The Nevada Democrat., 1861-04-04
LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONBTENT.

LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT.
The Assembly Special Committee, ap-
pointed to report bill for aPportioning the
State into Senatorial and Assembly districts
have agreed upon the ratio and plan Of ap-
portionment. According to their plaD,
both Houses will consist of the highest num-
Der of members authorized by the Constitu-
tion-forty Senators and eighty Assembly.
men. Under the present apportiOnment
there are thirty.four Senators and eighty
Assemblymen. The ratio of representation
is one Senator to about $500 Inhabitants,
and one Assemblymen to 1850. The Union
of Tuesday, publishes an abstract Of the bill
agreed upon by the Committee, from which
il appears that the districts are to be made
up as follows:
San Francisco and San Mateo, six Senators; !;
Assemblymen--twelve to San Francisco, six to
San Mateo; Santa Clara, one Senator, three
Assemblymen Alameda, one Senator, two As
semblymen; Tuolumne, two Senators, three
Assemblymen; San Joaquin, one Senator, two
Assemblymen FL Dorado, two Senators, four
Assemblymen; Sacramento, two Senators, five
Assemblymen SonOma, one Senator, three AS
semblymen; Nevada and Placer, three Senators
Nevada four, and Placer three Assemblymen;
Yuba and Sutter, two Senators-Yuba two, and
Sutter one Assemblymen Calaveras, two SEN
ators, three Assemblymen Butte, Colusa and
Tehama, two Senators-Butte two, Colusa one,
and Tehama one Assemblyman San Diego and
San Bernardino, on Senator and AssembIymaI
each; Los Angeles, one senator, two Assembly
men; Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and
Buena Vista, one Senator Santa Barbara, one
Assemblyman, and one Assemblyman to the
other two counties; Tulare and Fresno, one
Senator, one Assemblyman each MaripOsa and
Merced, one Senators Monterey and Santa
Cruz, one Senator, one Assemblyman each;
Contra Costa and Marin, one Senator, one AS
semblyman each SolanO and Yolo, one Sena-
tor, one Assemblyman each +; Napa and Men
docino, one Senator, one Assemblyman each
Sierra and Plumas two SenatOrs-Sierra two,
and Plumas one Assemblyman Shasta and
Trinity, one Senator, one Assemblyman each :;
Siskiyou, one Senator, one Assemblyman !;
Humboldt, Klamath and Del NOrte, one Sena-
tor, and one Assemblyman each
There is evidently mistake in regard to
San Matec. That county has only 1921 in
habitaDts, and is not entitled to more than
one Assemblyman that is probably the
number Intended, as the foregoing list gives
eighty.fve members In all-fve more than
the Constitutional number.
The new appOrtionment will considera-
bly, change the relative representation of
the mining and agricultural counties-the
former losing and the latter gaining. FL
Dorado loses two Senators and four Assem-.
blymen, while San Francisco gains the
same number of each. Nevada and Placer
each lose an Assemblymau, and the two
counties lose a Senator. Whether the two
counties elect three Senators joiRtly, or one
Senator each and one jointly, we do not
know. The latter would be preferable.
Everybody who has thought at all on the
subject, has an opinion as to how The State
should be apportiOned and our opinion is
that sixty Assemblymen aud twenty Sena.
tors would be enough for State having no
larger population than California. This
would give Nevada three AssemBlymen and
one Senator, which would be a sufficient rep-
resentatiOn for this county. or course,
other counties would be cut down in pro.
portion.