have three (3) commissioners. Ballots on which appear both "for three commissioners" and "for five commissioners," neither being stricken out, shall not be counted as cast on said proposition. tion. The commissioners shall have the qualifications Time of eleeof electors, and shall be elected in their respective districts at the annual general election. SEC. 54. Districts.-Each county not under Districts. township organization having not more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants shall be divided into three districts, numbered respectively one (1), two (2), and three (3), or into five (5) districts as provided for in section fifty-three (53), which shall be numbered respectively one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5); and in counties having more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants shall be divided into five (5) districts, numbered respectively one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5), and shall consist of two (2) or more voting precincts, comprising compact and contiguous territory and embracing, as near as may be possible, an equal division of the population of the county, and not subject to alteration oftener than once in three (3) years, and one (1) commissioner shall be elected from each of said districts by the qualified electors of the district as hereinbefore provided. The district lines shall not be changed at any session of the board unless all of the commissioners are present at such session; Provided, That in counties of one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants or more and in counties where a majority have voted for five (5) commissioners it shall be the duty of the Amending sec. 59. commissioners, or supervisors of such county, at their first meeting after the publication of state or federal census, or after an election deciding to have five (5) commissioners, to divide said county into five (5) commissioners' districts, as provided for in this bill; Provided further, That the three (3) commissioners of such county whose term of office will expire after said election shall continue to represent the districts in which they shall reside, after the redistricting of such county, until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected; And provided further, That at the general election next after the division of a county into five (5) districts, one (1) commissioner shall be elected for each of the two (2) remaining districts. Of the two (2) persons elected in such districts, the person receiving the highest number of votes shall hold his office for the term of three (3) years and the person receiving the next highest number of votes shall hold his office for the term of two (2) years, and each commissioner elected thereafter in pursuance of the provisions of this section shall hold his office for three (3) years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Provided, That in counties having more than seventy thousand (70,000) and less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000 ( inhabitants the county commissioners shall be elected by a vote of the entire county. SEG. 2. That section fifty-nine (59) of article one (1) of chapter eighteen (18), Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, be amended to read as follows: Section 59. Chairman shall sign warrants.— In counties having three (3) commissioners, the commissioner whose term of office expires in one (1) year shall be chairman of the board for that year, and in counties having five (5) commissioners the board of county commissioners at its regular meeting in January of each year shall elect a chairman of the board to serve for the ensuing year, and such chairman shall sign all warrants on Chairman; the treasurer for money to be paid out of the ranta. county treasury. signing war clause. SEC. 3. That sections fifty-three (53), fifty-Repealing four (54), and fifty-nine (59) of article (1) of chapter eighteen (18), and section twenty-two (22) of chapter twenty-eight (28), and all other laws conflicting with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved April 9, 1891. [Senate File No. 212.] CHAPTER 22. Mortgage indebtedness record. Contents of record. AN ACT to require the register of deeds and county clerks who are Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That the register of deeds and county clerks who are ex-officio registers of deeds of the various counties in this state are hereby directed and required to procure at the expense of their respective counties, and keep in their offices, a book to be known as the "Mortgage Indebtedness Record," and such book shall be open to the inspection of the public. SEC. 2. The register of deeds and the county clerks who is ex-officio register of deeds shall each day enter in such record the aggregate number and amounts of all mortgages filed for record, excepting only railroad mortgages and the mortgages of gas, water, and similar corporations based on franchises or rights of way, and shall in making such entry enter the number and amounts of farm, town, and .city and chattel mortgages separately, and shall also enter in the same manner the aggregate number and amounts of all such mortgages released of record, whether by deed of satisfaction or release, or quit-claim, or by marginal indorsement on the original record, and must keep a correct and accurate account of the same that the total number and amounts of all liens so released may be shown. All sheriffs', special masters', or other deeds which are based on foreclosed mortgages shall be considered as releases of the corresponding number and amount of mortgages for the purposes of said record, and shall be so counted in making up the totals for each day's entries, and the aggregate number of such sheriffs' or other deeds so considered as releases shall also be separately noted on the record. SEC. 3. The record herein provided for shall be Form of record in form substantially as follows: |
