The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-02-14
"A Bill to be entitled IAN act to Apportior

"A Bill to be entitled "An act to Apportion
Senators and Representatives among the
several Counties in this State"
Section 1. 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 it 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 const tute 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
The county of Itawamba shall constitute
the Ninth District
The county of Monroe shall constitute the
Tenth District.
The county of Chickasaw shall constitute
the Eleventh District.
The counties of Tallahatchie and Yalo-
busha shall constitute the Twelfth District.
The counties of Carroll and Sunfower
shall constitute the Thirteenth District.
The county of Choctaw shall constitute
the Fourteenth District.
The county of Lowndes and Oktibbeha
shall constitute the Fifteenth District.
The counties of Noxubee and 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.
The counties of Bolivar, Issaquena, War
rem, and 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-frst District.
The counties of Leake and Scott shall con-
stitute the Twenty-second District.
The counties ofKemper and NeShoba shall
constitute the Twenty third District.
The counties of Lauderdale and Newton
shall constitute the Twenty-fourth District.
The counties of Clarke, Wayne and Green
shall constitute the Twenty fifth District.
The county of Copiah shall constitute the
Twentysixth District.
Jefferson shall constitute the Twenty-sev->
enth District.
The counties of Adams, Amite and Will
kinson shall constitute the Twenty ghth
District.
The counties of Lawrence and Simpson
shall constitute the Twenty-ninth District.
The counties of Covington, 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
const itute the Thirty -second District
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That Repre- |
sentatiyes shall be apportioned as follows, |
to-wit:
The county Of Adams. one Representative
Amite, one Alfalfa, two; Bolivar, one /
Calhoun, two; Carroll, two 8 Chickasaw, I
two; Choctaw, three; Claiborne one |
Clarke, one; Coahoma, one Copiah two
Coyington, one Davis, one DeSoto, three |
Franklin, one Greene, one Hancock, one 7
Harrison, one; Kinds, two; Holmes, one
Issaquena, one; Itawamba, two; jackson,
one; Jasper, two; jefferson, one; Kemper,
twoi Lafayette, two; Lauderdale, two I
Lawrence, two; Leake, two; Lee, two; /
two Madison, one Marshall, |
three Marion, one Monroe, three; Nesho-
ba, one; Newton, two; Noxubee, two
Oktibbeha, one; Pamela, two Perry, one
Pike, two; Pontotoc, two; Rankin. two
Scott, one; Simpson, one Smith. one
Sunfower, one /; Tallahatchie, one; Tippah,
four; Tishomingo, Ave; Tunica, one War
rem, one; Washington, one Wayne, one;
Wilkinson, one; Winston, two Yalobusha,
two; Yazoo, one; City Of Vicksburg, one.
Sec. 4. Belt further enacted, That each
Senator heretofore elected, and who con-
tinHes in Office until the general election in
she year 1869, shall continue and be the
Senator Of the Senatorial District created
by this act until his term Of Office expires,
rs provided by the Constitution Provided,
That when any two Senators, entitled by
virtue of their election and the last classif-
cation to hold over until 1869, shall reside
u the same district, the right Of either of
aid Senator's TO hold over shall be deter
mined by lot, and the Senator in whose far
Vor said lot shall determine shall continue
md be the Senator for said Senatorial Dis |
si11s 80 s.