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Revised Statutes of Missouri

Chapter 47

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 47

Townships, Removal of County Seats and Division of Counties

47.010County may be subdivided into townships — changes 47.020Description of townships to be recorded — where 47.030Removal of county seat — vote of people 47.040County seat commissioners to be appointed if proposition adopted 47.050County seat commissioners — appointment — notice of meetings 47.060Meeting of commissioners to find new county seat 47.070Oath of county seat commissioners 47.080County seat commissioners to select new county seat, where 47.090May purchase land 47.100Donation of money or buildings may be accepted 47.110Deed to be executed 47.120Report of county seat commissioners to circuit court — proceedings thereon 47.130Purchase money, how paid 47.140Proceedings where title is not approved 47.150Vacancy in county seat commission, how filled 47.160Compensation of county seat commissioner 47.170On removal of county seat, commissioner to be appointed 47.180Bond, where deposited, recorded 47.190Town may be laid off into lots 47.200Sales and reservations of lots 47.210Purchase money of lots, how secured 47.220Commissioner for removal of the county seat to make deed, when 47.230Proceedings on default of payment for lots 47.240Prosecuting attorney to prosecute actions 47.250Forfeited lots, how redeemed 47.260Accounts to be kept by commissioner for removal of the county seat — settlements 47.270Purchase money from sales of lots, how applied 47.280County commission to supervise commissioner for removal of the county seat 47.290Compensation of commissioner to find new county seat 47.300Notice of the holding of courts at new county seat 47.310Proceedings for dividing counties 47.320Upon division — payment of indebtedness 47.330Actions — where and how prosecuted in case of division of county 47.340Personal representatives of estate — conservators, settlements, where made 47.350Transfer of unsettled accounts of personal representatives or conservators, when — procedure