The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-26
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
The New system Under which
Townships Will be Operated.
blouse Roll No, &C.

ganization, to divide counties undsr
township organization into supervisor
districts, to define the rights, powers
and liabilities of towns, the duties
and compensation of the officers
thereof, and to provide for the cleo
ton Of town officers, and for the cleo.
ton of supervisors and the term Of
Office of the supervisors to be elected
and chosen in the several supervisor
districts into which the county is to
be divided when governed by town.
ship organization. introduced by i.
G. Burns Of Dodge county.
January s, 1895, read first time and
ordered to second reading; January
8, 1895, read second time and referred
to the committee on County Seats,
County Boundaries and Township Or
CARNATIONS.
BE it Enacted by the Legislature
Of the State Of Nebraska:
SEC. l. AT any general election
that may be held in the several coun-
ties in the state, the qualified voters
in any county may vote for or against
township organization in such county.
Sec. 2. The county commission.
ers, on petition Of Fifty or more legal
voters Of the county, shall cause to be
submitted to the voters Of the county
the question Of township organization
under this act, by ballot. to be written
or printed, or partly written Or partly
printed thereon, "for township organ
ization,' or, against township organ
i~zation, the votes to be counted, can.
vassed, and returned in like manner
as votes for county officers.
Sec. 3. If it shall appear by the
returns of said election that a major.
ity Of the legal voters of such county
voting at such election are for town
ship organization, then the county so
voting for its adoption shall be gov
erned by and subject to the provisions
of this act. on and after the meeting
of the supervisors of the county as
hereinafter provided.
SEC. 4. On the second Tuesday
after such election adopting township
organization in any county the county
commissioners of the county shall
meet at the county seat of such coun.
ty and shall forthwith. and within
not more than three days from aud af.
ter the first day of meeting, divide
such county into five districts to be
known as supervisor districts; such
districts to be divided as zeal as pos
sible with regular boundary lines and
in regular and compact form and
shape, and each district shall as neal
as possible have the same number of
inhabitants as any other district; but
no township shall be divided by any
such district; Provided that in coun.
ties having cities Of ever one thous
and inhabitants, and more inhabitants
than the average Outlying districts,
the county commissioners shall ado
enough contiguous territory to such
city so that the inhabitants in sucl
city and contiguous territory shall,
equal the inhabitants of two of the
other districts, and when so divided
such district in which such city is 10.
Gated shall elect two supervisors, tC
be elected at large within such dis
trict: Provided further that if /;
county is divided with such a city
district then and in such event thu
balance of the territory shall only be
divided into three districts, and sucf
city district shall receive a double
number as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 5. When the county has been
divided as in the preceding section
provided, the county commissioners
shall at once. upon such division. pro
coed to number such districts from
one to five and they shall, in ease of
city district as contemplated in tn
preceding section, give such city dis
trict two numbers, one odd and on,
even number.
Sec. 6. In the event any city hav
ing one thousand inhabitants or NOR,
shall have enough inhabitants to form
one supervisor district then such cit
shall constitute one district, or il