Petition - Proclamation calling election - Counties

excepted.

Upon a petition or petitions in writing, signed by fifty-one

percent (51%) of the qualified electors residing in each particular

territory sought to be created into a new county, or transferred to

another county, such percent to be determined by the total vote cast

in said territory for the head of the state ticket in the next

preceding election, and it being made to appear that said

petitioners are qualified electors of said territory and are fifty-

one percent (51%) of each particular territory thereof, and it being

made to appear that if a new county is to be formed, that same will

consist of not less than five hundred (500) square miles of taxable

area and will contain a population of not less than twenty thousand

(20,000) people and will have not less than Four Million Dollars

($4,000,000.00) of taxable wealth as shown by the current tax rolls;

that if the change or changes sought to be made are for the purpose

of creating a new county it will not bring the newly created lines

of such existing county or counties from which said territory is

taken nearer than twenty (20) miles to the county seat thereof; that

if the change or changes sought to be made for the purpose of

transferring territory from an existing county or counties to

another county, it will not bring the newly created lines in such

existing county or counties from which any territory is taken nearer

than fifteen (15) miles to the county seat thereof; that the taxable

wealth of such existing county or counties will not be reduced below

that required for a new county, and if the object sought is to

transfer territory from one county to an existing county, it shall

be made to appear that the county from which said territory is

sought to be taken, will not be less in area than the county to

which the addition is made, and such petition and such showing have

been filed with and made before the Governor, shall within thirty

(30) days issue his proclamation, calling an election to be held in

said territory not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy (70)

days from the date of his proclamation. That nothing in this bill

shall apply to counties now existing containing eighteen hundred

(1,800) square miles in area, which counties shall be governed by

the Constitutional limitations.