The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-02

uOn: ina WOCS0e0 also, CndC the QeUuc-
ton of the population of such county or
counties or portions thereof so set off as
aforesaid, shall not leave the district from
which tie deduction of the population as
aforesaid shall have been made, with less
number Of population than will entitle said
district to four units of representation.
Sec. Is. When any Council District in
this Territory shall be assigned two or more
members Of the Council, the committee
hereby authorized to divide the Representa-
ton, may Divide such district in such
manner that but one member of the
Council shalt be voted for and elect
ed in each council subdivision of said dis
trict, and committee are further authorized
90 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 subdi-,
vision. llssl - Il ...-. 10.
Sec. IA. 1t shall be the duty of the
committee aforesaid to file with the Secre.
tary of the Territory, copy of the pro-
ceed,ngs of said committee, including the
division of the representation as herein au-
thorized, and shall also furnish a copy to
one of the public printers, to be by him
published Immediately in one of the news
papers printed in this Territory; and the
same shall be published in all the newspa-
pers Of the Territory; and the same COM
pensation shall be allowed therfor as is
allowed for the publication Of the laws in
newspapers.
Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of tie
Sheriffs of each organized county to keep
or cause to be kept, the enumeration Of
each election precinct in his county and the
county or counties thereunto attached for
judicial purposes, separate and distinct from
each other, and make his report to the Sec
rotary 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 taking census of the popu-
lation in this Territory, shall make his re-
turns to the Sheriff of the proper county
on or before the first day of July, 1856,
and every Sheriff shall make out and for
ward his return of the enumeration of
the population of his county, or the
county or counties thereunto attached
for judicial purposes, on or before the fifth
day of July, 1855, any provision in the
act to provide to take census of the popu-
lation of this Territory to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Sec. 16. In all cases where an unor-
gained county shall form part of q
Council District or subdivision, which does
not include the county to which said unor.
gained county is attached by law for judi,
cial purposes, the returns of the elections
in said unorganized county shall be made
to the senior organized county in the
Council District or subdivision to which
said unorganized county may belong.
Sec. II. If upon the return of the
census it shall be found that any two con.
tiguous Council Districts shall jointly con
tain less amount of population than will
entitle said districts to eight units of repre-
sentation the said committee are hereby
authorized to merge said two districts into
one, and divide the representation as herein
provided. Prouided, That the Seventh
Council District be exempt from the pro-
visions of this act, and that the said dis
trict be entitled to the same representation
as ut present, viz: entitled to send two
members to the House and one to the
Council of the General Assembly. Pro
raded further That no census of the cOun-
ty Of Pembina be taken this year.