The Kanzas news., 1858-09-18

attached by another county for civil and |
military purposes, the county go attached |
shall not be deemed an election district; |
but the county commissioners supervi- |
sors of the county. to which such county |
is attached, shall have power, if it be deem |
ed necessary, to establish an election dis |
trict in in the county so attached.
Sec. 36. .sAIl voting shall be by ballot |
until the first day of November 1856. and |
from and after that time the voting shall be |
viVa Uoce.
The voting. therefore, for Representa-
tiyes, in the absence of any provision of
law, except the above section, viii necessa-
rily be Uiva voee.
The qualifications of voters as defined in
section 5, of the act of the Legislative As
sembly. approved February Goth, 1857, en-
titled '.An Act to define and establish the
Council and Representative Districts for the
Legislative Assembly, etand for other pur
poses''-page IS, section 5, requires six
months residence in the Territory previous
to voting.
COUNTY TREASURER.
Chapter 20, of the act passed at the last
session, approved February 19, 1858, en-
titled can Act establishing the Office of
County Treasurer, and prescribes the duties
thereof, provides:
Sec. l. s'That there shall be elected on
the second Tuesday in October, 1853, and
biennially thereafter, by the qualified cleo
tors in each organized county in this Terri
tory, one county treasurer for such county,
who shall hold his office for two years from
the first Monday of June next succeeding
| his election"
The act respecting counties and county
officers section 80, provides, for the cleo
ton of a county treasurer, and fixed the
election for the second March last.
Sec. 100, of the latter act authorizes the
Governor to fill vacancies in county offices.
Under these two provisions of that act,
county trrasurers have been elected or ap-
pointed in all the organized counties in the
Territory, and as the day of election has
been, by some mistake, fixed for the second
Tuesday instead of the first Monnay in Oe-
tober, and the term of Office does not COM
mence until June next, and as the offices
are now filed, it would seem the part of
wisdom to hold no election, but await fur
ther action on the subject.
| COUNTY AUDITOR.
Chapter 5, of the acts of the same ses-
sion, entitled can Act establishing the Of
fee of County Auditor, and defining the
duties thereof, provides:
Sec. 1. That there shall be elected by the
qualified voters of each organized county
in the Territory, on the Cd Tuesday in Oc-
tober biennially, one County Auditor for
each county, who shall hold his Office for
two years, from the first day of Merch next
succeeding his election.
Sec. of the same act, provides. that he
shall, by virtue of his Office, be Clerk of
the Board of County Commissioners, (Su-
pervisors.)
Sec. 90 of the act respecting Counties and
of the Board of Supervisors shall be elect
ed in each county of the Territory, for the
term of two years." and fixed the first cleo
ton on the 22d day of March last. Under
} this act, either by election or appointment,
!; all the counties are provided with Clerks of
. the Board of Supervisors; and as in most
of the counties they have been elected and
commissioned for two years, the same con-
flict will arise between the County Auditor
and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, as
there will between the two County Treasur
ers, it would seem to be unnecessary to
elect County Auditor, until after these
conflicts have been removed by legislative
action.
There seems to be some misapprehension
respecting elections for vacancies IN coun-
ity officers.
Sec. 11O, of the law respecting Counties
and County Officers, provides that some of
the officers then in existence, should hold
J their Offices until the general election in the
Il j L II
means until the first Monday in October,
1859, whereas by the terms of the act the
Officers hold their offices, by election, for
for the term of one year and two years; and
las by the terms of the Township law, pass
ed at the same session, the annual township
meetings are fixed for the fourth Monday in
March, at which they elect their supervisor,
who form the County Board, it seems plain
that it was the intention of the Legislative
Assembly in adopting these acts of other
States, to provide for the election of their
county and township officers in the month
of March, and wisely separate the election
of the civil from the political Offices of the
Territory.
These are all the officers to be cleo
ted on the first Monday in October
next. as well as the laws governing elections.
All other officers, except as above mention
ed, are to be elected in the month of March,
and all county officers, whether elected last
spring, appointed by competent authority or
continued in Office by operation of law, hold
their Offices until the fourth Monday in
i March next, when their successors are to
be elected. j. W. DENVER,
1 Governor.