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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-12 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 5737: 1889-09-12 00:00:00

The committee considered the article on Irrigation and Water Rights as well as substitutions for the article on County Organization.

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Substitute for Files No. 19 and 22 [Committee of the Whole]

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COUNTY ORGANIZATION.

Section 1. The several counties of the territory of Wyoming as they shall exist at the time of the admission of said territory as a state are hereby declared to be counties of the state of Wyoming.

Section 2. The legislature shall provide by general law for the organization of new counties, locating the county seats thereof temporarily and changing county lines. But no new counties shall be formed unless it shall contain within the limits thereof property of the valuation of two million dollars, as shown by the last preceding tax returns, and not then unless the remaining portion of the old county or counties shall each contain property of an of at least three million of dollars of assessable valuation, and no new counties shall be organized nor shall any organized county be so reduced as to contain a population of less than one thousand five hundred bona fide inhabitants, and in case any portion of an organized county or counties is stricken off to form a new county, the new county shall assume and be holden for an equitable proportion of the indebtedness of the county or counties so reduced. No county shall be divided unless a majority of the qualified electors of the territory proposed to be cut off voting on the proposition shall vote in favor of the division.

Section 3. The legislature shall provide by general law for changing county seats in organized counties, but it shall have no power to remove a county seat of any organized county.

Section 4tion The legislative assembly shall provide by general law for township organization, under which any county may organize, whenever a majority of all the legal voters of such county, voting at a general election shall so determine, and whenever any county shall adopt township organization so much of this constitution as provides for the management of the fiscal concerns of said county by the board of county commissioners may be dispensed with by a majority vote of the people voting at any general election; and the affairs of said county may be transacted by the chairman of the several township boards of said county, and such other as may be provided by law for incorporated cities, towns or villages within such county. The legislature shall provide by general law for a system of township organization and government, which may be adopted by any county, whenever a majority of the citizens thereof voting at a general election shall so determine.

Section 5. The legislature shall provide by law for the election of such county and township officers as may be necessary.

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