The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-20

the State into senatorial districts. No phIlsH
shall be divided In the formatlon VI q sela
toriaI district. the parish of Orleans excepted.
And whenever d new parish shall pc created,
II shall be attached to the senatorial district
from which most Of It's TERRITORY was taken,
nr 70 another contiguous district, at the dlS-
erection of the Legislature, put snail not De
attached to more than one district. The num-
her of Senators shall not be more than thirty.
ak nor less than twenty-four, and they shall
be apportioned among the senatorial districts
according to the total populatlon cohIalneu
in the several districts.
The third article was read, as follows:
ARTICLE -. Until an enumeration shall be
made In accordance with sections - ana
. the State shall be divided into the fol-
lowing senatorial districts, with the number
Of Senators hereinafter designated to each
district:
The First Senatorial District shall be com
posed Of the eighth and ninth wards OF Or.
leans and OF the parishes OF st. Bernard ana
Plaauemines. and shall elect two Senators.
The Second District shall be composed o.
the fourth, FIFTH, sixth and seventh wards OF
Orleans, and shall elect two Senators.
The Third District shall be composed OF
the third ward OF Orleans, and shall elect one
Senator.
The Fourth District shall be composed
Of the second ward and fifteenth ward W.
leans. right bank,) Of Orleans, ana snail elect
one Senator.
The Fifth District shall be composed Of the
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elect one Senator.
The Sixth District shall be composed OF the
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth SIX.
teenth and seventeenth wards OF Orleans, and
shall elect two Senators.
The Seventh District shall be composed OF
the parishes of Jefferson, vt. Charles and 81.
John the Baptist, and shall elect one Senator.
The Eighth District shall be composed of
the parishes of st. James and Ascension, and
shall elect one Senator.
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parishes OF Terrebonne, Lafourche and AS
sumption, and shall elect two Senators.
The Tenth District shall he composed OF the
parishes Of St Mary, Vermillion, Cameron
The Eleventh District shall be composed OF
the parishes Of st. Martin, Iberia and Lafay-
cite, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twelfth District shall be composed OF
the parish OF st. Landry, and shall elect two
Senator's
The Thirteenth District shall be composed
of the parishes of Avoyeles and Pointe
Coupee, and shall elect one Senator.
The Fourteenth District shall be composed
Of the parishes Of Iberville and West Baton
Rouge, and shall elect one Senator.
The Fifteenth District shall be composed
OF the parishes of East and West Feliciana,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Sixteenth District shall be composed
Of the parish Of East Baton Rouge, and shall
The Seventeenth District shall be composed
Of the parishes Of st. Helena, Livingston,
Tangipahoa, Washington and st. Tammany,
and shall elect one Senator.
The Eighteenth District shall b conn composed seq
of the parishes OF hatldes anu Yelnon' anu
shall elect one Senator.
The Nineteenth District shall be composed
OF the parishes Of Nachitoches, Sabine, DeSoto
and Red River, and shall elect two Senator's
The Twentieth District shall be composed
Of the parish OF Caddo, and shall elect one
Senator.
The Twenty-first District shall be com
posed OF the parishes of Bossier, Webster.
Bienville and Claiborne, and shall elect TWO
Senators.
The Twenty-second District shall be com
posed of the parishes OF Union, Morehouse,
Lincoln and West Carroll and shall elect two
Senators.
The twenty third District shall be COM
posed of the parishes Of Ouachita, Richiand,
Caldwell, Franklin and Jackson, and shall
The Twenty fourth District shall be com,
posed Of the parishes OF Catahoula, Wlnn ana
Grant, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty-tifth, District shall be com,
posed of the parishes OF East Carroll and
Madison, and shall elect one Senator
The Twenty sixth District shall be com
posed of the parishes OF Tensas and Con-
cordia, and shall elect one Senator.
Thirty-six Senators in all.
And that the Representatives. shall be ap-
portioned among the parishes and represen-
tative districts as follows:
For the parish Of Orleans
First Representative District first ward,
one Representative.
Second Representative DISTRICT, second
ward two Representative:
Third Representative District. third ward,
three Representatives.
Fourth Representative District, fourth
ward, one Representative
Fifth Representative District, fifth WARD,
two representatives.
Sixth Representative District, sixth ward,
one Representative.
Seventh Representative District, seventh
| ward, two Representatives.
Eighth Representative District, eighth
ward, one Representative.
Ninth Representative District, ninth ward,
two Representatives.
Tenth Representative District, tenth ward,
two Representatives.
| Eleventh Representative District, eleventh
| ward, two Representatives.
| Twelfth Representative District, twelfth
ward, one Representative.
| Thirteenth Representative District, thlr-
| tenth and fourteenth wards, one Representa-
| tive.
Fourteenth Representative District, six
| tenth and seventeenth wards, one Repre-
| sentative.
Fifteenth Representative District, fifteenth
| ward, one Representative.
| The parish OF Ascension, one Representa-
| tive.
The parish Of Assumption, two Representa-
| tives.
| The parish of Avoyelles, two Representa-
| tives.
The parish Of East Baton Rouge, two Rep
resentatives.
The parish OF West Baton Rouge, one Rep
resentative.
The parish Of Bienville, one Representa-
| tive.
| The parish of Bossier, one Representative
The parish Of Caddo, two Representatives
The parish OF Calcasieu, one Representa-
! tive
The parish Of Caldwell, one Representative
/ The parish of Cameron, one Representa-
| tive.
The parish Of East Carroll, one Represen
| tive.
The Parish Of West Carroll, one Represen.
tative.
The Parish Of Catahoula, one Representa-
1 tive
The parish of Claiborne, two Representa-
| tives.
The parish Of Concordia, one Representa-
| tive.
The parish of De Soto. two Representa-
| tiveS.
The parish of East Feliciana, two Repre-