(A) (1) The returns of the election held at the City on April 14, 1888, by vote upon the question of the incorporation of the town as a City of the second class, was examined and the ballots counted. The result was as follows: 55 persons voting—48 ballots for incorporation—7 ballots against incorporation.
(2) It was accordingly resolved that the territory embraced in the petition of John Potter and others, filed March 5, 1888, be and the same is hereby declared a City of the second class under the name of White Sulphur Springs and embracing the S 1/2 SE 3/4 Section 12, the NE 1/4 Section 13 T 9 N R 6 E, Lot 4 and the SE 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 7 and the NW 1/4 Section 18, T 9 N R 7 E, to be divided into two wards.
(3) All that portion of said territory, north of a line running from the west line of said territory easterly through the center of the Main Street according to the association plat, to the west line of the Jonas Higgins plat, thence north to the center of Main Street according to the Jonas Higgins plat, thence easterly through the Main Street according to the Jonas Higgins plat to the east line of said territory to be known as the First Ward, or Ward Number One.
(4) All that portion of said territory south of said line to be known as the Second Ward, or Ward Number Two. (Commissioners Journal Book 4, Page 604).
(B) The City is now organized as a town, pursuant to the provisions of § 11-201 of the Revised Codes of the State of Montana for 1947, to wit: as a municipal corporation having a population of 300 but less than 1,000; and whereas, it now appears by the Certificate of Hannah M. Brady, Clerk and Recorder of Meagher County, dated the eighth day of October, 1957, the census of 1950, it manifestly appears to the Council of said corporation that it has the requisite population to entitle it to be classified as a City of the third class, pursuant to the provisions of said § 11-201, R.C.M., 1947; be it therefore resolved and by this resolution declared that the Town of White Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, Montana, be and it hereby is advanced to a City of the third class, effective immediately.
(1985 Code, § 1.02.010)