Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — Provisions of the New Law Affecting the Coming Spring Election of Township Officers. [ARTICLE]

Provisions of the New Law Affecting the Coming Spring Election of Township Officers.

We give herewith the provisions of the new law regarding the election and term of office of township trustees and other officers. Section 4,737 of the Revised Statutes of 1881 was amended by the last legislature so that township trustees and assessors, instead of taking their office ten days after their election as heretofore, “shall enter upon the duties of their offices on the first Monday of August following such election.” Another act of the &anie _ !egislature provides that township elections shall be held “on the first Monday of April, 1890, and every fourth year thereafter, for the purpose of electing Justices of the | Peace, Township Trustees, Asses-! sors, Constables and such other 1 officers of townships as may be ; provided for by law, which elec- j tions shall be conducted by the of- I fleers and governed by the provis- • ions of the law with respect to gen- I eral elections, so far as The coming spring election will be held under the old law, the An- j stralian not going into operation until June, 1890. As to the eligibility for the of-1 fice of township trustee, the new ] law provides that “any person who : has held the office of township trustee for two terms consecutively at the date of the next township election in April, 1890, shall not

be eligible to said office for the next ensuing term; and thereafter no person shaikhs eligible to the office of township trustee more than four years in any period of eight years.” Under the new law the term of office of township trustees, assessors, constables and supervisors is four years —the same as justices of the peace. One constable is elected for each justice of the peace in a township and one supervisor for each road district as heretofore. In regard to the employment of teachers by outgoing trustees to teach during a time beyond the expiration of the trustee’s term of office, the Attorney General has ruled that such practice is allowable, and teachers may therefore be employed by the present trustees.