The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-14
The New Apportionment Bill.

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Section l. Be it enacted, etc., That I'M
til the next septennial enumeration of
the taxable inhabitants and an appor-
tionment thereon, the Senate shall con-
sist Of thirty three members, and be ap-
portioned as follows to wit:
/. The First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Seventh, Eighth and Twenty-sixth Wards
of the city Of Philadelphia shall compose
the First District, and elect one Senator
2. The Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards of the
city of Philadelphia shall compose the
Second District, and elect one Senator.
3. The Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Wards Of the city of Philadelphia shall
compose the Third District, and shall e.
lect one Senator.
4. The Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twen-
ty-frst, Twenty second, Twenty third,
twenty fourth and Twenty fifth Wards
of the city of Philadelphia shall compose
the Fourth District, and elect one Sena-
tor.
5. The counties of Chester, Delaware
and Montgomery shall compose the Fifth
District, and elect two Senators.
6. The county of Bucks shall compose
the Sixth District, and elect one Senator
Z. The counties of Lehigh aud North
ampton shall compose the Seventh Dis
trict, and elect one Senator.
8. The county Of Berkes shall compose
the Eighth District, and elect one Sena-
tor,
g. The county of Schuylkill shall com.
pose the Ninth District, and elect one
Senator:
10. The counties of Carbon, Monroe,
Pike and Wayne, shall compose the Tenth
| District, and elect one Senator
II. The counties Of Bradford, Susqqe-
hanna and Wyoming, shall compose the
Eleventh District and elect one Senator
Il. The county Of Luzerne shall com
pose the Twelfth District, and elect one
Senator
13. The counties of Potter, Tioga
N Kean and Clinton shall compose the
Thirteenth District, and elect one Sena
tor.
II. The counties of. Lycoming, Union
and Snyder shall compose the Fourteenth
District, and elect one Senator.
Is. The counties Of Northumberland
Montour, Columbia and Sullivan shall
compose the Fifteenth District, and elect
one Senator.
l6. The counties of Dauphin and Lcb-
anon shall compose the Sixteenth Dis
trict, and elect one Senator.
II. The county of Lancaster shall com
pose the Seventeenth District, and elect
two Senators.
Is. The counties Of York and Cum
berland shall compose the Eighteenth
District, and elect one Senator.
ID. The counties Of Adams and Frank
lin shall compose the Nineteenth Dis
trict, and elect one Senator.
20 The counties of Somerset, Bedford
and Fulton shall compose the Twentieth
| District and elect one Senator.
q. The counties Of Blair, Hunting
don, Centre, MIfliin, Juniata and Perry
shall compose the Twenty first District,
and eject two SenatOrS.
%. The counties Of Cambria. Indiana.
and Jefferson shall compose the Twenty
secondsDistrict and elect one Senator
%. The counties of Clearfeld, Gamer
on, Clarion, Forest and Elk shall com
pose the Twenty-third District, and elect
enc Senator.
p. The counties Of Westmoreland,
Fayette and Greene shall compose the
Twenty-fourth District, and elect one
Senator.
%. The county Of Allegheny shall
compose the Twenty-ffth District, and
elect two Senators.
26. The counties Of Washington and
Beaver shall compose the Twenty sixth
District and elect one Senator.
p. The counties of Lawrence, Butler
and Armstrong shall compose the Twen-
tyseventh District, and elect one Sena-
tor.
%. The counties of Mercer, Venango
and Warren shall compose the Twenty
eighth District, and elect ore Senator.
20. The counties of Crawford and
Erie shall compose the Twenty ninth
District, and elect one Senator.
Section 8 That until the next septin-
NAL enumeration of taxabes and appor-
tionment thereon made, the House of
Representatives shall consist of one hun
dred members, and be apportioncd as fol-
lows:
l. The First Ward and the Twenty
sixth Ward Except the Seventh and
Eighth Election Divisions) shall compose
the First District, and elect one mem
btr.
2. The Second Ward Except the
Tenth and eleventh Divisions), and the
First, Second and Third Divisions of the
Third Ward, shall compose the Second
District, aud elect Gne member
B. The Tenth and Eleventh Divisions
of the Second Ward, the Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Divisions off
the Third Ward, the Fourth Ward, and
the First and Third Division of the Fifth
Ward, shall compose the Third District,
and elect one memhap