The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-12
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
The New Law Cuts Down the
Board or supervisors
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law by cutting the board down to sew
en- members, to be elected By districts.
It will be the dutv Of the present
county supervisors to divide the
county into seven districts, each dis
trict to be as nearly divided as pos
sible with regular boundary lines and
in regular eand compact form and
shape, and each district shall have as
far as possible the same number OF in
habitants as any other district, but
no township shall be divided by any
such district. la counties having
cities Of more than 1000 inhabitants
and more inhabitants than the out
laying district, there shall DO added
enough contiguous territory to such
city so that the inhabitants in such
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
located shall elect two supervisors at
large. and the balance Of the territory
Of the county shall be divided so as
to create seven districts including
such city district.
The counties now governed by
township organization it shall be the
duty Of the county clerk to call q
special meeting Of the board Of super
visors within twenty days after act
takes effect, and meeting to take
place within ten days after the call is
issued. At such meeting Of the board
it shall at once proceed to divide
the county into supervisor districts,
Is before mentioned, and number the
same. After such division has been
made If there be more han one su-
pervisor 10 the district as so DIVIDED
or created, they, the supervisor
within such district, shall cast ballots
as 10 who Of their number shall be the
supervisor Of such district, and the
one selected shall be the supervisor Of
such district. As soon as the county
is divided in districts and the super.
visors ere assigned to their respective
districts, the board shall organize by
electiug one Of their number chair
mau.
The powers Of the township super.
visors shall cease from and after the
time when the county is divided into
districts and the new members are as
signed to their districts. The super
visors selected and appointed as be.
fore mentioned hold their respective
Offices until the next general election
following their selection or appoint
ment.
Supervisors are to be nominated and
elected by districts, and at the next
general election those elected from
the odd numbered districts shall hold
their Offices for one year and those
from the even numbered districts
shall hold their Offices for two years.
10 city or double districts the ballots
shall state which Of he..supervisors is
elected from the odd and which from
Ahs even numbered districts.
For the purpose Of ascertaining the
number Of inhabitants in the several
supervisor districts, the board of su-
peryisors shall ascertain the number
OF votes cast at the last preceding
general election held within the coun-
.ty and shall multiply the numbe r Of
votes 80 cast by five and the result
shall be taken as the whole number
Of inhabitants Of the county or any
part thereof and the supervisor dis.
.sricts shsll be divided upon that basis.
The town clerk, assessor and justice
of the peace shall constitute the town
board and has authority to approve
all township official bonds, The jus.
tice of the peace shall be ex ,oficio
overseer Of the poor, except in coun.
ties in which poor houses or poor farms
are established the care of the poor
shall be under the charge Of the board
Of supervisors. The tow board shall
meet at least three times a year and
at such other times as the interest OF
the town may demand, The several
townships have generally the same
powers and authority as have hereto
fore existed IN townships in counties