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

~ We publish below, the Apportion-
ment Bill as it passed the Legislature yes
terday. We congratulate the people living
west the Mississippi, on thus just recog-
milton of their rights. .s9 4ra .,s,I
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l. bly, OF this Territory.
? Bet enacted By the Legislative assembly
Of the Territory Of Minnesota.
Sec. l. The counties of Goodhue, Dodge
and Freeborn shall hereafter constitute the
fourth Council District .
Sec. 2. The counties of Dakota, Scott
and Rice, shall hereafter constitute the
sixth Council District
Sec. 8. The counties of Houston, Fill
more and Mower, shall hereafter constitute
the eighth Council District. 4.
Sec. 4. The counties of Winona, Ohm
stead and Wabashaw, shall constitute the
ninth Council District.
Sec. S. The counties of LIE Sueur, Steele,
Farribault, Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet,
Sibley, Pierce and Renville, shall constitute
the tenth Council District.
Sec. g. The counties of Hennepin, Car
yer and Davis, shall constitute the eleventh
Council District.
Sec 7. 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 the Council
and three members of the House of Rep
resentatives shall be selected by the respec-
i tive Houses, who shall meet at the Capitol
in st. Paul, on the first Monday in August
next, and shall proceed jointly to divide
among the several Council Districts in the
Territory, the representation in the two
Houses of the Legislature to which each
district shall be entitled, in proportion to
the population in the several districts, in
the manner hereinafter provided.
Sec. 10. The representation in the next
Legislature shall be increased to fifteen
members Of the Council, and thirty-eight
members Of the House of Representatives,
which shall be divided in the following man
ner, to wit:
LIST. The whole number of representative
population of the Territory shall be divided
by sixty-eight, that being the whole num-
Der Of units of representation in the Legis-
lature. TIE quotient shall be the ratio Of
population entitled to unit of representa-
ton.
I'd. The representative population of each
Council District shall be divided by said "a
ito of population, and the quotient shall be
the whole number of units of representa-
ton in the Legislative Assembly to be es-
signed to such district, and the remainder
shall be fractions
Sd. The several numbers of units Of rep
resentation thus ascertained shall be added
together, and if the addition proves to be
less than sixty-eight the whole number of
. units Of representation one unit of repre-
sentation shall be added to each district
having the largest fraction, until the said
units, added together shall amount to sixty
eight as aforesaid.
4th. The units of representation shall
then be divided between the two Houses, in
such manner that the number of Repre-
sentatives and Councillors assigned to each
district will form the number of units of
I representation to which such district is enti-
tied without leaving remainder, by count
ing each Councillor two units and each Re-
preventative one unit.
9Th. In all districts which may be emit
tied to more than three units Of representa-
ton, not less than two members of the
House Of Representatives 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 be-
ing thus counted, shall, in connection with
! the number set down as members of the
House of Representatives, form the num-
Der of units Of representation to which each
district is entitled.
SEC. IL. The Council Districts as de.
signated in IAN act for the apportionment
} of Representation in the Territory" appro-
we'd February IL, 1851, shall constitute the
Council Districts 81 the Territory, subject
to the notifications and alterations pro
vided by this act, and no Council District
shall be assigned less amount of repre-
rsentation than one member of the Council.
and two members of the House of Repre-.
4 sentatives. i,
SEC. IL. When any Council District
in this Territory, the population Of which
Is not sufficient to entitle said district to
four units Of representation, it shall be the
duty Of the joint committee authorized by
this act to divide the representation 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 COMMITTEES or