CHAPTER 8. (S. B. 120). LEGALIZING TRANSFERS, FORCLOSURES, ETC., IN COUNTIES DIVIDED. AN ACT Entitled, An Act Legalizing Real Estate Transfers, Foreclosures, and Redemptions, and the Acts of Public Officers Relating Thereto in Counties that have been Divided. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. All foreclosure sales made by advertisement and sale which were commenced in any county in which a vote on the question of division has been ordered by the Board of County Commissioners thereof, if commenced and the first publication thereof is made before the election of officers for the new county created by the division aforesaid, are hereby legalized and the officers of the old county were fully empowered to complete. the sale at the time and place fixed in the notice of sale in all respects the same as if the land was then in his said county, provided that in making report of sale he shall insert the name of the new county, and further the said certificate of sale shall be recorded in the county in which the land is situated at the time of the sale. § 2. All acts of Sheriffs, register of deeds and other officers in connection with redemption from foreclosure sales, extension of time, redemption and the recording of instruments of whatsoever kind and whether the name of the county is given as that of the original or the new county at any time between the date of the election at which the county was divided or up to the date of the canvass of the vote for county officers of the new county such acts of officers, proceedings and names of the county if otherwise correct are hereby fully legalized and for the purpose of carrying out the intent of the said instruments shall be construed in all respects to be in the proper county. § 3. Emergency] There being much uncertainty as to titles on transfers between the date of election and the time when the division of new counties becomes effective, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval. § 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 1, 1917. CHAPTER 9. (S. B. 215) LEGALIZING THE ORGANIZATION OF CERTAIN COUNTIES. AN ACT Entitled, An Act Validating the Organization of Counties in Certain Cases. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota : § 1. The organization of every county in this state which was in existence and exercising the powers and functions of a county at the date of the admission of the state of South Dakota to the Union, is hereby leglized and made valid notwithstanding the fact that the records of such organization have been lost or destroyed. § 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 8, 1917. CHAPTER 10. (S. B. 279) LEGALIZING ACTS OF GREGORY COUNTY IN BUILDING BRIDGE. AN ACT Entitled, An Act To Legalize the Action of the Board of County Commissioners of Gregory County, South Dakota in Contracting for and Building a Bridge Across Ponca Creek in said County. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. That the action of the board of county commissioners in contracting with the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha, Nebraska, and authorizing and building a bridge across Ponca Creek between section twenty and twenty-one (20-21) township ninety-five (95) range seventy (70) west of the fifth principal meridian in Gregory County at the cost of two thousand ($2000) dollars be and the same is hereby legalized and declared in full force and effect, notwithstanding that the commissioners neglect ed to comply with certain conditions of the statute in entering into such contract and in building said bridge. § 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 8, 1917. Agriculture CHAPTER 11. (S. B. 195) RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK. AN ACT Entitled. An Act Amending Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, of Chapter 11 of the Session Laws of 1915. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: § 1. That Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of Chapter 11 of the Session Laws of 1915 be, and the same hereby are amended to read as follows: Section 3. County Organization.] For the purpose of perfecting the county organization for conducting such agricultural extension work, it shall be lawful for fifty or more freeholders residing in at least one-third of the congressional townships of any county in this state and desiring to co-operate in said extension work, to organize and incorporate an association to be known as the. County Farm Bureau, for the purpose of promoting agricultural extension work and -encouraging the betterment of agriculture and things pertaining thereto, including home economics. County agricultural extension associations heretofore organized under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the Session Laws of 1915 shall hereafter be known as farm bureaus of the respective counties where so organized. The persons so associating themselves together shall pay a membership fee of one dollar ($1.00) each, which sum shall be paid into the treasury of said association, and shall file in the office of the Secretary of State articles of incorporation stating the name of the corporation, the purpose for which organized, and the names of the officers and directors of the corporation, which officers and directors shall act as such until the next general annual meeting for the election of directors and officers thereof. Upon the filing of such articles of incorporation, and the payment of a filing fee in the sum of three dollars ($3.00), the Secretary of State shall issue to such association a certificate of incorporation, stating the name of such corporation, the names of the persons constituting the officers and directors thereof, and that it has complied with the provisions of this Act. A cerfied copy of the corporate certificate and the articles of incorporation shall be filed without fee or charge therefor, with the County auditor of each county in which such corporation is organized. The directors of such corporation shall consist of not less than five and not more than seven members to be elected from the membership thereof on the first Tuesday of December in each year, and the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, shall be elected by the board of directors, but the secretary need not be a member of said board. The board of directors of the county farm bureau shall select, with the approval of the state director, a county agricultural agent, and any necessary assistants, who shall receive such Counties as shall be mutually agreed upon. The county farm bureaus of two or more counties may unite in the employment of one county agent to take charge of agricultural extension work in the respective counties so uniting, under the same regulations as are provided herein, and the expense of such work shall be paid by and from the funds provided by such counties, upon such apportionment between such Counties as shall be mutually agreed to. Section 4. State Director-Agricultural Courses.] It shall be the duty of the state director of agricultural extension work o require at least a four days better farming school or demonstration course and any one, two or three day meetings, which he may deem necessary, to be held each year in every county in the state where there is no county agricultural agent and he' may draft from said county agents, subject to the approval of the United States Department of Agriculture and County Farm Bureau, those necessary to assist in conducting such agricultural courses, who shall co-operate with any special experts provided by the state director: the above agricultural work taking the place of the work heretofore conducted as farmer's institutes. in counties where no provision has been made for a county agricultural agent the county commissioners thereof are hereby authorized to appropriate a sum not to exceed Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars as may be needed for co-operation with the state director in the conduct of demonstration courses and other meetings conducted by him in said county. Section 5. County Agents-Agricultural Courses]. The county agricultural agent shall devote his entire time to agricultural extension work and allied branches, including home economics in said county, as outlined by the county association, the state director and the United States Department of Agriculture, and each year the state director may, for periods aggregating not to exceed four (4) weeks in all, detail said county agent to assist in conducting better farming schools or demonstration courses; provided that said county agents shall receive no additional salary for such services, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary hotel and traveling expenses. Section 6. County Appropriation] After the incorporation of any such farm bureau under the provisions of this act, and the filing with the county auditor of a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of said association, and upon written petition of said association, signed by its president or vice-president and its secretary, setting forth therein a certified copy of the resolution of the board of directors authorizing such petition, and asking for an appropriation of a sum of money, which sum shall not exceed a sum equal to One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each congressional township in such county, providing, however, that any county having an area of thirty congressional townships or less may appropriate a sum not exceeding Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to appropriate annually such an amount as specified in the petition, from the general funds of the county, and said county commissioners are hereby authorized to make such appropriation out of the general fund of said county. In case said board of county commissioners fails or refuses to make the appropriation as above specified, and a petition shall have been filed with the county auditor of such county thirty days before the following general election, signed by one hundred or more free holders of the county, praying that said appropriation be submitted to the electors of the county, then it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of such county to submit to the electors, at the next general election, the proposition of whether said appropriation shall be made for agricultural extension work in such county as specified in said petition by such |