The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-10-12
NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

CHAPTER Y.
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 /. There shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the
State of Montana at the next general election to be held in said State
the following amendment to Section -Four OF Article XVI Of the constr
tuition of the State of Montana relating to the County Commissioners
of Montana, be amended so IS to read a follows:
Section 4 (f Article xvD- In each county there shall be elected
three County 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
trhts, 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 o Judges of said county divide their respective
counties into three Commissioner Districts as compact and equal in
population and area IS possible, and number them respectively, one
two and three, and when such division has been made, there shall be
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
sion of any newly organized and created county, the said Board of
County Commissioners, by and under the direction of the District
Court Judge o Judges of said county, shall divide such county
into Commissioner Districts a herein provided
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
of the Board in service to be assigned to the Commissioner District No.
/, the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
missioner District No. 8; provided, that at the first general election of
any newly created and organized county, the commissioner for District
No. !, shall be elected for two years. for No. g. for four years, and for
No g. for six years, and biennaIy thereafter there shall be one 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-
of equanzing in population and ares such Commissioner Districts,
change the boundaries of any or all of the Commissioner Districts
their respective county by filing in the office OF the County Clerk
and Recorder of such county, a certificate signed by said Judge or
.ha attrints IN mob county, han become effective from M after Fl.
ing 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
,een elected, and whose term of office has not expired; and provided,
urther, that no change in the boundaries of any Commissioner Dis
riot shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
ion.
AT the general election to be held in 1880, and thereafter at each
General election, the member or members of the Board to be elected
hall be selected from the residents and electors of the district or dis
Z ~ mem aom u s 49, omara ue hat NO. NJ shau he aIocted as
1ember of said board, who has not resided in said district for at least
wo years next receding the time when he shall become a candidate
said office.
when a vacancy occurs in the Board of County Commissioners
he Judge or Judges of the Judicial District in which the vacancy oc
urs, shall appoint someone residing in such Commissioner District
the vacancy occurs, to fill the office until the next general cleo
ion when a Commissioner shall be elected to fill the unexpired term"
Section 2 The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and
by such officials and in such manner a is provided by law
~ .hsn h. in favor Of the amendment. the Goysrnor Of the
@ tsta asan im nnn i a en- so . declare 90 as' by punls proclamation sds on and o. said aid
mendment shall be in full force and effect as a part of the Consitu
ion from and after the date ats,1 of said ad, proclamation lama .
election to be held November 1925. which shall have printed thereon
he words:
For the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Com
Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to Com
missioner Districts.
by making a |, No before the proposition desired
Section 4 All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith ar.
Section 1. This Act shall be n full force and effect from and
ftr its passage and approval
Approved March 2, 1927.
United STATES OF AMERICA,
,TATE OF MONTANA
l. John W. Mountjoy, Secretary of State of the State of Montana,
O hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy OF an
ct entitled: IAN Act Providing for the Submission to the Qualified
Electors of the State of Montana of An Amendment to Section OF Ar
.de 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
Said Commissioners Districts"
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and :
fixed the Great Seal of the State of Montana, at Helena, the Capital, ;
uy IA, 1928. JOHN W. MoUNTJOY, Secretary of State. 2c1st
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