Tombstone epitaph., 1914-03-22
Opinion On Elec-
 tion Of Supervisors

eu su'S co"iuk oeCse
 throughout the county in 6 neral su , not from sepsfste districts, is now hs as Tact. in sn opinion from the Al torney Generals office, upon reque' Of County Attorney Gilmore. sp which is nov on file with Clerk ksl ger oi the board of Supervisors. Tb opinion saye. in part:
 For this depsrtmens I have tn honor to acknc wledge the receipt ( your communication of the l7th ine relating to 6 construction O! Oh pte 5i o' the laws of the regular sessio of the First State Legislature. q amended, in resp'ct 10 the operation of that chapter upon the election 0 super,isor- at the general election q be held on the first Tuesday after ,h fret Monday in November of thi year.
 " The amendments to that act be came operative Oc' oher lst. 1913, snt had DO bearing upon the law in 90 "a as this o.ipion is concerned. Sectior of the act, and ss carried into th, Code of 1913, i. ss follows:
 = Sec l: The boards of supervisor of the seversl counties Of the stat' shsll have the power. and it shail b, their duty to meet st the count, seats i1 their respective counties tho frs, Mopdsy in September ne1t pre- ceding . general election for state and county officers, and divide their sev. eral counties into ,bree supervisors distIicts each, which districts shall bs numbered respectively, one, two end three. Said supervisors shall cefne the boundaries and l,mits Of each dis- trict. 90 far as is possible. and shall 1 make such d;vis,on in such manner tha, ihe said districts shall be ss rear. ly equal in population and assessed valuation Of broperty as is poe-ible Such districtipg of coun'ies may be submitted to the vote of the quali- fed els ctors Of the county wherein made, not less than two weeks. nor more than thirty dave, alter the ssii action Of the board Of supervisors Such elections shAll be conducted in all re-pects e. other referendum eiec- tions are cvnducted. .Sh9uld ,be m sjority vote ie cast for such district- ing, the county ehail thereafter cleo, supervisors within each district as hereiraiter provided"
 "l, will be observed that the re. diEtricting Of tie various counties Of the state into suLervisrral distr icts by he board of supervisors shsll be made on the first Monday in Sep- tent Der next precedir g the general election for sta'e aud county officers The first Monday in September. pre- ceding the next general election fslI- on the 7rb Of :hat mouth. Under tt ( provisions of the primary law. the primary 'o- the next general election will be held on the eighth Tuesday , prior to tbe next general election which falls on the third day Of No- vember. The next primary election therefore, will fsll on the Sth dsy O 1 September. It, therefore, appears {, that the next primary election will be 1, held one day after the date prescribed tor the .redistri,ting of the variou. counties of the state into supervisors districts. It is obviou., therefore tbat the bosrds Of supervisoss of ths various counties of the state canno, divide the counties into supervisors districts before the time pre- cribed b. las for the filing o. ponins,iop sper by candidates for boards ofsupervieo ID view O the fact ttat Section 5 o the primary law prescribes that per sons desiring to become . caodidss at . primary election sbslI file bi nomination petition not lees thal twenty nor more than sixty days be fore the primary election. In view ( this fact, it is the opinion of this de psr,ment that candidates for super visors in the various counties of th state will not be affected by Cbapte 5l. supra. but they should be nomin ated and elected from the county [ large, e has heretofore been tbe cu' tom. rather than from supervisor' districts.
 "After . careful consideration , ,hie matter it seems to us thst ti |. eaiest course to pursue is to lnomins
 candidates for bossds Of supervise
 without regard to supervisoral di
 s,icss. There could be DO resultiI
 evil from this plan although it is u' i. fortunate that she law does not pr vide that ,h, counties shall be Eedi
 t,ictsd into supervisorsl districts
 advance Of the msximum and min = mum dates preseribed for the filing
 nominstion papers st the next pl
 mary election.
 ''Th's opinion shoud not bs CO