The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-09-14
NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

CHAPTER e.
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
ers; Providing for the Division of Counties Into commissioners
Districts; Providing for the Election of One Commissioner From
Each of Said Commissioners Districts.
Be 1t Enacted by the legislative Assembly of the State of Montana:
Section 1 There shall be submitted to the qualified electors Of the
State If Montana at the next general election to be held in said State
tuition of the State of Montana relating to n County commissioners.
That Section four of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State
of Montana, be amended 50 IS to read IS follows; .,ou ! o,oa.a
+brae Conntv Commissioners. whose term of office shall be six years;
provided that each county in the State of Montana shall be divided into
three Commissioner Districts, to be designated a Commissioner Dis
tricts, numbers one, two and three respectively
@The Board of County Commissioners shall in every county in the
State of Montana, at their regular session, on the first Monday IN
May, 1929, o IS soon thereafter as convenient or possible, not exceed
ing sixty days thereafter, meet and by and under the direction of the
District Court Judge or Judges of said county, divide their respective
counties into three Commissioner Districts Is compact n equal IN
population and are as possible, and number them respectively, one
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
sion of newly organized and created county, the said Board of
County Commissioners, by and under the direction of the District
Court Judge or Judges of said county, shall divide such new county
upon such division, the Board of County Commissioners shall
assign its members to such districts in the following manner; each
member of the said Board then in service shall be assigned % tn dis
trict in which he is residing II the nearest thereto; the senior member
l. the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
trct No. O. and the junior member of the board to be assigned to Com
District No 3; provided, that at the first general election of
No ! shall be elected for two Years. for No. 2 for four years. and for
No. 8, for six years, and bennaly thereafter there shall be one Com
elected to take the place of the retiring Commissioner who
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
of equalizing in population and are such Commissioner Districts,
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
said Commissioner Districts as changed, and such change in any Or all
he districts in such county shall become effective from and after fill
ng of such certificate; provided, however, that the boundaries of no
commissioners District shall at any time be changed in such a manner
to affect the term of office of any County Commissioner who has
elected, and whose term of office has not expired; and provided, t
urther, that no change in the boundaries of any Commissioner Dis
riot shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
ion. IL
"At the general election to be held in 1896, and thereafter at each
eneral election, the member o members of the Board to be elected,
hall be selected from the residents and electors of the district or dis q
in which the vacancy occurs, but the election of such member
r members of the Board shall be submitted to the entire electorate
member of said board, who has not resided in said district for at least F
wo years next receding the time when he shall become a candidate X
said office. Ia
when a vacancy occurs in the Board of County Commissioners Il
he Judge or Judges of the Judicial District in which the vacancy oc-fb
urs, shall appoint someone residing in such Commissioner District II
here the vacancy occurs, to fill the office until the next general cleo
on when a Commissioner shall be elected to fill the unexpired term e.
Section 2 The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and t
anvassed by such officials and in such manner Is is provided by law "
the counting and canvassng of the votes for members of Congress c
if a majority Of all votes cast at said election tor against said c
mendment shall be in favor of the amendment the Governor of the B
shall Immediately SO declare by public proclamation, and said
mendment shall be in full force and effect as a part of the Constitu- E
on from and after the date of said proclamation. is
Section 3 Separate official ballots shall be used at n general
ection to be held November 1928, which shall have printed thereon d.
lie words:
For the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Com c.
missioner. Districts.
Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to Com (s
missioner Districts,
And the eector shall designate his preference for either of the TT