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NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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NOTICE OF ELECTION INSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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 n commissone From
Each of Said Commissioners Districts.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislative Assembly Of the State Of Montana nj =.
Section !. There shall be submitted to the qualified electors 81 n
State of Montana at the next general election to be hld in said state
tuition of the State of Montana relating to the County Commissioners
of Montana, be amended s. as to read as follows:
Section 4 (f Artci. xvD. In each county there shall be elected
provided that each county in the State of Montana shall be divided into
three Commissioner Districts to be designated al Commissioner Dis
"rhe Board of County Commissioners shall in every county in the
May, 1928. or as soon thereafter as convenient or possible, not exceed
ing sixty days thereafter, meet and by and under the direction OF the
counties into three Commissioner Districts a $ compact and equal in
two and three, and when such division has been made. there shall be
filed in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder II such county a
certificate designating the metes and bounds OF tn boundary mes Q,
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
into Commissioner Districts a IS herein provided.
upon such division, the Board of County Commissioners shall
assign it's members to such districts in the following manner; each
member of the said Board then in service shall be assigned to the dis
tict in which he is residing or the nearest thereto; tn senior member
of the Board in service t be assigned to the Commissioner District No
!, the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
tr1ctN Nc. 2 ne Junior memDer o. M BOARD &c DC asssneu 70 Oon
missioner District No. 8; provided, that at the first general election of
any newly created and organized county h commissioner for Dlstrict
N w. . q f~ sly years n biennallv thereafter there shall be one Com
missioner elected to take the place of the retiring Commissioner who
shall hold his office for six years.
"rhst the Board of County Commissioners by and under the dnec
ton of the District Court Judge o Judges of said County, for the pur-
pose of equahzing in population and are such Commissioner Districts
may 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 o
500 umi.siona rnisticts 40 cbanged and such change in n or all
the districts in such county, shall become effective from and after fill
ing of such certificate; provided, however, that the boundaries of no
as 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 n o change in the boundaries of any Commissioner Dis
tct shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
ton.
cat the general election to be held in 1890, and thereafter at each
general election, the member o members of the Board to be elected
shall be selected from the residents and electors of the district " dis
tricts in which the vacancy occurs, but the election Of such member
or members of the Board shall be submitted to the entire electorate
of 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
f or s ssar off hs" 'S0"s 'S '"' NHsH ~ sD'' 'S''"S :
when a vacancy occurs in the Board of County Commissioners
the Judge Or Judges Of the Judicial District in which the vacancy oc-
ours, shall appoint someone residing in such Commissioner District
where the vacancy occurs, to fill. the office until the next general cleo
ton when a Commissioner shall be elected to fill the unexpred term"
canvassed by such officials and in such manner as is provided by law
for the counting and canvassing Of the votes for members Of Congress
and if a majority of all votes cast at said election for and against said
amendment shall be in favor of the amendment, the Governor of the \
amendment shall be in full force and effect as a part Of the consttu-
tion from and after the date of said proclamation
election 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 eector shall designate his preference for either of the
by making an CN before the proposition desired.
Section A. All Acts and parts Of Acts in conflict herewith are
Section 5. This Act shall be il. full force and effect from and
its passage and approval
Approved March Z, 1927. ~
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, -
STATE OF MONTANA. m
l. John w. Mountjoy, Secretary of State of the State of Montana Il
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an
act entitled: Gan Act Providing for the Submission to the Qualified
Electors of the State of Montana of An Amendment to Section of Ar IL
icle XVI of the Constitution of Montana, Relating to County Commits
ioners; Providing for the Division of Counties Into Commissioners
Providing for the Election of One Commissioner From Each II
Said Commissioners Districts" Is
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have hereunto set my hand and
fixed the Great Seal of the State of Montana, at Helena, the Capital 1s
uy IA, 1928. JOHN w. MOUNTJOY, Secretary of State. 261St II