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CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
LADIES:
YOU CAN BEST GET PRESENTS FOR GENTLE
MAN AT A MAN'S STORE.
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NECKTIES. SUSPENDERS.
HOSIERY. HANKERCHIEFS.
AND LOTS OF THINGS MEN PREFER TO ANY
THING ELSE YOU CAN GIUE THEM.
JUST COME IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAUE FOR
PRESENTS.
WEMEMBER WE GIUE 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT
ON ALL GOODS.
HARTY BROS. & MULLEN
Supervisors’ Proceedings.
(Continued from page five.)
this 27th day of October, 1914.
S. F. McNichols, County Clerk.
Upon motion prayer of the petition
was granted.
To The County Board of Supervisors
of Holt County, Nebraska:
Gentlemen: In regard to the
question submitted to me by your
Honorable Body with reference to your
rights and duties with reference to the
petition filed with you for the division
of Saratoga Township in this county, I
submit the following:
Article 10, Section 5, of the Consti
tution of Nebraska grants to the
Legislature the power to provide by
general law for township organizations
which section is as follows:
"The legislature shall provide by
general law for township organiza
tion, under which any county may or
ganize whenever a majority of the
legal voters of such county voting at
any general election shall so de
termine; and in any county that shall
have adopted a township organization
the question of continuing the same
may be submitted to a vote of the
electors of such county at a general
iag' — m ~
election in the manner that shall be
provided by law.”
Section 985 of the Revised Statutes
of 1913 provides that “Each board o!
County Commissioners shall divide the
county into convenient precincts; anc
as occasion may require, erect new
ones, subdivide precincts already es
tablished, and alter precinct lines. Anc
whenever any portion of territory con
taining in the aggregate not less thar
one township of land, and not more
than four townships lying contig
ious, shall contain not less than fifteer
voters, it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners, on receipt of a
petition signed by a majority of the
legal voters therein, to constitute such
portion of the territory a voting
precinct.”
Volume 38 of the Cyclopedia of Law
and procedure, page 604, under the
heading, “Alterating and Creation of
new Towns and Townships states the
rule in general to be as follows:
“Subject to constitutional restrict
ions, the Legislature has full power to
create, abolish, enlarge, diminish, con
solidate and divide towns and other
wise change their boundaries; and may
exercise such power directly by either
Furniture!
We carry a complete stock of Fur
niture from wioh to select a useful
Christmas present
Below we list a few of the many
articles:
DAVENPORTS
DUOFOLDS
ROCKERS
DINING TABLES
LIBRARY TABLES
SMOKING STANDS
CEDAR CHESTS
RUGS, ALL SIZES
FRAMED PICTURES
Any of the above will make a very
bsautilful gift and one that will be
appreciated.
O. F. Biglirv
general or local law, or may authorize
'them to be exercised by local govern
mental boards or courts, in accordance
with general statutory provision.”
In our State I find no Constitutional
| restrictions upon the power of the
legislature but on the other hand find
j in the section above referred to that
the power is expressly given to the
Ligislature to organize townships.
While the question in regard to the
division of Saratoga township is not
entirely free from doubt, yet I am of
the opinion that section 985 above re
ferred to which gives to the County
Board of Commissioners the right and
duty to subdivide precincts already es
tablished as occasion may require
governs this question and your acts
with reference thereto. While it is
true this section is a direction to the
Board of County Commissioners, yet
section 1054 of the Revised Statutes
for 1913 provides that “In the absence
of any special provision governing the
goard of supervisors as contemplated
by this article, which board shall be
governed by and perform all the du
ties and have all the powers applicable
to county boards as provided by the
general laws of the state” and Sec
tion 1077, Revised Statutes of 1913,
provides, that “The duly elected and
qualified supervisors of counties adopt
ing the township supervisor system
under the provisions of the three pro
ceeding sections, shall be and consti
tute the county board of such county
with like powers, duties and limita
tions as other county boards.”
Therefore taking together sections
985 1054 and 1077, Revised Statutes,
1913, above referred to it ismyopinion
that it is made the duty and is manda
tory upon the county board of super
visors to subdivide precincts already
established as occasion may require
and upon a proper presentation of the
necessity by a petition signed by a
majority of the legal voters in the
district petitioning for a new township
and that it is made your duty by these
sections to subdivide the precinct upon
s the presentation of a proper petition
e and that it is not a discretional matter
on your part.
s Respectfully submitted,
f W. K. Hodgkin,
e County Attorney,
d By J. F. Power, Deputy County At
v torney.
Mr. Chairman: I move the follow
[1 ing officers be and are hereby ap
- point township officers for Coleman
n Township, to hold until there succes
e sors are duly elected and qualified.
- Treasurer.Jacob Wabs
n Township Clerk.Dennis Hines
e Justice of the Peace.John Coral
1 Assessor...! Henry Wabs
e Road Overseer Dist. No. 9..-Spry
® Constable.John Hines
i C. A. Fauquier.
