The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-18

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APPoRTIoNMENT OF DAKOTA
TERRITORY.
For the Election Of Delegates to Form
State Constitutions.
Be it remembered, that on this
twelfth day Of April, in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty. nine,
we, the undersigned, the governor,
the chief justice and the secretary
respec ively, Of the territory Of Dx-
kotx acting under the provisions of
an act Of congress approved February
twenty-secoAd, in the year eighteen
hundred aud eighty mine, and con
vened in session Tor the purpose of
apportioning delegates within the
Limits Of the two proposed states of
North Dakota and South Dakota,
according to the provisions Of the ac,
IT congress above designated, do
hereby after due elaboration and
consider alton, designate and consti-
tute the districts as hereinafter set
forth, for the purpose of the election
of delegates to conventions in order
to form constitutions for the two pro.
posed states Aforesaid.
The districts in the territory lying
north Of the seventh standard parallel
produced due west for the election Of
delegates to the convention that shall
assemble at Bismarck on the fourth
day of July in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-uine to form a
constitution tor the proposed state Of
North Dakota, shall be constituted
and are hereby designated as follows:
Io.wit.-
/. The townships Of Drayton, Lin.
coin, toilette, Pembina, Carlisle,
Midland, Hamilton, Bathgate, Nechc,
St.Jeseph and Walhalls, in the
county of Pembina shall constitute
the first district,
2. The townships of Akra, Cava-
lier, Thingvalla, Park, Lodema,
Beaulleu, Garda,, Crystal, Flora,
aud St. Thomas, in tho county OF
Pcmbina and the townships Of Mon
1rose, Alma aud Osnabrook, in the
county Of Cavalier shall constitute
the second district.
3. The Townships Of Olga, FREE
mont, Loan, Harvey, Hope, Langdon,
Lindon, Grant, School and Cypress,
together with all the remaining
portion Of Cavalier county, not here
lnbefore specified and the counties Of
Towner and kolette, shall constitute
the Third district.
4. The counties Of Bottineau,
McHenry, Ward, Pierce, Church
and Renville, shall constitute the
Fourth district.
5. The counties of Burleigh, Nc
lean, Mercer, Sheridan, Stevens, Gar.
field, Mountra!lle, Williams, Dunn,
Mckenzie, Wallace, Alfred, Buford,
Flannevy, Hettinger and Brown,
shall constitute the Fifth district,
6. The counties ofMorton, Oliver,
Stark and Billings, shall constitute
the Sixth district.
7. The counties of Egmons, Nc
intosh, Logan, kidder, Wells and all
that portion Of the county of Lamoure
lying west Of the west line of range
Sixty-three, west, shall constitute the
Seventh district.
8. The county of Dickey and
voting precincts numbered three,
four, six, seven, eight, twelve thir-
teen, fourteen, nineteen and twenty,
in the county Of Lamoure, shall con
stitute the Eighth district.
9. The county Of Ransom and all
the remaining portion Of the county
OF Lamoure, not included in districts
seven and eight above described,
shall constitute the Ninth district.
10. The county of Sargent and
the townships Of Glendale, Sheyenne,
West End, Dexter and Park, in the
county Of Richland, shall constitute
the Tenth district.
II. All the remaining Of the
county of Richland not included in
said Tenth district above described,
shall constitute the eleventh district.
-. The township Of Barnes, Reed
and Harwod in the county Of Cass,
shall constitute the Twelfth district.
ID. The townships Of Pleasant,
Stanley. Norman, Warren, Maple
ton, Raymond, Berlin, Gardner,
Wiser, Noble, Kenyon, Elm River,
Francis, flush River, Harmony, Cas-.
SETON, Durbin, Addison and Daven
port, in the county Of Cass, shall con-
stitute the Thirteenth district.
IA, Ali hat portion Of the
county OF Cass not contained in the
Twelfth and Thirteenth DISTRICTS, as
above defined, shall constitute TIA.
Fourteenth district.
Is. The county Of Barnes, shall.
constitute the Fifteenth district.
16. The county of Stutslhan, shall
constitute the Sixteenth district.
II. The counties Of Benson,
Eddy, Foster and all that portion OF
the county of Griggs, west Of the
west line Of range Fifty-nine, shall
constitute the Seventeenth district.
Is. All that portion of til.
county of Griggs not described in
said district number Seventeen,
above described, the county Of Steele
and the township Of Rosevllle, includ-