The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-08-30
TIE APPORTIOxMENf PLAN.
A Report Submitted BY the Sub-C0m-
mIftee on Franchise.
ISneclsl to the Commercial.

mIttee on Franchise.
Especial TO the Commercial.
Jackson, Miss, Aug. 25.-The Sub
Committee of Ten on Apportionment
have reported to the Full Committee
ON Franchise and Apportionment the
following plan OF apportiOnment;
The committee recommends that the
Senate shall consist of thirty-fve men,
bers, to be elected from districts as
follows:
District No. to have 3 votes, and
to be composed of the counties of
Tishomingo, Prentiss, Itawamba, AL
corn and Monroe. Estimated voting
strength: White 4s,746, black 1851.
District No. to have 8 votes, and
to be composed of the counties Of Tip
pah, Benton, Marshall, Tate and Union.
Estimated voting strength: White
45,742, black S9,107.
District No. 8 to have 4 votes and
be composed of the counties of Lee,
Chickasaw, Pontotoc, Calhoun, Yalo-
bushs, Lafayette and Pamela. Estima-
ted voting strength; White 69,4O6,
black 64,307.
District No. to have 5 votes and
to be composed of the eounues of
Noxubee, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay
and Kemper, Estimated voting
strength: White 29,47S, black SO, 1884
District No. 5 to have 5 votes and
TO be composed Of the counties OF
Grenada, Attala, Webster, Winston,
Carroll, Montgomery and Choctaw.
Estimated voting strength: White
50,7lS, black 42,S49.
District No. 8 to have votes and
to be composed OF the souaties OF
Simpson, Rankin, Leake, Scott, Nesho-
ba, Newton and Lauderdale. Estima-
ted voting strength: White 5l,S17,
black 40,650.
District No. 7 to have 3 votes, and
to be composed of the counties OF
Claiborne, Warren, Sharkey, Yazoo
and Holmes. Estimated voting
strength; White 2s,5OS, black S5,sss.
District No. s to have votes, and
to be composed of the counties OF
Kinds, Madison, Copiah and Jefferson.
Estimated voting strength: White
$3.50, black 1854.
District No. 9 to have votes, and
to be composed of the counties OF
Adams, Franklin, Lincoln, Lawrence,
Covlngton, Jones, Wayne, Greene,
Clarke, Smith aud Jasper: Estimated
voting strength White $4,000, black
56,443.
District No. 10 to have 8 votes, and
to be composed of the counties OF
Wilkinson, Amite, Pike, Marion, Pearl
River, Perry, Hancock, Harrison and
Jackson. Estimated voting strength
White 44,25s, black 40,S3s.
District No. IL to have 4 votes, and
to be composed of the counties of De-
Soto, Tunica, Ooahoma, Boliyar Quit
man, Sunhower, Issaquena, Leilore
Tallahatchie and Washington. Esti.
mated voting strength White 26,723
black 10l l,67l.
The committee recommends that the
House of Representatives shall consist
of 1880 membeas, as follows.
The counties of Choctaw, Claiborne
Covington, Franklin, Greene, Grenada
Hancock, Harrison, Issaquena, Jefler
son, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Leflorc
Marion, Montgomery, Neshoba, Pear
River, Perry, Quitman, Scott, sharkey
Simpson, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahat
chic, Tishomingo, Tunica, Wayne
Webster and Winston shall have eact
one member.
The county Of Adams shall have on'
member and the city of Natchez ont
member.
The county of lttawanba shall have
one member and TIE co oInty Of lie,
two members. These counties shal
have 6oater between them.
The counties of Amite aud Lincoln
shall have each one member and ,
noater betwee them.
The counties of Alcorn, Attala, Ben
ton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Clarke
Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Kemper
, Leake, Madison, Newton, Pike, Pom
totoc, Prentiss, Rankin, Tate, Tippah
Union, Wilkinson aud Yalobusha shal
: each have two members.
The county of Yazoo shall have thre,
aud the county Of Holmes two mem
hers, and a floater between them.
The counties of Copiah, Lauderdale
,, Marshall, Pamela, Warren and Wash
ngton shall have three members each
The county of llinls shall have foul
members.
In the county of Lowndes there shal
be one member to beats and B; on,
member to beats l and 3, aud OH,
: member to beat 2 of said county.
: In The county of Chiekasaw Their
shall be one member elected for ih,
First Judicial and one member from
the Second judicial District Of sale
county.
In the county of Oktibbeha Their
shall be one member from the Firs
District, consisting of that part of sal,
county east of o line running nortl
and south on Che eastern boundary o
D the city of Starkville, and one fron
0 the Second District of said count,
9 consisting of that part west of sai'
line.
From the county of Clay there shal
be one member from the First District
: consisting of that part of said count.
lying east of the Sukatonicha River
! and one from tho Second District 0
said county, lying west of said river.
The county Of Monroe shall be diYi
. ded into two legislative districts. Th
Q First District shall consist Of the cit
u of Aberdeen and that portion of th
county east of the Tombigbee Rive
= and the Second District shall compria
= the remainder of the county tho
each district shall have one member c
the Legislature, and there shall be on
member elected from the county .
y largo.
+ The county of Noxubce shall be d
: vided into two legislative districts, th
g first to consist of that part of sal
+ county lying north aud cast of th
q Noxubee River, exclusive of the tow
n of Macon, and the second consisting {
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