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 ing said term of office. This section shall not apply to any county wherein the salaries of its officers have been provided and fixed by law.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 18, 1890.

COUNTY SEATS.

CHAPTER 56.

[H. F. 291.]

MANNER OF RELOCATING COUNTY SEATS.

AN ACT to Provide for the Changing and Relocating of County Seats.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. THREE-FIFTHS VOTE REQUIRED. ] That whenever the inhabitants of any county in this state are desirous of relocating and changing the place of the county seat of their respective counties, and upon petitions being presented to the county commissioners signed by one-third in number of the qualified voters of such county as shown by the vote cast at the last preceding election for State officers holden in such county, it shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners in the notices for the next general election to be held in such county to notify the voters thereof to designate upon their ballots at said election the place and location of their choice, and if upon canvassing the vote so given and deposited at such election, it appears that any one place has three-fifths of the votes polled and cast, such place shall be the county seat of such county, and the board of county commissioners and all officers of such county shall within fifteen days after the result of said election has been declared by the canvassing board of such election remove all records, books, papers and paraphanlia belonging to their several county offices to the place having received three-fifths of the votes so cast; Provided, That nothing in this act shall permit the removal to or locating of the county seat of any county at a place not located upon a line of railroad, nor wherein the court house and jail now erected exceeds in value the sum of $35,000.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 7, 1890.