I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER CCIII. TOWNSHIP CLERK-EXECUTE BOND. AN ACT amendatory to an act relating to township officers, chapter one hundred and ten, General Statutes of Kansas. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. Each township clerk shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the State of Kansas in a sum not less than three hundred dollars, with two or more sureties, the amount and sufficiency of the bond to be approved by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be by him forthwith filed in the office of the county clerk. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 15, 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 February 22, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, 28 ing and cultiva; 4 CHAPTER CCIV. FOREST TREES-ENCOURAGE GROWTH OF. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to encourage the growth of forest trees," approved March 2, 1868. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : SECTION 1. That section one of an act entitled "an act to encourage the growth of forest trees," approved Bounty for plant- March 2, 1868, be amended, so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every person planting one acre or more of prairie land, each acre containing not less than one hundred and sixty trees, within ten years after the passage of this act, with any kind of forest trees, except black locust, and successfully growing and cultivating the same for three years, and every person planting, protecting and cultivating for three years one-half mile or more of forest trees, along any public highway, said trees to be planted so as to stand at the end of three years not more than one rod apart, shall be entitled to receive for twentyfive years, commencing three years after said grove or line of trees has been planted, an annual bounty of two dollars per acre for each acre so planted, and two dollars for each half mile so planted, to be paid out of the county treasury of the county in which said grove or line of trees may be situated. Such bounty shall not be paid any longer than said grove or line of trees is kept alive and in a growing condition; (and any person having planted a grove of trees at any time-black locust excepted-of one acre or more, and has cultivated the same, and shall so continue the cultivation as above, shall be entitled to the bounty above specified, commencing with the year 1872 and continuing twenty-five years. Bounty cease; SEC. 2. Section one of an act entitled "an act to encourage the growth of forest trees," approved March 2, 1868, is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 29, 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 28, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER CCV. WAMEGO-DONATION FOR FLOURING MILL. AN ACT to enable the mayor and common council of the city of Wamego, Pottawatomie county, Kansas, to donate two thousand dollars to aid in constructing a flouring mill in said city. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : SECTION 1. That the mayor and common council of the city of Wamego, Pottawatomie county, Kansas, are here- Amount. by authorized to donate the sum of two thousand dollars, in cash, to W. E. Simpson, for the purpose of building a flouring mill in the said city of Wamego. SEC. 2 For the purpose of raising the amount of two thousand dollars in cash, as specified in section one of May issue bonds. this act, the mayor and common council are authorized to issue the bonds of the city of Wamego, in a sum sufficient to raise the amount required in cash: Provided, Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk of said corporation, and the interest Interest. on said bonds shall not be over ten per cent. per annum, and made payable at such time and place as shall be written in the bonds. Duty of clerk. est and create a sinking fund. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said board of councilmen to register said bonds in the records of said city, which records shall show their number, date, amount, to whom issued and delivered, and for how much sold. SEC. 4. The mayor and common council of said city of Tax to pay inter- Wamego shall levy a tax on all the property of said city, sufficient to create a sinking fund that will pay the principal when it becomes due, and the interest at the proper To whom paid. Question to be submitted. time. SEC. 5. The amount specified in section one of this act shall be paid to W. E. Simpson, at the time his mill machinery is placed on the ground in the city of Wamego. SEC. 6. That before said bonds shall be issued, as herein before provided, an election shall be called by the mayor of the said city of Wamego, to be held at such time as may be specified in said call, at which the qualified electors of said city shall vote "for the bonds," or "against the bonds;" and if a majority of such qualified electors shall vote "for the bonds," they shall be issued as hereinbefore provided; but if a majority of the votes cast shall be "against the bonds," they shall not be issued, nor the said amount of two thousand dollars in cash paid, as specified in section one of this act. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Wamego Dispatch. The foregoing bill having been presented to the Governor, and not having been approved by him or returned with his objections, within the time prescribed by the constitution, will take effect without his signature, upon proper publication. 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 Wamego Dispatch March 7, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, CHAPTER CCVI. WAREHOUSES, ELEVATORS AND GRANARIES- AN ACT relating to the construction and maintenance of warehouses, elevators and granaries, and supplementary to chapter twenty-three of the General Statutes, relating to private corporations. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : tion. SECTION 1. In addition to the purposes for which private corporations may be formed, as designated in Private corporasection five of chapter twenty-three of the General Statutes of 1868, as said section has been heretofore enlarged and amended, private corporations may be formed and organized in the manner prescribed in said chapter twenty-three for the construction and maintenance of warehouses, elevators and granaries. warehouse may SEC. 2. If any person shall leave, in any public or private warehouse in this state, any property of a perish- Property left in able nature, or which, if not taken away and sold within be sold; when. fifteen months from the time at which such property was so left, would not, at the expiration of that time, be worth the charges which should then be due upon such property, and if the charges upon such property shall not be paid, then, and in that case, it shall be lawful for the occupant or occupants of such warehouse to sell at auction to the highest bidder so much of such property as will pay the charges due, and the expenses of selling and advertising the same, upon giving not less than three weeks' public notice of the time and place of such sale, in two or more newspapers published in the town where such warehouse may be situated, or the vicinity thereof. may be issued. SEC. 3. No warehouseman, wharfinger or other person, shall issue any receipt or other voucher for any goods, when receipt wares, merchandise, grain, or other produce or commodity, to any person or persons purporting to be the |