Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-06

LEGISLATIVE APPoRTIoynESr


LEGISLATIVE APPoRTIosMEST.
House Bill No. 81 was introduced
by Judge Lewis. It provides for a
reapportioDment of the members of
the Legislative Assembly. By
an omission Of someone, one repre-
sentative district was omi,ted-Thurs-
ton and Mason counties being svj-
IDENTIFY intended to constitute the
thirteenth district. Putting them in
place, the corrected bill reads as fol
lows:
The Council and House of
Representatives shall be and are ap-
portloned as near as may be In &C
cordance with the population Of the
Territory, in accordance with the
census Of 1885. and the several
Districts shall be as hereinafter de-
clared, and the several members of
the Council and House of Represeu-
tatives are apportioned among the
several districts as hereinafter pro-
vided.
The county of Walla walla shall
constitute the First Council District,
and shall be entitled TO and elect one
member
The counties of Columbia, Gar.
held and Asotin shall constitute the
Second Council District, and shall be
entitled 10 and elect one member.
The county of Whitman shall con-
stitute the Third Council District, and
shall be entitled to and elect one
member.
The counties of Spokane and
Stevens shall constitute the Fourth
Council District, and shall be entitled
TO and elect one member.
The counties of Lincoln, Douglas,
Franklin, Adams, Yakima and Kitti-
tas shall constitute the Fifth Council
District, and shall be entitled to and
elect one member.
The counties of Klickitat. Skama-
MIA and Clarke shall constitute the
Sixth Council District, and shall be
entitled to and elect one member.
The counties Of Clarke, Cowlitz,
Wahkiakum, Pacific and Chehalis
shall constitute the Seventh Council
District, and shall be entitled to and
elect one member
The counties of ThurstoH, Lewis
and Mason shall constitute the Eighth
Council District, and shall be entitled
to and elect one member.
The county OF Pierce shall consti-
tute the Ninth Council District, and
shall be entitled to and elect one
member.
The county of King shall consti-
tute the Tenth Council District, and
shall be entitled TO and elect one
member.
The counties of King, Kitsap and
Snohomish shall constitute the Elev-
enth Council District, and shall be
entitled to and elect one member.
The counties Of Whatcom, ekagit,
Island. San Juan. Clallam aud Jeffer-
son shall constitute the Twelfth
Council District, and shall be enti.
tied to and elect one member.
The members of the House of Rep
resentatives shall be apportioned as
follows:
Walla Walla county shall consti-
tute the First District and shall elect
two members.
Columbia county shall constitute
the Second District and shall elect
one member.
Garfield and Asotin counties shall
constitute the Third District and shall
elect one member.
Whitman county shall constitute
the Fourth District and shall elect
two members
Spokane county shall constitute
the Fifth District and shall elect one
member
Spokane and Stevens counties shall
constitute the Sixth District and shall
elect one member.
Lincoln. Douglas, Franklin and
Adams shall constitute the Seventh
District and shall elect one member.
Yakima and Kittitas counties shall
constitute the Eighth District and
shall elect enc member.
Klickitat and Skamanis counties
shall constitute the Ninth District
and shall elect one member.
Clarke county shall constitute the
Tenth District and shall elect one
member.
Clarke and Cowlitz counties shall
constitute the Eleventh District and
shall elect one member.
Wahkiakum, Pacific and Chehalis
counties shall constitute the Twelfth
District and shall elect one member.
Lewis county shall constitute the
Thirteenth District and shall elect
one member
Thurston and Mason counties shall
constitute the Fourteenth Dis
trict and shall elect one member.
Pierce county shall constitute the
Fifteenth District and shall elect two
members.
King county shall constitute the
Sixteenth District and shall elect
three members.
Kitcap and Snohomish counties
shall constitute the Seventeenth Dis
trict and shall elect one member.
whatcom and Sksgit counties shall
constitute the Eighteeath District
and shall elect one member.
jefferson. Island, Saa Juan and
| Clallam counties shall constitute the
Nineteenth District and shall elect
| one mem Der.
All acts and parts of acts in con-
tiict with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed. and the several
members OF the Legislative Assem-
bly shall be elected In the several
districts as hereinbcfore provided.
sAI.ARyINe COUNTY oFFICERs.
Mr.. Byrd has introduced House
Bill No 73, to define salaries OF certain
officers in certain counties IL pro
vides as follows:
All counties in the Territory OF
Washington containing q population
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