The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-03-03
COMMISSIONER Dis
TRICT BOUNDARIES

AS briefly stated in Thursdays Sill
yer State Senator Bradshaw has in
troduced a bill in the upper house of
the Legislature dividing Humboldt
county into three commissioner dis
triets. District No. comprises that
part of the county lying north of a
line drawn across the county from
east to west a short distance south of
Willow Point; No. 2 embraces all that
portion of the county lying south of
that boundary and a line drawn east
and west across the county just south
of Humboldt House; No. includes
the south end of the county. The full
text of the act follows:
"An Act to establish Commissioner
districts in the county or Humboldt,
and providing for the election there
from of members of the Board of
County Commissioners.
"The People of the State of Nevada,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. The county of Humboldt
is hereby divided into three Commits
sioner districts, as follows:
"All that portion of Humboldt coun-
ty lying north of the south boundary
of townships thirty-nine (39) north
from the east to the west boundary
lines of the county, according to rec
ognized surveys, shall be known as
district No. one ~.
Of
ty lying between the south boundary
line of townships thirty-nine (39)
north and the south boundary line of
townships thirty-two (32) north and
extending from the east to the west
boundary lines of the county, accord
ing to the recognized surveys, shall be
known as district No. two ~.
All that portion of Humboldt county
lying south of the south boundary line
of townships thirty-two (32) north
and extending from the east to the
west boundary lines of the county, ac-
cording to the recognized surveys,
shall be known as district No. three
(3).
Sec. 2. At the general election held
in said county, 1918, long term Com
missioner shall be elected from said
district No one "a and short term
Commissioner from said district No.
three (3); at the general election held
in said county in 1920 a long term
Commissioner shall be elected from
said district No. three (3) and a
short term Commissioner from said
district No. two (2), and thereafter
in each district a short term Commits
sioner shall. in every instance, be
elected to succeed a long term Com
missioner, and a long term Commis-
sioner to succeed a short term Com
missioner to the end that each said
district shall. at all times, be repre-
sented on said Board of County Com
missioners by one member from said
district Any and all vacancies oc-
curing shall be filled by the appoint
ment of a qualified person from the
district in which the vacancy occurs.
"Sec. 8. The County Commission
ers of Humboldt county shall estab-
lish election precincts within said
county in such a manner that each
election precinct shall be wholly with
in some one of the Commissioner dis
tricts, and the establishment of any
election precinct lying partly in two
or more Commissioner districts shall
b. wholly null and void.
Sec T. Nothing in this act shall bC
so construed TO increase the number
Of County Commissioners in the coun
ty of Humboldt, as now fixed by law
but is enacted for the purpose of di
viding Humboldt county into three
Commissioner districts and to provide
for the election of one COMMISSIONS
from each district by the qualified vot
ers thereof respectively, and not BY
the electors at large throughout the
county.
Sec. s. All acts and parts of act:
in conflict herewith are hereby re
pealed."