The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-09-28

NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
An of Providing for the Submission to the Qualified Electors of the
State of Montana of An Amendment to Section 4 Of Article nsss &vi
es; 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:
stare 81 Mon'ana al n ae neA. se eeHer@ Fo Cor Of Article XVI Of the constf
tuition of the State of Montana relating to the County Commissioners.
That Section four of Article XVI of the Constitution OF the State
of Montana, be amended so $ to read a IS follows; ooaa
three County commissioners whose term OF office shall be SIX, SIX years rs
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, n the tmst Monday IN
IN saty GAYS oays udga or 1n mees of said H county, divide their respective
counties into three Commissioner Districts a compact and equal in
population and area az 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 COUNT, 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 OF Judges; provided, also that at the first regular SEES
sion of any newly organized and created county, the said Board of
County Commissioners by n under In arecuon OF Tn DsIlcl
Court Judge or Judges of said count, 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 to the dis
trict in which he is residing Or the nearest thereto; the senior member
of the Board in service to be assigned to the Commissioner District No
1, the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
trct No. 2 and the junior member of the board to be assigned to Com
missioner District No. 3; provided, that 1T the first general election or
any newly created and organized county, the commissioner for District
No /, shall be elected for two years, for No. 2 for four years, and for
No !, for six years, and biennany thereafter there shall be one Com
missioner elected to take the place of the retiring Commissioner, who
nON MS Office lot SIX years
"That the Board of County Commissioners by and under the dhec-
ton of the District Court Judge or Judges of said County, for the pur-
pose of equahzing in population and area such Commissioner Districts
change the boundaries of any or 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
Commissioner Districts al changed, and such change in any or al
the districts in such county, shall become effective from and after fiji
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
been elected, and whose term of office has not expired; and provided,
further. that no change in the boundaries of any Commissioner Dis
shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
lion.
"At the general election to be held in 1890, and thereafter at each
general election, the member or members of the Board to be elected,
in which the vacancy occurs, but the election of such member
members of the Board shall be submitted to the entire electorate
the county, provided, however, that no one shall be elected as a
member 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
or 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-
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 unexpred term"
Section 2 The vote upon this amendment shall be counted and
by such officials and in such manner as is provided by law
or the counting and canvassing of the votes for members of Congress
nd if a majority of all votes cast at said election for inc against said
mendment shall be in favor of the amendment, the Governor of the
tate shall Immediately 10 declare by public proclamation, and said
mendment shall be in full force and effect IS a part of the Consttu-
ion from and after the date of said proclamation.
Section 3 Separate official ballots shall be used at the general L
lection to be held November 1928, which shall have printed thereon
words:
For the amendment to the Constitution relating to County Com Il
missioner Districts. L
Against the amendment to the Constitution relating to Com
missioner Districts.
And the elector shall designate his preference for either of the 8