CHAPTER 32. [H. B. 160.] BOUNTY ON WOLVES. AN ACT to Amend Section One of Chapter Ninety-Six (96) of the Session Laws of 1890 of the State of South Dakota, Relating to the Killing of Wolves. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: AMENDMENT.] § 1. That Section one (1) of Chapter ninety-six (96) of the Session Laws of 1890, be amended to read as follows: The county commissioners of each county in the State of South Dakota shall offer a bounty of not less than one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) nor more than five ($5) dollars for each and every wolf killed within the limits of their county. § 2. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 6, 1893. CITIES. CHAPTER 33. [S. B. 197.] AID IN BUILDING COURT HOUSES. AN ACT Relating to Aid by Cities in Building Court Houses. § 1. CITIES MAY ASSIST HOW.] That whenever a county seat has [been] located at any incorporated city, and the county has no court house it shall be lawful for such city to assist such county in building the same. Provided, That the question of such assistance, and the amount of the same, shall first be submitted to and authorized by a majority of the electors of such city at an election called for that purpose. § 2. CITY COUNCIL MAY CAUSE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AND ISSUE BONDS.] When a city shall decide to assist in building a court house as provided in Section 1, the city council shall cause an assessment of all taxable property therein to be made, and thereupon may issue bonds in amounts of one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at not to exceed eight per cent per annum, for the amount of aid authorized in accordance with Section 1, and not to exceed the limit provided in the constitution. Such city shall have power to levy and collect taxes for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds, and they shall be executed under the hand of the mayor and city clerk, or auditor, and the seal of the municipality. § 3. CITY MAY CONTRACT WITH COUNTY FOR USE OF COURT HOUSE. ] The bonds, or proceeds thereof, shall be used in constructing, or in aiding in the construction of a court house in such city on land owned by the county in which the same is located, and in consideration of such aid the city may contract with the county for the use of the court house for city purposes. §4. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 4, 1893. DEDICATING CERTAIN CHAPTER 34. [S. B. 26.] PROPERTY IN SIOUX FALLS FOR AN ACT to Dedicate Certain Property in the City of Sioux Falls for Street Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. LANDS DEDICATED.] That a parcel of land thirtythree feet in width from the east side of that certain tract of land situated in the city of Sioux Falls, county of Minnehaha, and State of South Dakota, and belonging to the state, described as follows, to-wit: Commencing eighty feet due east of the southeast corner of block 35, of Brookings and Edmund's addition, at the intersection of Phillips Avenue and Second Street, thence running east ninety-two feet, thence running due north along the west side of land belonging to the Sioux Falls Water Power Company 586 feet, thence west ninety-two feet, and thence south 586 feet to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby dedicated and set apart for use of the public as a street, and not otherwise. Provided, that this dedication shall not take effect until the filing and recording of the final order of vacation of that part of Phillips Avenue lying on the west side of said above described tract of land. Nor until the same shall be deeded to the state by the original owners thereof. § 2. DUTY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL.] The attorney general is hereby authorized, directed and empowered for and in behalf of the state, to take such proceedings as may be necessary for the vacation of said Phillips Avenue on the west side of said property belonging to the state. § 3. EMERGENCY.] Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 7, 1893. CHAPTER 35. PROVIDING FOR THE DISOLUTION OF INCORPORATED CITIES. AN ACT Providing for the Disolution of Incorporated Cities. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. PETITION-DUTY OF CITY COUNCIL-CANVASS OF VOTES.] That when an application signed by one-half the legal voters of any incorporated city having less than one thousand inhabitants, shall be presented to the city council asking for a dissolution of the corporation, it shall be the duty of said city council to call a special election of the voters of said city by giving thirty days' notice thereof in a newspaper published in said city; or if there be no newspaper published in said city, then by posting said notice in three public places in said city, to determine whether such corporation shall be dissolved. The city council shall preside at such special election, and a poll shall be opened and said election be conducted as at any other corporation election, and the voters shall vote by ballots, said ballots having upon them either "For dissolution of the corporation" or "Against dissolution of the corporation." If the majority of all the votes given shall have thereon the words "For dissolution of the corporation." and such vote shall have been given by two-fifths of all the legal voters in said city, a statement of the vote signed by the mayor and attested by the city auditor shall be filed in the register of deed's office of the county; and such city shall, at the expiration of six months from the time of holding such election, cease to be a corporation, and the property belonging to such corporation, after the payment of its debts and liabilities, shall be disposed of in such manner as the majority of the voters of such city at any special meeting thereof may direct. Where an election is had un der this act, and a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be against the dissolution of said corporation, there shall be no other election held for the purpose of dissolving said corporation until five years after the date of said first election. § 2. CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS NOT INVALIDATED.] No such dissolution shall effect the rights of any person in any contract or agreement to which such corporation is a party. Approved March 4, 1893. CONDITIONAL SALES. CHAPTER 36. Wabber & Conklin 104 75 RELATING TO CONDITIONAL SALES. AN ACT Relating to Conditional Sales. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. TITLE IN WHOM VESTED.] All sales of personal property, where the possession is delivered to the vendee, on condition that the title shall remain in the vendor until the purchase money is paid, shall vest such title in the vendee as to third persons without notice of such conditions, unless such contract is in writing and filed with the register of deeds of the county where the vendee resides. § 2. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved February 20, 1893. CONSTITUTION. CHAPTER 37. [H. J. R. 71.] PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to Section Five, Article Nine, of the Constitution, Relating to the Superintendent of Schools. Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of South Dakota, the Senate Concurring: § 1. QUESTION SUBMITTED.] That at the general election to be held in the State of South Dakota on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1894, there shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the state, the following question: Shall Section five, Article nine of the constitution, be amended by inserting the words "and the superintendent of schools," after the word "court," in line seven of said section, so as to make the superintendent of schools eligible to hold said office for more than four years in succession. § 2. FORM OF BALLOT. ] The form of ballot to be used on said question shall be as follows: Shall Section five, Article nine, of the constitution, be amended so as to make the superintendent of schools eligible to hold said office for more than four years in succession? "Yes." "No." All electors voting in favor of such amendment, making the superintendent of schools eligible to hold said office for more than four years, shall erase the word "no," and all desiring to vote against said amendment shall erase the word "yes.' § 3. CANVASSING OF VOTES.] The votes upon such prop osition shall be counted, returned and canvassed in like manner as the votes for state officers, and if it shall appear from such returns and canvass of all the votes cast at such election that a majority of the electors voted against said amendment, said Section five, Article nine, of the constitution shall remain unchanged, but if it shall appear that a majority of the clectors voted in favor of such proposition, then Section five, Article nine, of the constitution, shall be amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. In each organized county, at the first general election held after the admission of the state of South Dakota into the union, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elected a clerk of the court, sheriff, county auditor, register of deeds, treas |