The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-09-02
Dated this 9th day of August, 1910.
[Auditor's] WIN. w. FELSON,
II Seal Go. Auditor, Pembina
County, North Dakota.
Proposed Amendments

North Dakota, having passed the Elev
enth Legislative Assembly, will be sub
mitted to the Twelfth Legislative Assem-
bly, for approval or rejection:
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL. AMENDMENT
Section liz of the constitution of thu
state of North Dakota is amended so a.
to read as follows:
Section liz. The legislative assembl,
shall provide by law for the election o
justices of the peace in each organized
county within the state, but the mum
Der of SAID justices to be elected IN eacf
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 pro-
vided for shall have concurrent jurisdic.
ton with the district courts and with all
county courts in all civil actions when
the amount in controversy, exclusive of
costs, does not exceed two hundred dol
lars, and they shall have such jurisdic-
ton to hear and determine cases of mis-
demeanor 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 ques-
ton. The legislative assembly shall
have power to abolish the Office of JUS
tice of the peace and confer that juris-
diction upon judges of county courts or
elsewhere.
Section 81 of the constitution of the
state of North Dakota is amended to
read as follows:
Section 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 Janu-
airy of the year next following their cleo
ton, 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, except as herein pro-
vided. The terms of Office of the judges
OF the supreme court elected at the gen.
eral election of 1910 shall be as follows:
The one receiving the highest number
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 Of
flee for term of eight years; and the
one receiving the lowest number of votes
at such election shall hold his Office for
term of six years.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Article 9, section 15S Of the constitu-
ton of the state of North Dakota is
amended so as to read as follows,
Section 158. 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 pay one-fifth of the
price in cash and the remaining four
fifths as follows: One-fifth in five years,
one-fifth on or before the the expiration
of ten years, one-ffth on or before the
expiration of fifteen years, and one fifth
on or before 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
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 to be 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 govern
ment. Such lands as have not been
especially sub-divided shall be offered in
tracts Of one-quarter section, and those
sub divided in the smallest sub division,
All lands designated 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 subjec
to taxation from the date Of such con
tract. In case the taxes assessed
} against any Of such land for any yea
, Iremain unpaid until the first Monday ii
!, October Of the following year, then an,
thereupon the contract Of sale for sucl
!, lands shall, il the board ~ universit,
!, and school lands 20 detsrmine, becom
,inull and void. Any lsnds under th
provisions ofsection l6s Is tho constitu
ton frths stats of N0Fth Dakote tia
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