The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-09-27

the city Of Natehez shall have one.
Fourteenth District-LoWndes eoun-
ty shall have three Representatives.
two of whom to be elected by that
portion OF the county east ofTombig-
bee River and one from that portion
ofth county west of said river.
Fifteenth District-Lee county shall
have two Representatives and Lee and
ltawamba FlOater between them.
Sixteenth District-0ktibbeha eoun-
ty shall have two Representatives, one
to be elected by that portion of the
county lying east of the line running
North and South between ranges Is
and II and the other by that portion
Of the county west of said line.
In the counties divided into Legis-
lative Districts any citizen of the
county eligible for election 10 the
House of Representatives shall be eiig-
ible to represent any District thereof.
Pending consideration, Mr. McLaur-
in, of Sharkey, offered substitute to
reduce the number of Representatives
to 100. Lost.
MIR. Palmer moved to reduce the
Representatives to one for each county.
Rejected by vote on division of So
to SO.
The Senatorial apportionment, as
adopted, provides for forty-tive Sena-
tors Ia thirty-six Districts, as follows:
First District-Hancock, Harrison,
Jackson, one Senator.
Second pistriet-Wayne, Jones,
Perry, Greene, one Senator.
Third District---Jasper, Clark, one.
Fourth Distriet-Simpson, Coving.
ton. Marion and Pearl River, one.
Filth Districi-l.ankin and Smith,
one
Sixth District-Pike and Franklin,
one.
Seventh Dislrict-Amite and VIII
kinson, one.
Eighth District-Llncoln and Law
renee, one.
Ninth District-Adams, one.
Tenth Observation-Disclosures and JEFF
ferson, one.
Eleventh District-Copiah, one.
Twelfth District--HInds and War
rcn, one each and one between them.
Thirteenth District-Scotta and New
ton, one.
Fourteenth Dlstrict-Lauderdale,
ono.
Fifteenth District-Kemper and
Winston, one.
Sixteenth District-Noxubec, one.
Seventeenth District-Lake and
Neshoba, one.
Eighteenth Decentralization one.
Nineteenth District-fazoo, one.
Twentieth District-Sharkey and
Issaquena, one.
Twcnty-first District-Holmes, one.
Twenty-secondD District-Attals, one.
Twenty-third District = Oktibbeha
aud Chickasaw, one.
Twenty-fourth nistrict-=Clay and
Webster, one.
Twenty : fifth District - Lowndes,
one.
Twenty-sixth District--Carroll and
Montgomery, one.
Twenty-seyenth District = Leforo
and Tallahatchie, one.
Twenty-cighth Observation-Disclosures
and Grenada, one.
Twety-ninth Observation-Disclosures
and Sunflower; the county Of Wash
iugton to elect one, and Washington
and Sunflower one between them.
Thirtieth District-Bolivar, one.
Thirty-frst District - Chickasaw,
Calhoun and Pontotoc two. Both at
no time to be chosen from same
county.
Thirty.second District-Lafayctte,
one.
Thirty-third District-Panola, one.
Thirty-fourth District = Coahoma,
Tunica and Quitman, one.
The report was adopted to and in
cluding the Thirty-fourth District,
when the convention adjourned.
The following are the additional
districts reported by the committee,
and which will probably not be
changed:
Thirty-fifth District-DeSoto, one.
Thirty. sixth District-Union, Tip
pah, Benton, Marshall and Tate, three,
one of whom shall reside In Union or
Tipdah, one IN Benton or East Mar
shall, and one in West Marshall or
Tate.
Thirty-seventh District-Tishomin-
90, Alcorn, Prentiss, one.
Thirty-eighth District-Monroc, Lee
and Itawamba, two, one of whom shall
be resident of Monroe and the other
q resident of Lee or Itawamba.
Section 2. It shall be tho duty of the
Legislature, at Its first session after the
Federal census of 1900, and decennially
thereafter, to make new apportion-
ment of Senators and Representatives.