Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-07-17
Con tutiOnal Amendments.

Resolved, by The General Assembly Of The State
Of Missouri, ttoo-thirds Of each house concWrring
therein, That the following DC proposed as amend
ments to the Constitutions:
l. The House of Representatives shall con-
sist Of members to be chosen every second year
by the qualified electors of the several counties,
apportioned in the following manner, to-wt
The ratio OF representation shall be ascertained at
each apportioning session of the Legislature, by
dividing the whole number of permanent free white
inhabitants OF the State, by the number of one
hundred and forty; each county having said ratio,
or less, shall be entitled to ono Representatives;
each county having said ratio and fraction over
equal to ree-fourths, shall be entitled to two rep
resentatives; each county having three times said
ratio, shall be entitled to three representatives;
each county having four times said ratio and
fraction over equal to one half, shall be entitled
to four representatives; each county having six
times said RATIO shall be entitled to five represen-
tatives; each county having eight times said ratio,
shall be entitled to six representatives; each
county having ten times said ratio, shall be ent-
tied to seven representatives; each county having
thirteen times said ratio, shall be entitled to eight
representatives; each county having fifteen times
said ratio, shall DO entitled to nine representatives
each county having eighteen times said ratio, shall
be entitled to ten representatives; each county
having twenty-five times said ratio, shall be emit
tied to eleven representatives.; each county having
twenty -four times said ratio, shall be entitled to
tWelVe representatives. any COUNTY HdVlHS HOre
than twenty-four times said ratio, shall be repre-.
scented in the same proportion. And the General
Assembly which shall meet in the year eighteen
hundred and fOrty-eight and every fourth year
thereafter, shall apportion the number of repre-
sentatives among the several counties as herein
directed. And the members Of the General Assem-.
bly, shall receive compensation for their services
not to exceed three dollars per day for the first six
" days, and after that time not to exceed dol
lar per day for the remainder of the session;
at a revising session they may receive a compensa-
ton not to exceed three dollars per day for the first
one hundred days, and one dollar per day for the
remainder Of the session; but the General As
sembly may allow a greater compensation to
the presiding officer Of each house. No county
now established by law shall ever be reduced
by the establishment Of new counties to less
than twenty miles square, nor to less than FIVE
hundred square miles; nor below the ratio Of repre-
sentaton then required; nor shall any county be
hereafter established containing less than five hun
dred square miles, nor shall any county hereafter
established be entitled to separate representation,
unless the number Of permanent free white inhab-
ants therein SHALL at the time, be equal to three
tourths of the ratio Of representation then being,
but may be organized with smaller number for
all other purposes, civil and military. The Sec
ond, fourth, twenty fourth and thirtyfourth Sec
tons OF the third article of the Constitution are
hereby abolished.
We do certify that the within and foregoing
proposition to amend the Constitution Of this State
was read on three several days in each house of
the General Assembly of the State of Missouri,
and passed by majority of two-thrds Of each
house. e. +. JACKSON,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
JAMES YOUNG,
President Of the Senate.