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the county of Izard shall elect one Representative; the county of Jackson shall elect one Representative; the county of Jefferson shall elect three Representatives; the county of Johnson shall elect one Representative; the county of Lafayette shall elect one Representative; county of Lawrence shall elect one Representative; the county of Little River shall elect one Representative; the county of Lonoke shall elect two Representatives; the county of Lincoln shall elect one Representative; the county of Lee shall elect two Representatives; the county of Madison shall elect one Representative; the county of Marion shall elect one Representative; the county of Monroe shall elect one Representative; the county of Montgomery shall elect one Representative; the county of Mississippi shall elect one Representative; the county of Nevada shall elect one Representative; the county of Newton shall elect one Representative; the county of Ouachita shall elect two Representatives; the county of Perry shall elect one RepreBentative; the county of Phillips shall elect three Representatives; the county of Pike shall elect one Representative; the county of Polk shall elect one Representative; the county of Pope shall elect one Representative; county of Poinsett shall elect one Representative; the county of Pulaski shall elect four Representatives; the county of Pralrie shall elect one Representative; the county of Randolph shall elect one Representative; the county of Saline shall elect one Representative; the county of Sarber shall elect one Representative; the county of Scott

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shall elect one Representative; the county of Searcy shall elect one Representative; the county of Sebastian shall elect two Representatives; the county of Sevier shall elect one Representative; the county of St. Francis shall elect one Representative; the county of Stone shall elect one Representative; the county of Union shall elect two Representatives; the county of Van Buren shall elect one Representative; the county of Washington shall elect three Representatives; the county of White shall elect two Representatives; the county of Yell shall elect one Representative; the county of Woodruff shall elect one Representative; the county of Sharp shall elect one Representative.

3. III.

CONNECTICUT.

The House of Representatives shall consist of electors residing in towns from which they are elected. The number of Representatives from each town shall be the same as at present practiced and allowed. In case a new town shall hereafter be incorporated, such new town shall be entitled to one Representative only (altered by amendments of 1828, 1836 and 1875); and if such new town shall be made from one or more towns, the town or towns from which the same shall be made shall be entitled to the same number of Representatives as at present allowed, unless the number shall be reduced by the consent of such town or towns.

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apportioned among the several counties as follows, to wit: To the six counties having the largest population, viz.: Chatham, Richmond, Burke, Houston, Bibb and Fulton, three Representatives each; to the twenty-six counties having the next largest population, viz.: Bartow, Coweta, Decatur, Floyd, Greene, Gwinnett, Harris, Jefferson, Meriwether, Monroe, Muscogee, Newton, Stewart, Sumter, Thomas, Troupe, Washington, Hancock, Carroll, Cobb, Jackson, Dougherty, Oglethrope, Macon, Talbot and Wilkes, two Representatives each; and to the remaining one hundred and five counties one Representative each.

2. XIX.

IDAHO.

The several counties shall elect the following members of the House of Representatives:

The county of Ada, three members. The counties of Ada and Elmore, one member.

The county of Alturas, two members.

The county of Boise, two members. The county of Bear Lake, one member.

The county of Bingham, one member.

The county of Cassia, one member.

The county of Custer, two members.

The county of Elmore, one member.

The county of Idaho, one member. The counties of Idaho and Nez Perce, one member.

The county of Kootenai, one member.

The county of Latah, two members.

The counties of Kootenai and Latah, one member.

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enumeration shall be made in accordance with articles 16 and 17, the State shall be divided into the following Senatorial districts, with the number of Senators hereinafter designated to each district: The First Senatorial district shall be composed of the Eighth and Ninth wards of Orleans, and of the parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines, and shall elect two Senators.

The Second district shall be composed of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh wards of Orleans, and shall elect two Senators. The Third district shall be composed of the Third ward of Orleans, and shall elect one Senator.

The Fourth district shall be composed of the Second and Fif

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teenth wards (Orleans right
bank) of Orleans, and shall elect
one Senator.

The Fifth district shall be composed of the First and Tenth wards of Orleans, and shall elect one Senator.

The Sixth district shall be composed of the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards of Orleans, and shall elect two Senators.

The Seventh district shall be composed of the parishes of Jefferson, St. Charles and St. John the Baptist, and shall elect one Senator.

The Eighth district shall be com

posed of the parishes of St. James and Ascension, and shall elect one Senator.

The Ninth district shall be composed of the parishes of Terrebonne, Lafourche and Assumption, and shall elect two Senators.

The Tenth district shall be com

posed of the parishes of St.
Mary, Vermillion, Cameron and
Calcasieu, and shall elect two
Senators.

The Eleventh district shall be
composed of the parishes of St.
Martin, Iberia and Lafayette,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Twelfth district shall be com-
posed of the parish of St. Lan-
dry, and shall elect two Sena-
tors.

The Thirteenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of
Avoyelles and Pointe Coupee,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Fourteenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of Iber-
ville and West Baton Rouge, and
shall elect one Senator.
The Fifteenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of
East and West Feliciana, and
shall elect one Senator.

The Sixteenth district shall be
composed of the parish of East
Baton Rouge, and shall elect one
Senator.

The Seventeenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of St.
Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa,
Washington and St. Tammany,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Eighteenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of
Rapides and Vernon, and shall
elect one Senator.

