by fire, or by any risk of inland transportation. Fourteenth, The purchase, location and laying out of town sites, and the sale and conveyance of the same in lots and sub-divisions or otherwise. Fifteenth, The construction and maintenance of a railway, and of a telegraph line in connection therewith. Sixteenth, The construction and maintenance of any species of road and of bridges in connection therewith. Seventeenth, The construction and maintenance of a bridge. Eighteenth, The construction and maintenance of a telegraph line. Nineteenth, The establishment and maintenance of a line of stages. Twentieth, The establishment and maintenance of a ferry. Twenty-first, The building and navigation of steamboats and carriage of persons and property thereon. Twentysecond, The supply of water to the public. Twenty-third, The manufacture and supply of gas or the supply of light or heat to the public by any other means. Twenty-fourth, The transaction of any manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical business. Twenty-fifth, The transaction of a printing and publishing business. Twenty-sixth, The establishment and maintenance of a hotel. Twenty-seventh, The erection of buildings, and the accommodation and loan of funds for the purchase of real property. Twentyeighth, The improvement of the breed of domestic animals. by importation, sale or otherwise. Twenty-ninth, The transportation of goods, wares, merchandise or any val uable thing. Thirtieth, The promotion of immigration. Thirty-first, The construction and maintenance of sewers. Thirty-second, The construction and maintenance of a street railway. Thirty-third, The erection and maintenance of market-houses and market-places. Thirty-fourth, The construction and maintenance of dams and canals for the purposes of water-works, irrigation or manufacturing purposes. Thirty-fifth, The construction, maintenance and operation of union stock yards, and the erection of such buildings, hotels, railways and switches as may be necessary for that purpose. Thirty-sixth, The conversion and disposal of agricultural products by means of mills,

Sections repealed

elevators, markets and stores or otherwise. Thirty-seventh, The organization and maintenance of boards of trade.

SEC. 3. Sections four and one of the acts respectively to which this act is amendatory, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1872.

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 Kansas Daily Commonwealth March 19, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CVI.

COUNTIES-HOW ORGANIZED.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act relating to the organization of new counties."

Imenda

14, just

Jn. $9.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
SECTION 1. Section one of an act relating to the
organization of new counties is hereby amended so as to Memorial.
read: Section 1. When there shall be presented to the
Governor a memorial signed by forty householders, who
are legal electors of the state, of any unorganized county,
showing that there are six hundred inhabitants in such
county, and praying that such county may be organized,
accompanied by an affidavit attached to such memorial,
of at least three householders of such county, showing
that the signatures to such memorial are the genuine sig-
natures of householders of such unorganized county, and
that the affiants have reason to and do believe, that there
are six hundred inhabitants in such county as stated in
the memoria, it shall be the duty of the Governor to Governor to
appoint some competent person who is a bona fide resi- taker.
dent of the county, to take the census and ascertain the
number of bona fide inhabitants of such unorganized
county, who shall, after being duly sworn to faithfully
discharge the duties of his office, proceed to take the
census of such county, by ascertaining the name and age
of each of the bona fide inhabitants of such unorganized
county, who shall receive for services rendered under this
section, pay at the rate of three dollars per day, from the
state treasurer, upon an itemized account verified by
affidavit. The person who shall take the census as Return.
required, shall return to the Governor, upon appropriate
schedules, the census authorized to be taken herein, cer-
tified to be correct and true, and if it appear by such
return that there are in such unorganized county at least

appoint a census

County seat.

six hundred bona fide inhabitants, he shall appoint three persons, who shall be recommended in the memorial herein before provided for, to act as county commissioners, and a proper person to act as county clerk, to be recommended in like manner as the commissioners, and shall designate such place as he may select, centrally located, as a temporary county seat for such county, and shall commission such persons as such officers, and declare such place the temporary county seat of such county; and from and after qualification of the officers appointed under this section, the said county seat shall be deemed duly organized.

SEC. 2. Section one of the act to which this amendatory is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1872.

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 Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 14, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CVII.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-DUTY OF.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act relating to counties and county officers.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That section twenty-six of the act to which this act is amendatory be amended so as to read as follows: Section 26. That it shall be the duty of the board Meet-when. of county commissioners to meet on the second Monday in January succeeding their election, or within thirty days thereafter, and organize by electing one of their number chairman, who shall preside at that meeting, and at all other meetings during his term of office, if present; but in case of his absence, a temporary chairman may be elected from the members present; and in case of the death or resignation of the chairman of the board, they may, at any regular or special meeting after such vacancy, elect one of their number chairman to fill

the vacancy.

SEC. 2. That section twenty-six of the act to which this section repealed. act is amendatory, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth.

Approved February 6, 1872.

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 Kansas Daily Commonwealth February 7, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.