Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-20
THE KEpIsrRICrISG BILL.
AIT Passed the First Reading In Both
Houses of the Tennessee
Legislature.

Houses
Legislature.
The following is full text of tho bill
unanimously reported by the joint commit
tee appointed for redis ricting the State,
and apportioning the representations, and
which passed both houses of the Legislature
on Saturday:
A bill to be entitled an act to apportion the
several counties of the State into Senatorial
and Representative districts, under the
enumeration made in 1881, in pursuance of
article 2, section of the constitution.
Section i. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that
until the next enumeration and apportion-
ment of ratios, each of the following coun-
ties shall elect one representative, to-wit:
Cooke, Sewer, Jefferson, Granger, Clai-
borne, Blount Monroe, McMinn, Roane,
Putnam, Smith, DeKalb, White, Warren,
Cannon, Coffee, Overton, jackson, Frank
lin, Lincoln, Marshal, Bedford, Sumner,
Williamson, Robertson, Stewart, Humph-
! reys. Dickson, Hickman, Hardin, McNairy,
Hardeman, Fayette, Upton, Haywood,
Madison, Henderson, Benton, Carol, Crock
EFT, Lauderdale, Dyer Obion, Weakley and
. Warren.
Sec .. Be it further enacted:
That the following counties each elect two
Representatives, to wit Knox, Hamilton,
rutherford, Wilson, Giles, Maury, Mont
gomery and Gibson.
Sec 3. Be it further enacted:
That Davidson and Shelby counties shall
elect five Representatives.
See. 4. Belt further enacted:
That counties jointly shall elect one Rep
resentative Az follows Carter and johnson
Washington, Unicoi, Greene and Sullivan
Hamblen, Hawkins and Hancock Loudon
and Knox; Union and Campbell; Brady
and Polk; James, Meigs and Rhea Marion
and Grundy; Sequatchee, Bledsoe, Van
Buren, and Cumberland Anderson and Nor
gan; Scott Fentress and Pickett; Macon
and Clay; Trousdals, Sumner and Smith
Lincoln and Monroe; Rutherford Bedford
and Marshal; Maury and Williamson Cheat
ham, Montgomery and Houston Lawrence
and Wayne; Lewis, Perry and Decatur ;
Obion, Lake and Dyer; Fayette and Harde
man; Haywood and Upton; Weakley and
Henry ; Madison and Henderson.
Sec. BE it further enacted:
That until the next enumeration and ap-
pointment Of votes the following counties
shall compose Senatorial Districts to wit:
First district-Carter, johnson, Sullivan,
Washington and Unicoi.
Second district-Greene, Hawkins and
Hancock.
Third district-Sevier, Cooke, Jefferson
and Halnblin.
Fourth Granger Union, Camp
bell and Scott
Fifth district-Knox and Anderson.
Sixth district-Blount Monroe, Loudon
and Roane.
Seventh district-Polk, Bradley, Meigs,
McMinn and James.
Eighth Decentralization and Marion.
Ninth district-Grundy, Sequatchie,
Bledsoe, Van Buren,, Rhea, Cumberland.
Tenth district-Cannnon, Warren, De-
Kaib and Putnam.
Eleventh district-Macon, Clay, jackson,
Overton, Pickett and Fentress.
Twelfth district Trousdale Sumner and
Robertson.
Thirteenth district Smith and Wilson.
Fourteenth district-Rutherford and
Coffee.
Fifteenth district Williamson and Mar
shall
Sixteenth district Franklin, Moore and
Bedford
Seventeenth district-Lincoln and Giles.
Eighteenth district-Maury and Lewis
Nineteenth DISQUALIFICATION.
twentieth dlstrlct-Montgomery and
Stewart.
Twenty district-Hickman, Hum
phreys, Dickson and Houston
Twenty third district-Lawrenee, Wayne,
Hardin and Perry.
twenty -fourth district-McNairy and
Hardeman.
Twenty fifth district-Madison and Hen
. derson
Twenty-sixth district Carroll Putnam
and Decatur
Twenty district-Henry and
Weakley.
Twenty -eigth district-Obion Lake and
Dyer.
Twenty ninth district-Haywood Laud
erdale and Crockett.
Thirty first distriet-Fayette and Upton
Thirty second Enthusiastically.
Thirty third district
Section 6-Rs it further lenactsd, That
this act take effect from and efter It's pas
sage, the public welfare requiring it.