The Daily clarion., 1867-02-07
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d to abs be enttIsd A9 act to Apportion
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!. Section l. Be it enacted BY the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
following shall be the apportiOnment of
Senators and Representatives in the Legis-
lature of this State, at the sessions thereof
held on and after the first Monday of No
vember, 1867.
Sec. 2. BE il further enacted, That the
State shall be divided into thirty-two Sena-
tOrial Districts, as follows, to-wit:
The county of TiShOmingo shall constitute
the First District.
The county of Tippah shall constitute the
Second District.
The county of Marshall shall constitute
the Third District.
The county of DeSoto shall constitute the
Fourth District.
The counties of Coahomo, Pamela, and
Tunica. shall constitute the Fifth District.
The counties of Calhoun and Lafayette
shall constitute the Sixth District.
The county of Pontotoc shall constitute
Seventh District.
The county of Lee shall constitute the
Eighth District
The county of Itawamba shall constitute
the Ninth District.
The county of Monroe shall constitute the
Tenth District
The county of Chiekasaw shall constitute
the Eleventh District
The counties of Tallahatchie and Yalo-
busha shall constitute the Twelfth District.
The counIies of Carroll and Suntl0wer
shall constitute the Thirteenth District
Tho county of Choctaw shall constitute
the fourteenth District.
The county of Lowndes and Oktibbeha
shall constitute the Fifteenth District
The counties of Noxubee aud Winston
shall constitute the Sixteenth District
The counties of Yazoo and Madison shall
constitute the Seventeenth District.
The counties OF Holmes and Attala shall
constitute the Eighteenth District
Tue counties of Bolivar, Issaquena, War
rem, aud Washington. shall constitute the
Nineteenth District
The county of Kinds shall constitute the
Twentieth District
The counties of Rankin and Smith shall
shall constitute the Twenty-tirst District.
The counties of Leake aud eott shall con-
stitute the Twen6y-second District.
The counties of Kemper and Neshoba shall
constitute the Twenty-third District
Ihe counties of Lauderdale and Newton
shall constitute the Twenty-fourth District.
The counties Of Clarke, Wayne and Green
shall constitute the Tweuty-ffth District
The county of Copiah shall constitute the
Fwenty-SiXth District.
The counties of Claiborne. Franklin. and
Jefferson shall constitute the Twenty-seY-
enth District.
The counties of Adams, Amite. and Will
klnson shall constitute the Twenty-eighth
The counties of Lawrence and Simpson
shall constitute the Twenty-ninth District.
The counties OF COviBgton. Davis and
Jasper shall constitute the Thirtieth Dis
trict.
The counties of Jackson. Hancock. Harri.
son and Perry shall constitute the Thirty
FIRST District
The counties of Marion and Pike shall |
constitute the Thirty-second District
Sec. 5. Be IL further enacted That Repre- |
sentatlves shall be apportioned as follows. |
tO-wit
The county of Adams. one Representative;
Amite, one; Attala. two; Bolivar. one +;
Calhoun, two; Carroll, two; Chickasaw,
two; Choctaw.F three; Claiborne. one /;
Clarke, one; Coahoma, one; Copiah two +;
COVlngton, ones Davis. one; DeSoto, three (;
Franklin, one Greene, one; Hancock, one
Harrison, one; Hindss two Holmes, one :
ISsaauena, one: Itawamba, two jackson,
one Jasper two Jefferson, one: kemper,
two; Lafayette, twos LaudeIdale, two
Lawrence. two; Ieake, two; Lee, two
Lowndes. two; Madison, one; Marshall,
three Marion, one Monroe, threei Nesho-
l,a one Newton, two; Noxubee, two
Oktibheha, one Pamela. two; Perry, one
Pike, two; Pontotoe. two; Rankin. two
Scott, one; Simpson. one Smith. one
Suuhower. one Tallahatchie, one Tippah,
four Tishomingo. i've; Tuniea, one War /
rem, one; Washington, one: Wayne. one:
Wilkinson, one; Winston, two Yalobusha
two; 1azoo, one; City of Yicksburg, one.
Sec. 1. Be it further enacted, That each |
Senator heretofore elected, and who con- /
tinues in Office until the general election in /
the year 1859, shall continue and be the /
Senator of the Senatorial District created /
by this act until his term OF Office expires
as provided by the Constitution Prorided, /
That when any two Senators, entitled by /
virtue of their election and the last classif- /
cation to hold over until 1859 shall reside /
in the same district, the right of either of /
said Senators 70 hold over shall be deter. /
mined by LOT, and the Senator in whose IA /
vor said lot shall determine shall continue /
and Ia the 6enarur for said Senatorial Dis. /
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