Article 3.-Division of Counties.
Section.
536. Electors may petiton.
537. County commissioners give notice of election.
538. Electors vote by ballot.
539. County clerks certify result of election to secretary of territory.
540. Governor to appoint three commissioners.
541. County commissioners appoint county officers.
542. County seat, how located.
543. Commissioners governed by general law, when.
544. Elections governed by general law, when.
545. Commissioners to procure transcripts of records.
546. New counties to assume just proportion of indebtedness.
547. Certain moneys to be turned over.
548. When moneys to be turned over to new county.
Section.
549. Commissioners to redistrict county.
550. When school and road districts renumbered and renamed.
551. When district to be holden for bonds.
552. Validity of bonds.
553. Fees of county commissioners.
554. Indebtedness of new counties.
555. When bonds to be dated.
556. County treasurer to keep bond register.
557. Commissioners to issue liquidating bonds.
558. Commissioners to levy tax.
559. Interest for redemption of bonds.
56O. Revenue of counties.
561. Judicial subdivision.
562. Judge to appoint term of district court.
563. Venne, when changed.
564. Writs, bonds and recognizances.
Electors may petition. s. 1, c. 38, 1887.
§ 536. Whenever five hundred legal voters of any county in this territory, residing in that portion of the county proposed to be segregated, shall petition the board of county commissioners of such county, requesting the said board to call an election at which the question of the segregation of such county, as in this act provided, may be submitted, and describing in said petition the boundaries of said portion proposed to be segregated, and the proposed name of said new county, which name shall be different from every other county in the territory, the board of county commissioners of said county shall, within thirty days after receiving such petition, make an order declaring that it is proposed to organize, with the assent of the qualified voters thereof, a new county out of a portion of their county, describing, as in the petition, the boundaries of said new county, and to give it the name specified in such petition; and said board shall include in said order a notice for an election to be held by the qualified voters in said portion proposed to be segregated, at the usual voting precincts, on some day within thirty days there from, to determine whether or not such territory shall be the county of (giving name as specified in the petition referred to); provided, however, that no petition shall be considered by any board of county commissioners in which it is requested that a county be divided so as to leave less than twenty-two congressional townships, or an equivalent in area, to either part of its divisions; and, provided further, that the number of votes polled at the last general election in any portion desiring to be segregated under the provisions of this act, shall have been seven hundred and fifty or more, and that the number of votes cast at the last general election in that portion of a county from which another portion desires to segregate, under the pro visions of this act, shall have been seven hundred and fifty or more; and, provided further, that the question of the division of such county shall have never been submitted to a vote in the said county, by reason of any special act of the legislative assembly of the territory of Dakota.
County commissioners give notice of election. s. 2, c. 38, 1887
§ 537. The board of county commissioners, petitioned as provided by section 536, shall cause twenty days' notice of such election to be given by publication in a newspaper, if one be published in the proposed n ew county, and by posting up three copies of said notice at public places in each of the several election precincts within the boundaries of such proposed new county, and shall, at least ten days prior to such election, appoint
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