Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1901-04-19

AN ACT to provide for the number Of
county commissioners In counties Of
n ops As! STATE 4bo Gon. a. 1l nS az ie a. 20 an ARE area
and having at least seventy-f1ve thou
sand .(5,O0W inhabitants, and to author
1ze' the board Of county commissioners
Of such counties to redistrict the same,
n to confer upon such board certain
powers and duties in relation thereto.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State OF Minnesota:
= Section 1. Each and every county Of
the State of Minnesota, containing at
least, five thousand 10000 square miles
and having, at least q population of sew
according to the last completed United
States or state census, shall be entitled
to a board of county commissioners,
which shall consist Of not less than five
or more than seven members.
Sec. 2. Whenever, there shall be pre-
sented to the board of county commits
sioners of any such county, at any regu-
not less than twenty-five (25) per cent
Of the legal voters of said county, accord
ing. to the vote thereof at the last pre-
board of f1 County commiss Reasasls Of Of said iis
county be increased from its then present
membership. which petition shall con-
tain what is hereinafter required and
nave attached thereto the affidavit or
afidavits of the person or persons who
procured the signatures to such petition,
to the effect that the signers were, when
C1Sy SiS III Sdl1iG, dCludl IGS1O61uLS
and legal voters of said county, the
board of county commissioners thereof
shall at once tile the same, and i'm
3tlon a'a asaa, n ifsft b a.d anaai Is aco aaIa Res1 e
laws aid board shall. within sixty 5(601
days after such filing. increase the mem
bership Of said board to the number
stated in sand petition, and redistrict and
divide said county into a corresponding
number of districts, In the manner pro-
vided by. law, and said board, in such
redistr1ctirtg, shall use as the basis there
of the last preceding census, either United
States OF state.
Sec. 8. such petition shall specify the
number of members of the board Of
posed to increase and the number Of COM
~missioner's districts into which said coun-
ty shall be divided, and such petition
may be in the following form:
T the board of county commissioners
of Minnesota:
The undersigned, legal voters Of the
Minnesota, pray that the board of com
missioners Of said county be increased
to ........... members, n that said
county be redistricted and divided into
s.......... commissioners districts. These
petitioners therefore pray that the pro-
ceedings required by law to increase said
board of county commissioners and ere
complied with.
Dated this ...... day Of ......., A. D.
19.... e -
(Here insert of slgners.)"
Sec. 4. Immediately upon such redis-
tricting of any such county, the board Of
county commissioners thereof shall APP
point a commissioner for ZACH additional
district for which there shall then be no
commissioner, who shall be a resident CT
the district for which he is appointed,
and shall reside therein during his con-
tinuance in Office, and such commission
er, so appointed as aforesaid, Dol quail
flying as required by law, shall hold and
continue In office until the. next general
election and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified. -
Sec, s. At the next general election a,
commissioner shall be elected for each
additional district heretofore created, &C
cording to the provisions hereof, and, if
district, the commissioner therefor shall
be elected and shall hold Office for UGH
term as shall be co~ter1ninous with the
terms of office of the commissioners from
the other even numbered districts of said
county, and thereafter the commits
sioner from such new ever numbered
district snail be elected for four
numbered district, the commlss1oner
therefor shall be elected n shall hold
Office for such term as shall be cotermi-
nous with, the terms of office of the COM
missioners from the other odd numbered
districts OF said county, and thereafter
the commissioner from such new. odd
numbered district shall be elected for
four years.
Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts In
consistent with the. provisions hereof are
hereby repealed.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved Feb. ~, l9ol