The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-10-03
60. JUDICIAL LINES
NAY SOON CHANGE
New Plan Would Give Seventh
District, Including Stearns
Additional Judge
DOUGLAS COUNTY OUT
Litigation Always Badly Con
gested and Settlement of
Cases Delayed

step nearer realization today with
q sub-committee Of the senate in
term group agreed upon two ten
tative proposals to reshape the judi
icial map OF the state.
One plan would change the stat
usus of only four districts: seven,
twelve, sixteen, and nineteen; the
other would provide f5r two addi-
tional district judges while reduc-
ing the number of districts from 10
to IA.
Adoption of either proposal, how
ever, is contingent upon first, APP
prevail by the senate interim COM
mittee as q whole, and second, IA
vorable reception by the 1881 state
legislature.
Under the first plan Of the SUBJ
committee which would re-
duce the number of districts from
10 to lat least two judges would
be assigned each district. The re-
districting plan would place the
following counties in:
First district: A combination of
the present first and eighth district
together with Nicollet county which
now Is the ninth. The counties to
be included in the new district
would be Dakota, Nicollet, Nc
Leod, Carver. Sibley, Scott and Lee
Sueur, with three judges presiding.
Two judges now preside over the
hrst district and one over the
eighth.
Second district: Now includes
Ramsey county, with eight judges,
which would remain unchanged.
Third district: To be composed of
Wabasha, Olmsted, Winona, and
Houston counties, now in the third
district, together with Fillmore.
which is in the tenth district. Two
judges would preside.
Fourth district: Now composed
OF Hennepin county with II judges,
remains unchanged.
Fifth district: To be composed
OF Rice, Waseca, Steele and Dodge
counties, in the present district, to-
gether with Mower and Freeborn.
OF the tenth district. Two judges
would preside.
Sixth district: To be composed of
Blue Earth and Watonwan coun-
ties, Of the sixth district, together
with Jackson, Martin and Fart
Dault, now in the 18th district, and
Brown and Cottonwood counties.
topped OF from the ninth and thir-
teenth districts. respectively. Three
judges would preside.
Seventh district: To be composed
OF Stearns, Benton, Mile Laos.
kanabec, Morrison, Todd, Wadena.
Ottertail, Becker and Clay coun-
ties. A new Judge would be added
IN this district to make total of
four.
Eighth district: To be composed
OF the present sixteenth district
which includes wilkins, Traverse.
Grant, Stevens, Pope and Big
Stone. Of Swift, now in the twelfth
district and Douglas, now in the
seventh. A new Judge would be
added in this district, to make two
for the district.
Ninth district: To be composed
OF Washington, Pine, Chisago, now
IN the nineteenth district, together
with Wright, Sherburne, Isanti.
and Anoka counties now composing
the thirteenth district. There would
be three judges in this district.
Tenth district: To be composed
or st. Louis, Carlton, Lake and
Cook counties which compose the
present eleventh district. There
would be six judges in this district
as at present.
Eleventh district: To be compos.
ed OF Lac Qui Parle, Yellow Medi-
cine, Chippewa, Renville, Kandiyo-
nj and Meeker county which are in
the present twelfth district. There
would be two judges.
Twelfth district: To be composed
or Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rookie.
Mobiles, Murray and Redwood coun-
ties with two judges presiding.
The thirteenth and fourteenth
districts would merely be the re-
numbering Of the present four
teenth and fifteenth district. Under
this plan, there would be no
changes in the districting over
practically the entire northern dis
trict OF the state north Of Clay
county on the western boundary
and clear across to Pine county on
the eastern boundary.
Under the tentative proposal.
there would be SO judges serving
fourteen districts compared to SO
Judges serving the states 81 coun-