Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — About County Councilmen. [ARTICLE]

About County Councilmen.

Attorney-General Taylor, in response to numerous requests as to the election of con nt y councilmen, has given the following official opinion: “The act of 1899 provides for the election of three councilmen-: at-large from each county and four councilmen to be elected, each I from his respective district. It ; provides for the division of the county into fourcouncilrnanic districts. The three councihnen-at-large will be voted for by all the voters in the count}’, but the councilmen presenting each of the four districtswill be elected by the four districts will be elected by the voters in their respective districts. All these seven councilmen are • county officers, and the vote there- ■ fore must be canvassed by the ■ county canvassing beard. That ■ being the case, the names of three j councilmen-at-large w .! be upon ; all the county ballots, and, in addi- ■ tion thereto, the councilmen from i the districts will be placed only upon the ballots voted in their districts, respectively, so that there will haveto be four forms of county ballots in each county. These four forms of county ballots will be exactly alike except as to the names of the district councilmen.”