The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-15

courts IN all civil actions when the
amount in controversy, exclusive of
costs, does not exceed two hundred
dollars, and they shall have such juris-
diction to hear and determine cases of
misdemeanor as may be provided by
law, but in no case shall said justices
of the peace have jurisdiction when
the boundaries Of or title to real estate
shall come in question. The legista-
tive assembly shall have power to
abolish the office of justice of the
peace and confer that jurisdiction up
on judges of county courts or else
where.
Pr0p0sedC Constitutional Amendment.
Section 81 of the constitution of the
state of North Dakota is amended to
read as follows:
Sectiont 81. The term of Office of the
judges of the supreme court, except as
in this article otherwise provided,
shall be ten years, beginning on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in January of the year next following
their election, and they shallholdtheir
offices until their successors are duly
qualified. This section shall not be
construed as extending the term of Of
flee of the judges serving at the time
Of the adoption of this amendment,
except as herein provided. The terms
of office Of the judges of the supreme
court elected at the general election in
1910 shall be as follows: The one re-
ceiving the highest number of votes at
such election shall hold his Office for
a term of ten years; the one receiving
the next highest number of votes at
such election shall hold his Office
for a term of eight years, and the one
receiving the lowest number of votes
at such election shall hold his office
for a term of six years.
ProposedC Constitutional Amendment.
Article 8, section l5S of the consti-
tuition of the State of North Dakota, is
amended SO as to read as follows
Section l58. No land shall be sold
for less than the appraised value, and
in no case for less than ten dollars
per acre. The purchaser shall paw
one-ffth of the price in cash and the
remaining four-fifths as follows: One
fifth in five years, one fifth on or be-
fore the expiration of ten years, one
fifth on or before the expiration of
fifteen years, and one-ffth on or be-
fore the expiration of twenty years,
with interest at the rate of not less
than five per cent per annum, payable
annually in advance; provided, that
when payments are made before due
they shall be made at an interest pay
ing date, and one years. interest in ad-
vance shall be paid on all money so
paid. All sales shall be held at the
county seat of the county in which
the land to be sold is situated, and
shall be at public auction and to the
highest bidder, after sixty days'adver-
tisement of the same in a newspaper of
general circulation in the vicinity of
the land to be sold, and one at the
seat of government. Such lands as
shall not have been especially sub-di-
vided shall be offered in tracts of one
quarter section, and thoseisub-divided
In the Sm911ocf c1,l lio ~ ~.-1-
designated for sale and not oldwithin
two years after appraisal shall be re-
appraised before they are sold. No
grant or patent for such lands shall is
sue until payment is made for the
same; provided, that the land con.
tracted to be sold by the state shall
be subject to taxation from the date
OF such contract. In Ease the taxes
assessed against any of said lands for
any year remain unpaid until the first
Monday in October of the following
year, then and %thereupon the contract
OF sale for such lands shall, if the
board of university and school lands
SO determine. become null and void.
Any lands under the provision of Sec
ton 158 of the constitution of the state
Of North Dakota that have heretofore
been sold, may be paid for, except as
to interest, as proved herein; pro-
vided, futher, that any school orinsti-
tuition lands that may bel required for
townsite purposes, shcool house sites,
] church sites, cemetery sites, sites for
other educational, or charitablein stiu-
tions, public parks, fair ground, public
highways, railroads right of way, or
for other railroad uses and purposes,
reservoirs for the storage of water for
irrigation, drain bitches or irrigation
bitches, and lands that may be re-
CURED for any of the purposes over
which the right of eminent domain
may be exercised under the consti-
tuition and the laws of the state of
North Dakota, may be sold under the
provision of this section, and shall be
paid for, principal and interest,in full.