district court in the county of Douglas," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 18, 1886. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the official state paper February 19, 1886. E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of State. Terms of court. Lyon county. Coffey county. Greenwood county. CHAPTER XCIII. FIFTH DISTRICT. AN ACT to regulate and fix the terms of the district court of the Fifth Judicial District, and to repeal chapter 112 of the Laws of 1885. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. The terms of the district court of the fifth judicial district shall commence in each year as follows: In the county of Lyon on the first Mondays in February, April, June, and October; in the county of Coffey on the first Mondays of March, July, and November; in the county of Greenwood on the first Mondays of May, September, and December. SEC. 2. All summonses, subpenas, bonds, recognizances, and all other processes, and all notices, either by publication or otherwise, issued out of and made returnable to or given in any proceeding in the district court of any of the counties included in this act, and which shall have been issued or been given prior to the passage of this act, shall by force of this act refer to the first term of court held in each of said counties under this act; and proceedings pending in the district court of any of the counties included in this act shall be taken up and proceeded with at the term herein specified for holding district court in said counties, the same as if no changes had been made in the time for holding said courts. SEC. 3. Chapter one hundred and twelve of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 17, 1886. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the official state paper February 18, 1886. E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of State. |