CHAPTER 38. [S. J. R. 16.] PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing and Agreeing to an Amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota and Submitting Such Amendment to a Vote of the People. Be it Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives Concurring Therein: § 1. QUESTION SUBMITTED.] That the following amendment to the constitution of the state of South Dakota is hereby agreed to, and which amendment, when approved and ratified, shall become part of the constitution as Article twentyseven (27) thereof. ARTICLE XXVII. § 1.] The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors shall be under exclusive state control and shall be conducted by duly authorized agents of the state who shall be paid by salary and not by commissions. All liquors sold shall be first examined by a state chemist and the purity thereof established. § 2. LEGISLATURE TO PROVIDE FOR ENFORCEMENT.] The legislature shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this article and provide suitable and adequate penalties for the violation thereof. CHAPTER 39. PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing and Agreeing to an Amendment to Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, and to Provide for Submitting Such Amendment to a Vote of the People. Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate Concurring: § 1. AMENDMENT.] That Section 1 of Article 3 of the constitution of the state of South Dakota be amended so as to read as follows: § 2. QUESTION SUBMITTED.] The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a legislature which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives, except that the people expressly reserve to themselves the right to propose measures, which measures the legislature shall enact and submit to a vote of the electors of the state, and also the right to require that any laws which the legislature may have enacted shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state before going into effect, (except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, support of the state government and its existing public institutions. Provided, that not more than five per centum of the qualified electors of the state shall be required to invoke either the initiative of the referendum. This section shall not be construed so as to deprive the legislature or any member thereof of the right to propose any measure. The veto power of the executive shall not be exercised as to measures referred to a vote of the people. This section shall apply to municipalities. The enacting clause of all laws approved by vote of the electors of the state shall be, "Be it enacted by the people of South Dakota." The legislature shall make suitable provisions for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. SUBMISSION.] This amendment shall, if agreed to, by a majority of the members elect of each house of the legislature, be submitted to a vote of the people at the next general election. CONTRACTS. CHAPTER 40. [H. B. 74.] SCHOOL DISTRICT CONTRACTS. AN ACT to Make Contracts Made by School District or Civil Township Officers Except at Regular or Special Meetings, Void. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. CONTRACTS HOW MADE.] All contracts hereafter made by any civil township officer or supervisor in his capacity as such officer, except contracts made at a regular or special meeting of the civil township board, shall be deemed to be unlawful and not binding upon such civil township. § 2. REPEAL.] All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved February 13, 1897. COUNTIES. CHAPTER 41. [H. B. 244.] CHANGING AND DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES OF STANLEY COUNTY. AN ACT Changing and Defining the Boundaries of Stanley County. § 1. SUBMITTED TO VOTERS.] At the general election in 1898 the question of changing and defining the boundaries of Stanley county as hereinafter provided in this act, shall be submitted to the voters of said Stanley county, and if a majority of the votes cast in the said county of Stanley shall be in favor of changing and defining the boundary lines of said Stanley county as in this act hereinafter provided, then the boundaries of said Stanley county shall be made as in this act hereinafter provided, and shall include all the territory that shall be included in the boundaries hereinafter stated. § 2. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO GIVE NOTICE OF ELECTION.] The board of county commissioners of Stanley county at the said general election in 1898, shall give due notice that the question of changing and defining the boundaries of Stanley county will be submitted to the voters of said county, and said notice shall contain a description of the boundaries as in this act hereinafter described, and the proposition shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form: "Shall the boundaries of Stanley county be changed as described in this act, giving in said notice the title and date of approval of this act. § 3. BOUNDARIES GIVEN.] If, at the said election, a majority of the voters of the county of Stanley as it is now bounded, shall vote for a change in the boundary lines of said Stanley county, then the boundary lines of Stanley county shall be as follows: Commencing at the junction of the Big Cheyenne and Missouri rivers; thence westerly up and along the main channel of the Big Cheyenne river to its intersection with the township line between ranges seventeen (17) aud eighteen (18) east of the Black Hills meridian; thence south along said township line to White river; thence east along the main channel of White river to the township line between ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) east of the Black Hills meridian; thence north along said township line to the township line between townships two (2) and three (3) north of the Black Hills base line; thence east along side [said] township line to the Missouri river; thence northerly up and along the center of the main channel of the Missouri river to the point of beginning. § 4. RECORDS TO BE KEPT.] If the boundary lines of said Stanley county shall be changed as in this act provided, then all records that have been kept by any officers of Stanley county for any unorganized county that may have heretofore been attached to said Stanley county shall become the records. of Stanley county, and the register of deeds shall index all deeds or other instruments now by law required to be indexed, in the proper index books of Stanley county, with proper reference to the books where such instruments may have been recorded. $ 5. REPEAL.] That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 2, 1897. CHAPTER 42. CHANGING AND DEFINING BOUNDARIES OF MEADE COUNTY. § 1. QUESTION SUBMITTED.] At the general election in 1898, the question of changing and defining the boundaries of Meade county, as hereinafter provided in this act, shall be submitted to the voters of said Meade county, and if a majority of the votes cast in the said county of Meade shall be in favor of changing and defining the boundary lines of said Meade county as in this act hereinafter provided, then the boundaries of said Meade county shall be made as in this act hereinafter provided and shall include all the territory that shall be included in the boundaries hereinafter stated. §2. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO GIVE NOTICE.] The board of county commissioners of Meade county, at the said general election in 1898 shall give due notice that the question of changing and defining the boundaries of Meade county will be submitted to the voters of said county, and said notice shall contain a description of the boundaries as in this act hereinafter described, and the proposition shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form: Shall the boundaries of Meade county be changed as described in this act, giving in said notice the title and date of approval of this act. § 3. BOUNDARY.] If. at the said election, a majority of the voters of the county of Meade, as it is now bounded, shall vote for a change in the boundary lines of said Meade county, then the boundary lines of Meade county shall be as follows: Commencing at the junction of the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers; thence along the center of the main channel of the Big Cheyenne river to the intersection of the western boundary line of the Cheyenne Indian reservation, thence north along the said western boundary line of the said Cheyenne Indian reservation to the intersection thereof with the third standard parallel north; thence west along the said third standard parallel north, to the township line between ranges nine (9) and ten (10) east of the Black Hills meridian; thence south along said township line to the intersection of the township line between townships seven (7) and eight (8) north of the Black Hills base line, thence west along said township line, which is also the present boundary line between Meade and Butte counties, to the present boundary line between Lawrence and Meade counties; thence south along the present boundary line with its angles between Meade and Lawrence counties to the boundary line between Pennington and Meade counties, thence east along the present boundary line between Meade and Pennington counties to the Cheyenne river; thence along the main channel of the Cheyenne river in a north-easterly direction to the place of beginning. § 4. RECORDS BY WHOM KEPT.] If the boundary lines of said Meade county shall be changed as in this act provided, then all records that have been kept by any officers of Meade county for any unorganized county that may have heretofore been attached to said Meade county, shall become the records of Meade county, and the register of deeds shall index all deeds or other instruments now by law required to be indexed, in the proper index books of Meade county, with proper reference to the books where such instruments may have been recorded. § 5. REPEAL.] That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 3, 1897. |