cast Majority to decide. are for the point named in the petition, then that place shall be the county seat; otherwise the county seat shall. remain as before.
Returns and canvass same as in voting for county officers.Sect. 3. The votes for and against the removal or location of the county seat shall be returned and canvassed in the same manner as the votes for county officers.
No county seat removed in any other manner.Sect. 4. No county seat, in any county in this territory, shall be removed in any other manner than that prescribed in this act, except by the amendment or repeal of this act.
If county seat removed, officers to remove within twenty days.Sect. 5. If, on canvassing the votes, a majority of them are found to be in favor of removal, then all the county officers — who are required to hold their offices at the county seat-shall, within twenty days after such canvass, move their offices to the point so elected as the county seat.
Take effect, when.Sect. 6. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
- Approved April 24, 1862.
CHAPTER 21.
AN ACT NAMING AND LOCATING THE COUNTY SEAT OF COLE COUNTY.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Named victoria.Section 1. That the county seat of Cole county be, and the same is hereby named Victoria.
Located, where.Sect. 2. That the county seat of Cole county be, and the same is hereby located on the claim of Joseph Chapillion, on section 10, in township 89 north, range 48 west of the fifth principal meridian.
Take effect, when.Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and approval of the governor.
- Approved May 7, 1862.
