Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-10-27
Proposed Amendments
To Constitution.

ALS lu!tuNilS fTui usSt 4tiiSiu-
ments TO the Constitution OF the
State of North Dakota. having
passed the Eleventh Legislative As
sembly. will be submitted to the
Twelfth Legislative Assembly for
approval or rejection:
Proposed Constitutions Amendment.
Section ll2 of the constitution of
the state Of North Dakota is amend
ed so as to read as follows:
Section ll2. The legislative as
sembly shall provide by law for the
election of justices of the peace in
each organized county within the
state; but the number Of said JUS
tees to be elected in each organized
county shall be limited by law to
such number as shall be necessary
for the proper administration Of
justice. The justices of the peace
herein provided for shall have con-
current jurisdiction with the dis
trict courts and with all county
courts in all civil actions when the
amount in controversy, eNclus ive of
costs, does not exceed two hundred
dollars, and they shall have such
jurisdiction to hear and determine
cases of misdemeanor as may be
provided by law; but in no case
shall aid justices of the peace have
jurisdiction when the boundaries of
or title to real estate shall come in
question. The legislative assembly
shall rave power to abolish the office
of justice Of the peace and confer
that Jurisdiction upon judges Of
county courts or elsewhere.
Propo sed Constitutional Amendment.
Section 81 of the constitution Of
the state of North Dakota is amend
ed to read as follows:
Section o. The term Of Office
Of the judges of the supreme court,
except as in this article otherwise
provided, shall be ten years, begin
ming on the first Tuesday after the
| first Monday in January of the year
next following their election, and
they shall hold their offices until
their successors are duly qualified.
This section shall not be construed
as extending the term of office of
the judges serving at the time of
the adoption of this amendment, ex-
cept 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 receiving the highest num-
Der of votes at such election shall
hold his office for 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 re-
ceiving the lowest number of votes
at such election shall hold his office
| for a term of six wears.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Article 8, Section l5s, of the con-
stitution of the state of North Da-
kota is amended so as to read as fol-
llows:
Section 15S. holland shall be sold
for less than the appraised value.
and in no case for less than
ten dollars per acre. The pur-
chaser shall pay one-ffth of the
price in cash and the remaining
four-ffths as follows: One-fifth in
| five years, one-fifth on or before the
expiration of ten years. one-fifth on
or before the expiration of fifteen
years, and one-fifth on or before the
respiration of twenty years, with
interest at the rate of not less than
five per cent per anum, payable an
nually in advance; provided. that
when payments are made before due
they shall be made at an interest
paying date, and one years interest
in advance shall be paid on all money
so paid. All sales shall be held at
the county seat of the county in
which the land so sold is situated,
and shall be at public auction and
to the highest bidder, after sixty
days advertisement 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 subdivided shall be of
fered in tracts of one-quarter sec
ton, and those subdivided in the
smallest subdivision. Alllands desig.
mated for sale and not sold within
two years after appraisal shall be
reappraised before they are sold
No grant or patent for such lands
shall issue until payment is made
for the same; provided, that the
land contracted to be sold by the
state shall be subject to taxation
from the date of such contract. In
case the taxes assessed against any
of said lands for any year remain
unpaid until the first Monday in
October of the following year, Their
and thereupon the contract of sale
for sucn lands shall, If the board OF
university and school lands so deter.
mine, become null and void. Any
lands under the provisions of Section
1853 of the constitution of the state
of North Dakota that have hereto.
fore been sold may be paid for. ex.
cept as 70 interest. as provided here
in; provided, further, that any
school or institution lands that may
be required for townsite purposes
school house sites, church sites. Gem
etery sites, sites for other educa
tional or charitable institutions, pub
lie parks. fair grounds. public high
ways, railroad right-of-way, or TO,
other railroad uses and purposes
reservoirs for the storage Of water
for irrigation, drain bitches or irri
cation bitches, and lands that may
be required for any of the purposes
over which the right of eminent do
main NAV be exercised under the
constitution and the laws of the state
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