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ARTICLE or AMFYpMENr.

ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.
! The members of the House of Representa-
tives shall be elected in the following manner
Each City, Town, or District, Containing
twelve hundred inhabitants, may elect one
Representative, and two thousand four hundred
inhabitants shall be the mean increasing num-
Der which shall entitle any City, Town or Dis
trict to an additional Representative and the
number of inhabitants in each City, Town or
District shall always be ascertained and deter
mined by the next preceding Census, taken un-
der the authority of the United States, if no
provision for that purpose be made by the Leg
islature of this Commonwealth.
In every case where any Town is now united
to any other Town or to District, for the pur-
pose of eiecting Representative, such Towns
or Districts so united, are and shall be consd-
cred, respectively, one Town, in all things re-
specting the election of Representatives, as pro-
vided for in this article.
Every Town or District containing less than
twelve hundred inhabitants shall be entitled to
elect one Representative each, every other
year, and for this purpose the Legislature shall
divide all such Towns and Districts, within each
County IN this Commonwealth, into two classes,
as nearly equal as may be and determine the
time and manner that each class may elect their
Representative, as herein provided. And any
contiguous Town and District, or any two con-
provisions of this article. he entitled to Sand one
Representative every year, may Unite ana senG
a Representative every year, if they prefer so
to do, in such manner as the Legislature shall
provide.
And to prevent the House Of Representatives
from becoming too numerous, the number of
Inhabitants, which shall entitle City, Town
or District 20 elect one Representative, and the
mean increasing number which shall entitle it
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increased, if found necessary, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two,
and every tenth year afterwards SO that the
House of Representatives shall never consist of
more than three hundred and fifty Members,
who shall be paid for their travel and attend
ance, out of the public Treasury.
Not less than seventy-iye members of the
! House of Representatives, shall constitute a
quorum for doing business. And all the provis-
ions of the existing Constitution inconsistent
with The provisions herein contained, are here
by wholly annuled.
In House Of Representatives., March 5, 1880.
The foregoing Resolution and article OF
Amendment having passed in this House by a
constitutional majority, two thirds of the Mem
bers present and voting thereon, having voted
in the affirmative, the same are accordingly
sent to the Senate.
w. B. CALHOUN, Speaker.
/ In Senate, March 8, 1880.
| The Resolution and Amendment aforesaid
are agreed to, by majority of Senators present
and voting thereon.
SAMUEL LATHRoP, President.
CoMMoNwEALrH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In House of Representatives, March 10, 1890.
Ordered, That the Clerk of the Senate cause
the proposed Amendments of the Constitution
to be forthwith published, three weeks success.
sively, in all the newspapers printed in this
Commonwealth. Sent up for concurrence.
P. w. WARREN, Clerk.
In Senate, March 10, $780,
! Read and concurred.
PAUL WILLARD, Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Senate Chamber, Boston, March 18Th, 1880.
The foregoing is true copy of Record.
Attest: PAUf, WILLARD. Clerk oflhe Senate