The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-10-19
NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

NOTICE OF ELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL 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 One Commissioner From
Each of Said Commissioners Districts.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State OF Montana:
Section 1 There shall be submitted to the qualified electors Of the
~ foJoTiog amendnant 10 section -Four of Article WI Of the constt
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 s to read as follows:
Section 4 (f Article XVI. 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 as Commissioner Dis
trics, numbers one, two and three respectively.
1.-THE Board of County Commissioners shall in every county in the
State of Montana, at their regular session, IN the first Monday in
ing ING sI.s ys fea neet au ny ~ uhuer .ne 80 ~ ue
District Court Judge O Judges of said county, divide their respective
two two and three three ~ w I sncb 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
by said Judge or Judges; provided. also that at the first regular ses
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 new county
into Commissioner Districts as herein provided.
Upon such division, the Board of County Commissioners shall
assign its members to such districts in the following manner; each
no poarS In nc 800 ~ he assgnad ~ tba omuission nistrict NJ =
/, the next member in seniority to be assigned to Commissioner Dis
trict No 2 and the junior member of the board to be assigned to Com
District No 9; provided, that at the first general election of
any newly created and organized county, the commissioner for District
Nc. l. shall be elected for two years, for No. q for four years, and for
No. 8, for six years, and bennary thereafter there shall be one Com
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 drec-I
ton of the District Court Judge o Judges of said County, for the pur-
pose Of equaizng in population and ire such Commissioner Districts,
may change the boundaries of any O all Of the Commissioner Districts
n 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
sid Commissioner Districts as changed, and such change in any or al
he districts in such county, shall become effective from and after i'll
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
been elected, and whose term Of office has not expired; and provided,
urher, that n change in the boundaries OF any Commissioner Dis
riot shall be made within six months next preceding a general cleo
ion.
AZ the general election to be held h 1890. and thereafter at each
general election, the member r members Of the Board 10 b elected.