Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-03
LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS.
App0rtiOnment of the Several COun-
ties of New Mexico Into Council
and Representative Districts.

Section 1920 of the Compil Laws of
New Mexico provides that Hereafter, at
the first session of the legislative assem-
bly, after the census shall have been taken
by the United States marshal in con-
formity with the laws of the United States.
and every ten years thereafter, it shall be
incumbent upon said legislative assem-
bly, to apportion the members of the
council and house of representatives as
near as practicable to the different coun-
ties according to the organic law of this
territory. y If the Legislature should
fail or refuse to make the apportionment
according to the provisions of this act,
then and in that case it shall be the duty
of the governor of the territory, within
thirty days after the adjournment of the
legislative assembly, whose duty it is to
make the aprortionment according to
the provisions of this act; and it further
shall be his duty, thirty days previous to
the next ensuing election, to issue his
proclamation for said election according
to the apportionment by him 30 made"
The legislative assembly of 1891 having
failed to make the apportionment pro.
vided for in the foregoing, Gov. Prince
made an apportionment whereby the ter
ritory was divided into Legislative districts
az follows:
Council--1st district, Colfax, Mora and
Union counties, one member; I'd district,
San Miguel and Guadalupe counties, two
members; Sd district, Taos, Rio Arriba and
San Juan counties, two members; 4th dis
trict, Santa Fe county, one member; 9Th
district, Bernalillo county, two members;
9Th district, Valencia county, one mem
Der; 9TH district, Socorro and Sierra coun-
ties, one member; 9Th district, Grant and
Dona Aua counties, one member; 9th dis
trict, Grant, Dona Ana, Lincoln, Chaves
and Eddy counties, one member.
House-lst district, Colfax county, one
ty, one representative; 3rd district, Col
fax, Mora and Union counties, one repre-
sentative, the law providing that Union
county shall elect this representative; 4th
district, San Miguel and Guadalupe count
les, four representatives, Guadalupe
county being accorded one of those repre-
sentatives; 9Th district, Santa Fe county
two representatives.; 9Th district, Taos
county, one representative; 9TH district
Rio Arriba county, one representative
9th district, Taos, Rio Arriba and San
Juan counties, two representatives; 9th
district, Bernalillo county, three repre-
sentatives 10th district, Valencia county
two representatives; 18th district, Socor
no and Sierra counties, two representa-
tives; 18th district, Dona Ana county, on
representative; 18th district, Grant ooun
ty, one representative; 14th district, Dom
Ana and Grant counties, one representa-
tive; 18th district, Lincoln, Chaves ant
Eddy counties, one representative.
Above is the apportionment made b.
Gov. Prince on March 20, 1891, excep
that Union county is added to the Bro
representative district, as provided il
the act of 1898 creating that county
chapter 49, laws of 1898. Section 10 o
this act provides: "For representation
in the legislature of the territory of New
Mexico the county of Union is hereb,
attached to the counties of Colfax ant
Mora, and with the said counties of Col
fax and, Mora shall jointly elect on
member of the territorial council, ant
each of the said counties of Colfax, Nor,
and Union shall elect one member to tn
territorial house of representatives"