Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-03-06
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? Bell enacted by the Legislature assembly Of
The Territory Qf Minnssota:
s SIC. l.. Tho Counties of Goodhue, Dodge
and Freeborn, shall hereafter constitute the fourth
Council District.
SEC. .. The Counties of Dakota, Scott and
Rice, shall hereafter constitute the sixth Council
District.
SEC. 3. The Counties of Houston, Fillmore
and Mower, shall hereafter constitute the eighth
Council District.
SEC. t. The Counties of Wnona, Olmstead
and Wabashaw, shall constitute the ninth Coun-
Gil District. - s>.
SEC. 5. Tn, Counties of lie Sueur, Steele,
Farribault, Blue Earth, Brown, NicOllet, Sibley,
Pierce and Renyille, shall constitute the tenth
Council District. .-
, Sec. 6. The Counties of IIenncpn, Carver
and Davis, shall constitute the eleventh Council
District.
SEC. T. The Counties of Todd, Stevens and
Wright, shall be attached to the fifth Council
District.
Sec. 8. The Counties of Superior and Doty
shall be attached to the first Council District.
SEC. 9. Two members of tho Council and
three Of the House of Representatives shall be Sc
lected by tn, respective Houses, who shall meet
ut the Capitol in st. Paul, the first Monday in
August next, and shall proceed jointly to divide
among the several Council Districts in the Terri
tory, the representation in the two Houses Of the
Legislature to which each District shall be enti-
tied, in proportion to the population in the sever
al Districts, in the manner hereinafter prOvi-
ded. ..-. .-.
SEC. 10. The representation in the next Leg
slature shall be increased to fifteen members Of
the Council, and th'rty-eight members of the
House Of Representatives,, which shall be divided
i'll the following manner, to wit:
Ist. The whole number of representative pop
ulation of the Territory shall be divided by sixty
eight, that being the whole number of units of
representation in the Legislature. The quotent
shall be the ratio of population entitled to uni:
of representation.
2nd. The representative population of each
Council District shall be divided by said ratio of
population, and the quotient shall be the whole
number of units of representation in the Legsla-
tive Assembly to be assigned to such District.
and the remainder shall be fractions.
3rd. The several numbers of units of repre-
sentation thus asccrtaned, shall be added togeth-
er, and if the addition proves to be less than six
ty. eight (the whole number of units of represen
taton) one unit of representation shall be added
to each District having the largest fraction; until
the said units, added together shall amount to
sixty-cight as aforesaid.
4th. The units of representation shall then be
divided between the two Houses, in such manner
that the number of Representatives and Council
lors ass gned to each District will form the num-
Der of units of representation to which such Dis
trict is entitled without leaving a remainder, by
counting each Councillor two units and each Re-
preventative one unit.
9Th. In all districts which may be entitled to
more than three units of representation, not less
than two members of the House Of Representa-
tives shall be assigned to each member of the
Council. In all cases the number set down as
denoting the number Of members of the Council
from each district, shall be counted twice, and
being thus counted, shall, in connection with the
number set down as members Of the House of
Representatives. form the number of units of
representation to which each district is entitled.
SEC. III. The Council Districts rs designed in
San act for the apportonmcnt of Representation
in the Territory approved February ID, 1851,
shall constitute the Council Districts of the Ter
rito-y, subject to the notifications and altera-
tiOns provided by this act, and no Council dis
trict shall be assigned less amount of represen-
taton than one member of the Council, and two
members of the House of Representatives.
Sec. IL. When any Council District in this
Territory, the population of which is not sufh-
cient to entite said district to four units of rep
rcsentation, it shall be the duty of the joint COM
mittee authorized by this act to divide the repre-
sentation in the two houses Of the Legislature, to
take from district having greater population
than will entitle such district to four units of
representation, such county or counties, or such
portions thereof may contain sufficient popu-
lation as will when added to the said district
having deficit of population aforesaid, consti-
tute sufficient population to entitle said district
to four units OF representation, and such county
or counties or portions thereof so set off shall
be deemed to belong to and form a part of the
Council district to which the population shall
have been added as aforesaid: Procided, that
the county or counties or portions thereof to be
selected as aforesaid, shall be selected from a
district contiguous to the district containing such
deficit of population: And provided also, that
the deduction Of the population of such county
counties portions thereof to set of as afore-
said, shall not leave the district from which the
deduction of the population as aforesaid shall
have been made, with less number of popula-
ton than will entle said district to four units of
representation. '-.. .-..
Sec. IS. When any Council District in this
Territory shall be assigned two or more mem
bers OF the Council, the committee hereby author
lied to divide the representation, may divide such
district in such manner that but one member Of
the Council shall be voted for and elected in each
council subdivision of said district, and the COM
mittee are further authorized so to divide each
Council District in such manner that at least one
member Of the House of Representatives may be
voted for and elected in each Representative sub
division.
Sec. IA. 1t shall be the duty of the commit
tee aforesaid to file with the Secretary of the
Territory, copy of the proceedings Of said COM
mittee, including the division of the representa-
ton as herein authorized, and shall also furnish
copy to one of the public printers, to be by him
published Immediately in one of tho newspapers
printed in this Territory; and the same shall be
published in all the newspapers of the Territory
and the same compensation shall be allowed
therefor as is allowed for the publication of the
laws in newspapers.
Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of the Sheriffs
of each organized county to keep or cause to be
kept, thu enumeration Of each election precinct
in his county and the county or counties thereunto
attached for judicial purposes, separate and dis
tinct from each other, and make his report to
the Secretary of the Territory accordingly; and
every assistant, appointed by any Sheriff to take
the enumeration of the population within any
county as provided by the act to provide for tax
ing census of the population Of this Territory,
shall make his returns to the Sheriff of the prop
county on or before the fifth day of July, 1855.
and every Sheriff shall make out and forward his
return of the enumeration of the population of his
county, or the county or counties therunto attach
ed for judicial purposes, on or before the fifth
day of July, 1855, any provision in the act to
provide 10 take census of the population of this
Territory to the contrary Notwithstanding. .tr--
SEC. 16. In all cases where an unorganized
county shall form Council District or subdvi-
sion, which does not include the county is attach
ed by law for judicial purposes, the returns of the
elections in said organized county in the Council
District or subdivision to which said unorganized
county may belong.
Sac. II. If upon the return of the census it shall
be found that any tyyo contiOrouS Coupeil Die.