The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-02

dates and their have been looking the up
rather search of the records in the county clerks office
April 1882 the county commissioners, acting under
the direction divided the county three
dstricts upon the following lines
COMMISSIONS, District No. I-Commencng at the north.
east corner of county, running thence the
state range line between ranges As and 46,
thence running south line to the township line
between townships II and TO- thence running east on
township line the east state ne thence running north
on state line to place of beginning.
In order keep the matter straight, it we'll be
added here the first commissioner district shortly
divided into voting precincts Nos 1. and
with the exception of strip lying south of the
Fort Sedgwick Military reservation which included in
voting precinct No g. but in the first commissioner
district
Commissioner District No. 2-Commencng the
line the intersection of the line between
As and 49, running thence west state line to northwest
of the county, running thence south county line
the southwest of the county, running thence east
county line the range line between ranges As and 49,
running thence north line to place Of beginning
In the second commissioner district there made two
voting precincts all north of the river ecinct and
all south of the river to the county line precinct g.
Commissioner District No. 3-Comprised all the territory
south Of the township line between townships 10 and IL,
of the line between As and 49, This
district divided into two voting precincts Nos and
the dividing ne north and south, being the center of
range A.
Thus find that the beginning the lines defining the
boundaries of the districts and the lines separating
voting precincts nearly the Voting precincts and
making district precincts and constituting the
territory the second commissioner district while voting
and made up the whole of the third dis
trct ribbon the north end of running
into the first commissioner district.
Thus stood until February 1895, the Board of
passed resolution making voting precincts and
comprise the first district voting g.
and the commissioner district voting precincts
the third district In this resolution, will be observed the
boundaries of commissioner districts described by
and bounds but only by naming certain numbered voting
cnc This enough to understand at the time; but
April 1885, the Board of Commissioners changed the voting
boundaries Precincts and stood originally defined
No. off the change in and S. while the
lines extended north the include that
portion taken away from g.
Candidates for the campaign of 1897
The question raised that the of precinct did
extend the lines the third commissioner district This
prevailed and candidates finally taken from that portion
included in the original territory In order better
define the boundaries the Board of Commissioners January
1898 passed resolution making the third commissioner district
embrace all of voting precincts and Those precincts
that time included all of the territory south the
poro, precincts and The second district
include precincts d. being only territory
north of the and of the line between ~ and
If this action of the County Commissioners good still
effort been made change commits
sioner districts.
In july 1899, the County Commissioners changed the pre-
cine. lines of T. and 6: Precinct made
enc end of the county, The north end precinct