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Full control over the matter of the organization of new counties in the Kansas is, by its constitution, article 9, § 1, given to the legislature of the state, which has power not only to organize a county in any manner it sees fit, but also to validate by recognition any organization already existing, no matter how fraudulent the proceedings therefor were.

When a legislature has full power to create corporations, its act recognizing as valid a de facto corporation, whether private or municipal, operates to cure all defects in steps leading up to an organization, and makes a de jure out of what was before only a de facto corporation.