Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-25
State Apportionment Bill.


The following is copy of the infamous
swindle Just passed in our Legislature by a
Mr.. Foster. for the re apportoning of the
State into Senatorial dirtricts. A more
Infamous attempt to obtain complete con
troll of the State politically was never made
and yet it is | ut in kicking with the reck-
less swindlng operation of this black re
publican organization which claims for it.
self all the intelligence and virture of the
country. Let the people read and ponder
this gerrymandering as it appears in all its
defornity.
SECTION g BE it enacted by tie Geueral
ito for the apportionment of the State into
the Senatorial Districts shall be eighteen
thousand and six hundred inhabitants for
one Senator, until otherwise provided by
law
$ g Lee county is the first district and
entitled to one Senator.
SIS Van Buren, county the second dis
trict and entitled to one Senator.
5 A. Davis county the third district and
entitled to one Senator.
5 5. The counties Of Appanoosc and
Wayne are made the fourth district and are
entitled to one Senator.
$ .. The counties of Decatur, Ringgold,
Taylor and Page are made the fifth district
are entitled to one Senator
I. The counties of Fremont, Mills,
Montgomery, Adams, Union and Adair the
sixth district and are entitled to one Sena-
tor.
s. The county of Des Moines is the
seventh district and entitled to one Sena-
tor.
y. The county OF Henry is the eight
district and entitled to one Senator.
10. The county of Jefferson is the
ninth district and entitled to one Senator.
IL. The county of Wappelo is the
tenth district and entitled to one Senator.
IL. The counties of Monroe and Lucas
are made the eleventh district and are en-
titled to one Senator.
5 Ii. The counties of Warren and Clark
are made the twelfth district and are en-.
titled to one Senator.
IA. The county of Louisa is the thir-
teenth district and entitled to one Senator.
$ 10. The county of MuscatiDe is the
fourteenth district and entitled to one Sen.
ator.
5 l6. Washington county is the fif-
tor.
5 II. Keckuk county is the sixteenth
district and entitled to one Senator.
5 Is. Mahaska county is the seven
teenth district and entitled to one Senator
Is. Marion county is the eighteenth
district and entitled to one Senator.
90. The counties Of Madison and Dal-
las are made the nineteenth district and
are entitled to one Senator.
$ 81. The counties of Pottawattamie,
Cas-, Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Guthrie,
ard Monona, are made the twentieth dis
trict and are entitled to one Senator
S %. The county Of Scott is the twenty
first district and entitled TO one Senator.
$ 23. The county Of Clinton is the
twenty second district and entitled to one
Senator.
S "a. Cedar county is the tweEty-third
district and entitled to one Senator.
5 %. johnson county is the twenty
fourth district and entitled TO one Senator
S rs. The counties of Iowa and Powe
sheik are made the twenty-tifth district
and are entitled to one Senator.
S n. The counties of Jasper and Marshal
are made the twenty sixth district and are
entitled to one Senator.
$ %. The county of Polk is the twenty.
seventh district and is entitled to one Sena
| tor.
$ 30. The county of jackson is the
twenty-eight district and entitled in one
Senator.
5 30. Jones county is the twenty niuth
district and entitled to one Senator.
S 81. Linn county is the thirteenth dis
trict and entitled to one Senator.
S 80. The counties of Benton and Tama
are made the thirty first district and are en-.
titled to one Senator.
| 5 SS. The counties Of Hardin, Story and
Boone are made the thirty second distric,
and are entitled to one Senator.
5 81. The counties of Greene. Carroll
Calhoun. Crawford. Sac, Woodbury., Ply
mouth, Sioux and Buncombe are made the
thirty third district and ore entitled to one
Senator. >
=, 5 &c. The county of Clayton is the
tnirty-hfth district and entitled to one Sen.
atOr.
5 81. The counties of Delaware and
Duenanan are made the thtrty-sixth district
"na are entitled to one Senator.
50. The counties of Black Hawk
du1dy, Butler, Wright and Franklin are
MADE the thirty seventh district and are
entitled to one Senator.
5 49, The counties Of Fayette and Hre-
mer are made the thirty-eieht district and
are entitled to one Senator. '
5 40 The counties of Alamakee and Win.
neshiek are made the thirty-ninth district
and are entitled to one Senator.
S Al. The counties of Howarw, Chick.
asaw, Mitchell, Floyd. Worth, Cerro Gordo.
Winnebago and Hancock are made the for.
tieth district and entitled to one Senator.
| 5 AZ. The counties.lof Hamilton. Web
ster, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo, Alto. Poca
hontas. Dickinson, Clay, Buena Vita, Os-
ceola, O'Brien and Cherokee are made the
forty-first district and are entitled to one
Senator.
$ AZ. This act to be in force from and
after IT. publication according to law.
a. A plan for series Of short canals.
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