The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1883-03-30
The New County Commissioner
Law.

The following is the text of the bill
providing for five county commlsslon-
ers:
Section /. Than whenever one hum
dred legal voters of any organized
county of this territory petition tAe
county commissioners that tkey desire
five county commissioners tor said
county. and that said county be divided
into five commissioners districts, II IS
hereby made the duty of such county
commissioners to call the judge Of pro.
bate and county clerk together within
twenty (20) days. The county com
missioners. the Judge Of probate, and
the county clerk, provided said coma
missioners are not the commissioners
appointed in organizing the county,
are hereby constituted 3 commission,
and authorized to carry out the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec. ., Upen tho meeting of the
commission herein pro Fioe;' Tor, they
shall take and subscribe on o:.tl to
preform their duty impaItially ard
fer the best interest of such coanty,
and elect one Of their number chair
man and one secretary OF the con!aiS-
sion; their proceedings shalt i" -t-
duced to writing and signed by Ill The
members and flied with county clerk.
They shall consider the petition of
the legal voters. and ii satisfied that
ut least ore hundred legal voters Of
such county has petitiulti them, they
shall then decide by vote whether the
request be granted, and ii a majority
of such commission vote tor the grant
| ing eff such request, then such COM
mission shall proceed to Divide such
county into five districts, and SO dl-
vide that no two Of tiie tn"r acting
commissioners shall reside In one dis
trict. They shall then appoint 4
commissioner for each Of the two dis
| tricts that have 10 commissioner re-
siding therein, who snall hold their
office until the general OF annual elec-
ton and unit, thpir successors are
elected and qualified, the then acting
commissioners To- continue to hold
their respective offices until the term
for which they are elected expires.
The districts slial. nc Numbered one
tn, two (2), three (3), fear (4), and
five (5). The districts i: Nhieh no
a.tlng commissioner reside shall be
numbered fou ~ and five ~. And
at the genersi oi sanua. election the
commissioner for district number
four az shall I've elcated LOT ,No Years
and the commissioners iur district
number five Is, for three years. As
the terms of oiiic. of the Commlssl0n-
ers who have been elected tor appoint
ed to fill a NacaacN OF al e!ected com
missioner expires. their successors
shall lie clectet. for tsle term Of three
wears, each Of " nom Shall pe resi-.
dent Of the district h is 10 represent
and to be sotee. iet oE.s hy the elect
ors of said districts.
Sec 3. All acts OF p..rts cf acts III.
consistent with this act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effee
and be in force 1lo,a ald after It!
passage and approval.
Approved Mach ,.
The bill passed tie house US above
but was amended III the council st
that it's provision should take effect At
once, without tAs petition provided III
Section l. in tie Counties OF Iass
Grand Forks, .nlton. and one O
two others. The amendment Wa
sconcurred in by the house and Il:
amended was approved by the COVER
nor and is now III force.
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