Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-11-12
The Apportionment Bill Passed by the
Legislature.


AN Act to apportion representation, and TO di-
vide the state into senatorial districts.
Be IL snactd blythe General Assembly of the State
Of Missouri, as Jollotrs:
Section l. Representation shall hereafter be ap-
portioned as follows, Wis from the county Of ST.
Louis twelve representatives; from the counties
Of Platte, Jackson, Buchanan, Boone, Pike,
Greene, Galloway, Cape Girardeau, Cooper,
Franklin Lafayette, Marion, Ray, and st. Charles
each two representatives; and from all other rep
resentative counties, each one representative.
Sec. 2. The state is hereby divided into the
following senatorial DISTRICTS the members Of the
Senate TO be elected hereinafter designated, to-
wit; the counties Of st. Charles, Warren, and
Montgomery will compose the first senatorial dis
trct; the counties Of Pike, Lincoln, and Audrain,
the second senatorial district; the counties Of
Boone and Galloway, the third senatorial district;
the counties Of Rails, Marion, and Monroe, the
fourth senatorial district the counties of Lewis,
Clark, and Scotland the fifth senatorial district;
the counties Of Howard, Randolph, and Charlton,
the sixth senatorial district; the counties Of Knox,
| Macon, Shelby, and Schuyler, the seventh sena-
torial district; the counties Of Linn, Sullivan,
Putnam, and Livingston, the eighth senatorial dis
trict; the counties Of Davies, Harrison, Mercer,
and Grundy, the ninth senatorial district; the
counties of Ray, Carroll. Caldwell, and Clinton,
the tenth senatorial district; the counties Of Atch
| ison, Holt, Nodaway, and Andrew, the eleventh
senatorial district; the counties of Buchanan, De
Kalb, and Gentry, the twelfth senatorial district;
the counties Of Platte, and Clay, the thirteenth
senatorial district; the counties of jackson, Cass,
and Bates the fourteenth senatorial district; the
counties Of johnson, Benton, Henry, and st. Clair
the fifteenth senatorial district; the counties Of Sa-
line, Lafayette, and PettIs, the sixteenth senate
rial district; the counties Of Vernon, Barton, Dade
Jasper and Cedar, the seventeenth senatorial dis
trict; the counties of Newton, Barry, Lawrence,
and Nc Donald, the eighteenth senatorial district
the counties of Greene, Stone, fancy, and Web
ster, the nineteenth senatorial district; the coun-
| ties of Polk, Dallas, Laclede, and Hickory, the
tw entieth senatorial district; the counties OF
Franklin, Usage, and Gasconade, the twenty-frst
senatorial district; the counties Of Crawford
Dent, Texas, Wright, Pulaski, Ozark, Douglass
and Phelps, the twenty-second senatorial district
the counties OF Washington, Jefferson, st. Fran.
co.'s, and ST. Genevieve, the twenty-third senate.
rial district; the counties Of Ripley, Madison, l.
ron, Wayne, Butler, Shannon, Reynolds, Oregon
and Howell, the twenty fourth senatorial district
the counties of Stoddard, Dunklin, Pemisco t
| New Madrid, Mississippi, and Scott, the twenty
fifth senatorial district; the counties of Capt
Girardeau, Perry, and Bollinger, the twenty.
sixth senatorial district; the counties Of Cole
| Miller, Camden, and Maries, the twenty sew emil
senatorial district the counties of Cooper, Nor
gan, and Moniteau, the twentiy.eighth senatorial
district; the county of st, Louis the twenty
senatorial district.
Sec. 3. The twenty-ninth district shall elect fiv,
senator's and each of the other districts shall cleo
one senator.
Sec. 4. The twenty ninth district shall cleo
four (4) senator's at the general election in the
year eighteen hundred and ifty-eight, (185S,) anC
one senator at the general election in the we al
eighteen hundred and sixty; the first, fourth sixth
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth
thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth
eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty first
twenty twenty-third, twenty fifth, ant
twenty-seventh, shall each elect one senator a
the general election in the year eighteen hundred
and ffty-eigh; and the second, third, fifth, 81 x
tenth, twenty fourth, twenty=sixth, and twenty
eighth districts, shall elect one senator at the gen
eral election in the year eighteen hundred AM
sixty:
Sec. 5. Immediately after the assembling an
organization of the Senate, in the year eightee
hundred and fifty-elght, all the senators enumera
ted in the last proceeding section as 10 be electe
in that year, (ls5s,) shall by lot be divided int
two classes, OF which there shall be eight in on
and seventeen in another, and the seats Of a
those in the class consisting Of eight members sha
:, be vacated at the end of two years; and thereaf
VI ter, at the general election IN the year eightee
hundred and sixty, elections shall be held in thei
respective districts for senators, to fill the place
! OF senators belonging to said class, which wi
thus become vacant, and all the senators so cleo
ted TO fill such vacancies, shall hold their office
for the term of four years, go that thereafter a
equal number of senators, as near as may b
shall be elected each alternate general electio