F. O. Hammerberg.
1 mutiuii carrieu.
® Mr. Chairman: I move that at our
f next regular meeting, to-wit: the 15th
5 day of December, 1914, that we take
up for reconsideration the claim of
- George and Mable Tomlinson for a re
) fund of purchase price and taxes paid
. on the southwest quarter (SW14) of
section thirty (30), township thirty
one (31), range nine (9), west of the
’ sixth principal meridian in Holt
r county, which was filed with County
. Clerk, S. F. McNichols, on the 18th
day of July, 1913, and which was al
lowed by this board in the sum of
$581.42 on the 18th day of July, 1913,
with the purpose of reconsidering our
action taken on said claim and with
the further purpose of rescinding the
action of the board on said claim, and
I further move that George Tomlinson
and Mable Tomlinson be each served
with a copy of this motion and that
they be given full notice to appear on
said 15th day of December, 1914, to
show cause, if any, why the action of
this board should not be rescinded.
D. M. Stuart.
Seconded by C. A. Fauquier.
Motion carried.
NOTICE.
To George Tomlinson and Mabel Tom
linson:
You are hereby notified that on the
26th day of November, 1914, a motion
was duly passed by the County Board
of Supervisors of Holt County, Ne
braska, naming the 15th day of De
cember, 1914, as the date upon which
the board would take up for recon
sideration its action of date 18th day
of July, 1913, allowing the claim filed
by you with the County Clerk on the
18th day of July, 1913, in the sum of
$581.42 for a refund of purchase price
and taxes paid on the southwest quar
ter (SWVi) of section thirty (30),
township thirty-one (31), range nine
(9), west of the sixth principal meri
dian in Holt county, which motion is
in words and figures as follows:
“Mr. Chairman: I move you that at
our next regular meeting, to-wit: the
15th day of December, 1914, that we
take up for reconsideration the claim
of George and Mabel Tomlinson for a
refund of the purchase price and taxes
paid on the couthwest quarter (SW%)
of section thirty (30), township thirty
one (31), range nine (9), west of the
| sixth principal meridian in Holt
county, which was filed with County
Clerk, S. F. McNichols, on the 18th
In Holid&y Goods
WE HAVE RINGS OF ALL KINDS, PLAIN, STONE, DIAMOND AND SIG
NET ; BRACELETS, CUFF BUTTONS, WATCHES, WATCH FOBS, ' r
LOCKETS, SILVERWARE, VIOLINS AND KODAKS, ANY
OF WHICH WOULD MAKE A BEAUTIFUL AND LAST
ING PRESENT.
WE ALSO CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF EASTMAN DODAKS.
Graves’ Jewelry Store.
day of July, 1913, and which w^s al
lowed by this board in the sum of
$581.42 on the 18th day of July, 1913,
with the purpose of reconsidering our
action taken on said claim and with
the further purpose of rescinding the
action of the board of said claim. And
I further move that George Tomlinson
and Mabel Tomlinson be each served
with a copy of this notice and that
they be given full notice to appear on
said 15th day of December, 1914, to
show cause, if any, why the action of
this board should not be rescinded.
You are further notified to appear
on said 15th day of December, 1914, to
show cause, if any there be, why the
action of the County Board on your
said claim should not be rescinded.
Witness our hands this 28th day of
November, 1914.
Th. D. Sievers.
D. M. Stuart.
C. A. Fauquier.
F. O. Hammerberg.
. i ■
Board of Supervisors of Holt County,
Nebraska.
Attest:—S. F. McNichols,
County Clerk.
Mr. Chairman: I move that a
committee of two to include the Chair
man be appointed to investigate the
automobile accident at the Robertson
bridge, November 25, 1914.
C. A. Fauquier.
D. M. Stuart.
Motion carried.
Chairman appointed D. M. Stuart.
Upon motion board adjourned until
December 15, 1914,10 o’clock a. m.
Th. D. Sievers, Chairman.
S. F. McNichols, County Clerk.
Nebraska Notes.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will
file a petition with the state supreme
court asking that the passenger rate
in this state be raised from 2 cents to
3 cents a mile. The state railway
commission refused the request of the
railroad.
Eugene P. Mumford, of Beatrice,will
be the private secretary of Gov. More
head during his second term. irifr
present secretary, Andrew Morrisey,
has been appointed assistant attorney
general and will take up his new
duties shortly after the first of the
year.
Floyd Catlin, a clerk in the Fair
bury postoffice, was accidently shot
by his father while out hunting.
Several shot entered Catlin’s body.
He was taken to Omaha for treatment.
Jay Laverty, a prominent commis
sion merchant of South Omaha, acci
dently fired a charge of shot into his
right hand while out hunting. It was
necessary to amputate the hand.
Mary Voseler, 15 years old, of Lin
coln, mysteriously disappeared Satur
day night and has not been located.
She started for a dance, but never
reached the hall. Her father fears
that she has into white slavers clutches
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