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NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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An Act Providing for the Submission to the Qualified Electors of the
State of Montana Of An Amendment to Section 4 Of Article XVI
Of the Constitution Of Montana, Relating to County Commission
es: Providing for the Division of Counties Into Commissioners
Districts; Providing for the Election OF One COMMISSIONS from
Each of Said Commissioners Districts n+n
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislative Assembly OF the State 81 Montana:
Section /. There shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the
State of Montana at the next general election to DC nela IN SAD STATE
the following amendment to Section -Four OF Article XVI of the constf
That Section four of Article XVI of the Constitution If the State
of Montana, be amended s. IS to read as follows: !,
Section 4 (of Article xvD. In each county there shall be elected
three County Commissioners, whose term of office shall oe SIX years;
three Commissioner Districts, to be designated a Commissioner Dis
trict sn numbers one one two and three 5espssti ssag in every mi in the
State of Montana. at their regular session, on the first Monday IN
May, 1929, or a soon thereafter s convenient o possible not exceed
ing sixty days tnerealter, meet ana ~ anu u"s a,u = th%r snaot,v
District Court Judge o Judges of said county divide their respec9fye
population and area as possible, and number them respectively, one
two and three, and when such division has been made there al re
filed in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of such county, a
certificate designating the metes and bounds Of the boundary lines OF
each of said Commissioners Districts. which certificate shall be signed
by said Judge or Judges; provided, also that at the first regular SEES
County Commissioners, by and under the direction of the District
Court Judge OF Judges of said county, shall divide such new county
into Commissioner Districts a. herein provided. amu
Upon such division, the Board OF County commissioners shal
assign its members to such districts in the following manner; each
member of the said Board then in service shall be assigned to the dis
trct in which he is residing 0 the nearest thereto; the senior member
of the Board in service to be assigned to the Commissioner District No
], the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
trict No {, and the junior member of the board to be assigned to Com
missioner District No 81; provided, that at the first general election OF
any newly created and organized county, the commissioner for District
o l. nal De eIecCeu Ir W years, lOr NO. q. ir Jul years, au iU
No 8, for six years, and bienna1y thereafter there shall be n Com
missioner elected to take the place of the retiring Commissioner, who
shall hold his office for six years.
"That the Board of County Commissioners by and under the direc-
ton of the District Court Judge or Judges of said County, for the pur-
pose of equaHzing in population and area such Commissioner Districts,
may change the boundaries of any o all of the Commissioner Districts
in their respective county by filing in the office of the County Clerk
and Recorder of such county, a certificate signed by said Judge or
Judges designating by metes and bounds the boundary lines of each of
sad COMMISSION DISTRICTS as changed, III sucn CHANG III H. r M ah
the districts in such county, shall become effective from and after fill
= % affect the term of office Of n COUNTY Commissioner who has
ben elected, and whose term of office a not expired; n provided
further, that 10 change in the boundaries of any Commissioner Dis
trict shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
"At the general election to be held in 1880, and thereafter at each
general election, the member OF members of the Board to be elected,
shall be selected from the residents and electors of the district o dis
or members of the Board shall be submitted to the entire electorate
of the county, provided, however, that n Q e shall be elected a a
two years next receding the time when he shall become a candidate
when a vacancy occurs in the Board of County Commissioners .
the Judge or Judges of the Judicial District in which the vacancy oc- q
ours, shall appoint someone residing in such Commissioner District
where the vacancy occurs, to fill the office until the mex general cleo i
Section 2 The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and e
eanvassed by such officials and in such manner as is provided by law
and if a majority of all votes cast at said election for and against said :,
shall be in favor of the amendment, the Governor of the \
shall Immediately SO declare by public proclamation, and said
shall be in full force and effect $ a part of the constitu-
Section 8 Separate official ballots shall! be used at the general
election Han, to be held November 1928 which shall have printed thereon
For the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Com
Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to Com
And the elector shall designate his preference for either of the
by making al tx before the proposition desired.
Section A. All Acts and parts of Acts In conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and
ftr its passage and approval q
Approved March 7, 1927. 20
United STATES OF AMERICA, -
STATE OF MONTANA.
l. John W. Mountjoy, Secretary of State of the State of Montana 70
o hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an
ct entitled: "An Act Providing for the Submission to the Qualified
of the State of Montana of An Amendment to Section 4 of Ar 10
iae XVI of the Constitution of Montana, Relating to County Commits
toner's; Providing for the Division Of Counties Into Commissioners
districts; Providing for the Election of One Commissioner From Each IA
f Said Commissioners Districts" IL
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have hereunto set my hand and
the Great Seal of the State of Montana, at Helena, the Capital. Is
uy H. 1925. JOHN W. MoUNTJOY, Secretary Of State. 2613t IT.