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§§ 530-535 vass his office shall be deemed vacant and shall be filled in the manner provided by law for the filling of vacancies; and if any one or more of the county commissioners shall fail or refuse to qualify as provided by law, the remaining member or members of said board, with the judge of the probate court and register of deeds of said county, even before the said two such officers named have given their bond, shall immediately appoint some suitable person to fill the vacancy in the office of county commis- sioner.

§ 530. The county commissioners elected or appointed under the provisions of this act shall have power to divide the county into three commissioner districts, which shall be numbered from one to three; and said districts shall not be changed oftener than once in three years, and then only at the regular sessions in January, April or July; and one commissioner shall be elected from each of said districts at the next general election after such organization, one of whom shall be chosen for the term of one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and one annually thereafter as provided by law.

§ 531. The said supervisors of election shall receive for their services the sum of four dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed, and ten cents per mile for necessary travel, to be approved by the governor and audited and paid out of the territorial treasury.

§ 532. The officer or person serving the notices on the judges of election and posting the notices as provided in this act shall receive for his service the amount authorized by law for like services performed by a sheriff in all organized counties; and the clerk of the district court and other county officers required to perform the services required in this act shall receive two dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed; and the printers and publishers shall receive the legal rates for publication of said notices; all of which sums shall be audited and paid by the said unorganized county as soon as the said county shall be organized under the provisions of this act.

§ 533. Any failure to publish or post the notices provided for in this act shall not invalidate an election held under the provisions of said act; but if any of the officers shall wilfully fail to perform any of the duties required of him by this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly.

§ 534. If from any legal cause the whole election held under the provisions of this act for the organization of a county should be set aside by the court or judge thereof and declared invalid, then the governor shall have all the authority provided in this act to call a new election, and said county shall be organized as in this act provided.

§ 535. Such portions of the territory not organized into counties as are annexed to any organized county, shall for judicial and other purposes be deemed to be within the limits and a part of the county to which they are annexed.

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