Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1882 — NEW APPORTIONMENT. [ARTICLE]

NEW APPORTIONMENT.

Text ol tl»e BUI Panned by Congreas. The text, of the Apportionment Ml, as it passed both Houses of Congress, is as follows:. Be it enacted, etc.. That after the Sd of March, 1883, the House of Representatives ah all be composed of 825 members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows s Alabama .*..".... 8 Missirslppi 7 Arkansas. 5 Missouri ...14 California. 6 Nebraska , 3 Colorado 1 Nevada 1 Connecticut 4 New Hampshire 2 Delaware, 1 New Jersey 7 Florida 2 New York .35 Georgia 10 North Carolina 9 Illinois 20 Ohio 21 Indiana...; 13 Oregon.. 1 lowa 11 Peauayl vania 28 yanaaa 7 Rhode Island 2 Kentucky 11 South Carolina 7 L0ui5iana.............. 6 Tennessee 10 Maine 4jTex»s 11 'Maryland 6 Vermont 2 Masaachuaetta 12 Virginia. 10 Michigan 11 West Virginia 4 Minnesota. 5 Wisconsin 9 Sec. 2. That whenever a new State is admitted to the Union the Representative or Representatives assigned it shall be in addition to the number of 325. Seo. 8. That in each State entitled under this apportionment the number of Representatives to which snch State may be entitled in the Forty eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be electfed by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as may be an eqnal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the Representatives to which' snch State may be entitled in Congress, no one district electing more than one Representative ; provided that unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide, before the election of such Representatives shall take place, as provided by law, where no change shall be hereby made in the representation of a State, the Representatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress shall be elected therein as now provided by law. If the- number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it was before this change, then an additional Representative .or Representatives allowed to said State under this apportionment may be elected by the State at large, and the other Representatives to which the State is entitled by districts, as now prescribed by law in snch State; and if the Dumber hereby provided for shall in any State be less than it was before the change hereby made, then the whole number to such State hereby provided for shall be elected at large, unless the Legislatures of said States have provided or shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.