Sec. 2679. An act to provide for the payment of costs in misdemeanor cases and suits to prevent crime and offenses and to repeal sec. 541 of the Criminal Code of Nebraska, and to repeal said original section. Sheldon's misdemeanor costs bill. 1905, S. F. 87; in force July 1.

Payment of costs in misdemeanor cases.

2679. Magistrates and Clerks of Court may furnish to the County Clerks of their respective counties, certified copies of any cost bills that are not col

lectable in cases of misdemeanor and peace warrant causes; and it shall be the duty of each county clerk receiving any such Bills, to place them upon a separate file and preserve them in his office. At the first meeting of the County Board, in each county, in the months of April and October of each year, said Board shall appropriate from the general fund a sum sufficient to pay all such bills, or parts thereof, as may be found to be lawful and just, and thereupon said Board shall audit all such Bills in the manner required in Section five hundred and Thirty-six. Provided that no costs shall be allowed in any case unless said suit shall have been instituted with the consent of the County Attorney, or, after being brought, he shall approve of such action in writing..

History.-Laws 1905, S. F. 87; in force July 1.

2816. That within sixty (60) days after the close of the said Exposition, it shall be within the discretion of the Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, (and he is hereby authorized to advertise,) to sell at public auction, for cash in hand, all and singular, the property acquired by said Board of State Commissioners, to account for the same to the Governor, and when approved by him to pay the sum of money so received from said sale to the State Treasurer, to the credit of the state general fund.

History. Amended 1905, S. F. 173; in force April 4.

Sec. 2831. A joint resolution authorizing the governor of Nebraska to enter into and sign a compact with the governor of the state of South Dakota as agreed upon by a commission appointed by said governors to fix the boundaries between said states at certain points. Meserve's boundary bill. 1905, S. F. 43; approved February 3.

2831. WHEREAS, the governor of Nebraska, acting under and by virtue of authority conferred upon him by law, did appoint three commissioners to act. with a like number of commissioners to be appointed by the governor of the State of South Dakota, to ascertain and report a true and correct boundary line between the State of Nebraska and the State of South Dakota between certain points. WHEREAS, the governor of South Dakota, acting under and by virtue of authority conferred upon him by law, did appoint three commissioners to act with said commissioners appointed as aforesaid by the State of Nebraska. WHEREAS, said commissioners met, formed a joint commission consisting of six commissioners, and said joint commissioners ascertained said boundary line,

and reported the same as required by law. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the senate, the house of representatives concurring, that the governor of Nebraska be, and he is hereby authorized to enter into and sign the following compact with the governor of the State of South Dakota.

COMPACT.

WITNESSETH, that subject to the consent of Congress, that portion of the boundary line between the State of Nebraska, and the State of South Dakota, lying and being north of Dakota County, Nebraska, shall be in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri River as now existing.

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VOL. II.-GENERAL LAWS

3014. Report-Dissolution-Disposition of property.

Each society receiving such appropriation shall, through its Secretary, make to the County Board a detailed statement, with vouchers showing the legal disbursement of all the money received. And in all cases, when such County Agricultural Societies shall be dissolved, or neglect, for the space of two years, to discharge the duties devolving upon them by law or cease to exist, in any county where payments have been made for real estate, or improvements upon such real estate, for the use of any Agricultural Society, then all such real estate and improvements shall vest in fee simple in the county making such payment, and the District Court of said County, upon proof thereof, shall, upon petition of the County Board, make a proper decree vesting the title to said property in said County;* provided, that any Societies, receiving such appropriation shall have the right to exchange its real estate and improvements for other real estate, or to sell its real estate for the purpose of acquiring other real estate for fair grounds and to make, execute, deliver and accept all proper or necessary conveyances in and about such exchange, sale, or purchase and the right of the county in the original grounds and improvements, as provided for in this section, shall extend to the real estate derived from exchange or purchase; and provided further, that no such sale or exchange shall be made, except with the approval of the District Court of the proper county in a proceeding had for said purpose, and after due notice to all parties interested by publication for three successive weeks in the official paper of said County, and prior to the first day of the term of said court at which said approval is asked.

History. All after added 1905, S. F. 256; in force April 4.

3019. County aid.

Whenever twenty or more persons, residents of any county in this state, shall organize themselves into a society for the improvement of agriculture within said county, and shall have adopted a constitution and by-laws agreeable to the rules and regulations furnished by the usual and proper officers, and when the said society shall have raised and paid into the treasury, by voluntary subscription or by fee imposed upon its members, any sum of money, in each year not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars and whenever the president of said society shall certify to the county clerk the amount thus paid, in counties having a population of thirty thousand (30,000) or more, the county board shall and in counties having a population of less than thirty thousand (30,000) the county board may order a warrant to be drawn on the general fund of said county in favor of the president of said society for the sum of three cents on each inhabitant of said county

upon a basis of the last vote for member of congress in said county, allowing five inhabitants for each vote, and said county board shall include said sum in its annual estimate, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county to pay the sum out of the general fund; provided that if any existing county agricultural society fails for two years or more to hold an annual fair of at least three days duration, then any agricultural society in the county, duly organized and formed for a similar purpose and governed by the rules of this chapter, and who shall hold an annual fair of at least three days duration, may apply for and shall be allowed the amount above designated in this Section. History. Amended 1905, H. R. 175; in force July 1.

5. The application of an agricultural society for assistance from the county funds is a claim, and an appeal from its allowance by a taxpayer will lie to reexamine the facts as to the organization and com

petency of the society. No reexamination as to the public interest in assisting such a society is permissible. Sheldon v. Gage County Society of Agri., Neb. -; 98 N. W. R. 1045.

Secs. 3019a to 3019d. An act authorizing the board of county commissioners of any county to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum for each county, to defray the local expenses connected with farmers' institutes in said county. Cropsey's farmers' institute bill. 1905, H. R. 173; in force July 1.

3019a. County aid the farmers' institute

That the board of county commissioners of any county in Nebraska is hereby authorized, when they deem the same for the best interest of their county, to appropriate a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum for the county, to defray the local expenses of holding farmers' institutes under the oversight and with the cooperation of the University of Nebraska. History.-Laws 1905, H. R. 173, sec. 1; in force July 1.

3019b. University men not paid from such fund.

No money shall be paid out of such appropriation for the services of any officers or local committees in connection with any farmers' institute, or to any person or persons under pay by the University of Nebraska.

History.-Laws 1905, H. R. 173, sec. 2; in force July 1.

3019c. How institute organized.

Before any farmers' institute can take advantage of this appropriation it shall be duly organized with a president, a secretary, treasurer, an executive board consisting of not less than three members, and a signed membership of not less than fifty actual farmers; and no money shall be paid for the expenses of any institute not held in cooperation with said University of Nebraska. History.-Laws 1905, H. R. 173, sec. 3; in force July 1.

3019d. How money disbursed.

The money paid out under this act shall be upon warrants of the county authorizing the payment, drawn in favor of the treasurer of the institute and upon a certificate of such local expenses, which may include such expenses as hall rent, advertising, hotel bills of speakers, and the expense of procuring speakers from a distance who are not on the regular University institute staff, such certificate to be signed and sworn to by said treasurer in the ordinary form of accounts against counties.

History-Laws 1905, H. R. 173, sec. 4; in force July 1.