The Nineteenth district shall be
composed of the parishes of
Natchitoches, Sabine, De Soto
and Red River, and shall elect
two Senators.

The Twentieth district shall be
composed of the parish of Caddo,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty-first district shall be
composed of the parishes of Bos-
sier, Webster, Bienville and Clai-
borne, and shall elect two Sen-
ators.

The Twenty-second district shall
be composed of the parishes of
Union, Morehouse, Lincoln and
West Carroll, and shall elect
two Senators.

The Twenty-third district shall be composed of the parishes of Ouachita, Richland, Caldwell, Franklin and Jackson, and shall elect two Senators.

The Twenty-fourth district shall be composed of the parishes of Catahoula, Winn and Grant, and shall elect one Senator. The Twenty-fifth district shall be composed of the parishes of East Carroll and Madison, and shall elect one Senator. The Twenty-sixth district shall be composed of the parishes of Tensas and Concordia, and shall elect one Senator. Thirty-six (36) Senators in all. And the Representatives shall be apportioned among the parishes

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and representative districts as follows:

For the parish of OrleansFirst Representative district, First ward, one Representative. Second Representative district, Second ward, two Representatives.

Third Representative district, Third ward, three Representatives.

Fourth Representative district,
Fourth ward, one Representa-
tive.
Fifth

Representative district Fifth ward, two Representatives.

Sixth Representative district, Sixth ward, one Representative. Seventh Representative district, Seventh ward, two Representatives.

Eighth Representative district, Eighth ward, one Representative.

Ninth Representative district,
Ninth ward, two Representa-
tives.
Tenth

Representative district, Tenth ward, two Representatives.

Eleventh Representative district,
Eleventh ward, two Representa-
tives.
Twelfth

Representative district, Twelfth ward, one Representative.

Thirteenth Representative district, Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards, one Representative. Fourteenth Representative district, Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards, one Representative. Fifteenth Representative district, Fifteenth ward, one Representative.

The parishes of Ascension, West Baton Rouge, Bienville, Bossier, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, East Carroll, West Carroll, Catahola, Concordia, West Feliciana, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette,

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Lincoln, Livingston, Morehouse, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Point Coupee, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Union, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster and Winn, each one Representative. The parishes of Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, Caddo, Claiborne, De Sota, East Feliciana, Iberville, Lafourche, Madison, Natchitoches, Rapides, St. Mary, Tensas, Terrebonne, each two Representatives. The parish of St. Landry, four Representatives.

This apportionment of Senators and Representatives shall not be changed or altered in any manner until after the enumeration shall have been taken by the State in eighteen hundred and ninety, in accordance with the provisions of articles 16 and 17.

5. IV.

MAINE.

The meetings within this State for the choice of Representatives shall be warned in due course of law by the selectmen of the several towns seven days at least before the election, and the selectmen thereof shall preside impartially at such meetings, receive the votes of all the qualified electors present, sort, count, and declare them in open town meeting, and in the presence of the town clerk, who shall form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person against his name, shall make a fair record thereof in the presence of the selectmen and in open town meeting. And the towns and plantations organized by law, belonging to any class herein provided, shall hold their meet

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ings at the same time in the respective towns and plantations; and the town and plantation meetings in such towns and plantations shall be notified, held and regulated, the votes received, sorted and counted and declared in the same manner. And the assessors and clerks of plantations shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties which selectmen and town clerks have, and are subject to by this Constitution. And fair copies of the lists of votes shall be attested by the selectmen and town clerks at towns, and the assessors plantations, and sealed up in open town and plantation meetings; and the town and plantation clerks, respectively, shall cause the same to be delivered into the secretary's office thirty days at least before the first Wednesday of January annually. And the Governor and Council shall examine the returned copies of such lists, and also all lists of votes of citizens in the military service, returning to the secretary's office, as provided in article second, section four, of this Constitution; and twenty days before the said first Wednesday of January, annually, shall issue a summons to such persons as shall appear to be elected by a plurality of all the votes returned to attend and take their seats. But all such lists shall be laid before the House of Representatives on the first Wednesday of January, annually, and they shall finally determine who are elected. The electors resident in any city may, at any meeting duly notified for the choice of Representatives, vote for such Representatives in their

respective ward meetings, and the wardens in said wards shall preside impartially at such meetings, receive the votes of all qualified electors present, sort, count and declare them in open ward meetings, and in the presence of the ward clerk, who shall form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person against his name, shall make a fair record thereof in the presence of the warden, and in open ward meetings; and a fair copy of this list shall be attested by the warden and ward clerk, sealed up in open ward meeting, and delivered to the city clerk within twenty-four hours after the close of the polls. And the electors resident in any city may at any meetings duly notified and holden for the choice of any other civil officers for whom they have been required heretofore to vote in town meeting, vote for such officers in their respective wards, and the same proceedings shall be had by the warden and ward clerk in each ward as in the case of votes for Representatives. And the aldermen of any city shall be in session within twenty-four hours after the close of the polls in such meetings, and in the presence of the city clerk shall open, examine and compare the copies from the lists of votes given in the several wards, of which the city clerk shall make a record, and return thereof shall be made into the Secretary of State's office in the same manner as selectmen of towns are required to do. . XXV.

Section two, article four, part first, of the Constitution of this State, as amended under the "resolution concerning an amendment

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