The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-31

have power at It's ftrst Sessiou aLter the time shall have elapsed for the taking of said census, to provide for an enumeration of all the inhabitants of this State, and once in each ten years thereafter. upon which 1t shall be the duty of the General Assembly to make the apportionment of represen- tatives and senators as provided in this article,
 6. The apportionment of representa- lives among the several counties, until the next apportioning session of the General Assembly after the next de- cennial census of the United States shall have been taken, shall be as fol- lows: The counties of Autauga, Bald win. Bibb, Blount. Butler, Cherokee. Chiffon. Choctaw, Clay, Cleburne, Cof- fee. Colbert. Conecuh, Coosa, Coving- ton. Crenshaw, Cullman. Dale, De- Kalb. Elmore, Escambia. Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Geneva, Greene, Lamar. Lawrence, Limestone, Macon, Marion. Marshall. Monroe. Pickens, Randolph. Shelby, St. Clair, Walker, Washington and Winston, shall have each one representative: the counties of Barbour. Bullock. Calhoun. Cham bers. Clarke. Hale. Henry, Jackson, Lauderdaie. Lee, Lowndes, Madison, Marengo. Morgan, Perry. Pike, Russell, Sumter. Talladega, Tallapoosa. Tusca- loosa and Wilcox shall each have two representatives,; the counties of Dallas and Mobile shall each have three representatives; the County of Mont gomery shall have four representa- tives; and the County of Jefferson shall have six representatives.
 2. The Senatorial Districts. until the next apportioning session of the Gen. eral Assembly. after the decennial canat1a of tho TYpffad GfofAo ohol hovo been. shall be as follows First Dis trict. Lauderdale and Limestone; Sec ond District, Lawrence and Morgan; Third District, Winston, Blount and Cullman; Fourth District, Madison: Fifth District. Jackson and Marshall; i; Sixth District, St. Clair and Etowah i; Seventh District. Calhoun and Cle- burne; Eighth District, Talladega and Clay; Ninth District, Randolph and Chambess: Tenth District. Tallapoosa and Coosa; Eleventh District, Tusca- cite and Walker: Thirteenth District. Jefferson: Fourteenth District. Pick ems and Sumter; Fifteenth District, Chiffon. Shelby and Fillmore; Sixteenth District. Autauga and Lowndes; Sew enteenth District, Butler, Conecuh and Covington; Eighteenth District, Perry and Bibb: Nineteenth District, Clark, Choctaw and Washington; Twentieth District. Marengo; Twenty-ffrst Dis trict. Monroe, Escambia and Baldwin; Twenty-second District, Wilcox; Twen- ty-third District, Henry, Dale and Ge- neva: Twenty-fourth District; Bar bour: Twenty-fifth District, Pike, Cof- fee and Crenshaw; Twenty-sixth Dis trict Macon and Bullock; Twenty seventh District, Lee and Russell; Twenty-eighth District, Montgomery; Twenty-ninth District, DeKalb and Cherokee: Thirtieth District, Dallas Thirty-first District, Colbert, Franklin and Marion; Thirty-second District, Greene and Hale; Thirty third Distrist, Mobile.
 Referred to Committee on Represen- tation.
 Ordinance 112. by MT. Kirk:
 An ordinance to amend Sections 3, and of Article W of the Constitu- tion.
 Section 3 shall be amended to read as follows:
 Senators and Representatives shall be elected by the qualified electors on the first Monday in August, 1902, and every four years thereafter, unless the General Assembly shall change the time of holding elections, The terms of the office of Senators and Represen- tatives shall be four years, commence ing on the day after their election.
 Section shall be amended to read as follows:
 The General Assembly shall meet in regular session at the Capitol, in the Senate Chamber and in the hall of the House of Representatives on the Tues day after the second Monday in Mo- vember. 1902. and every four years thereafter. or on such other day as he nFAgorthad hV iv1 cases of destruction of the Capitol. or epidemics, when the Governor may convene them at such place in the State as he may deem best), and shall continue in session not more than fif- ty days, and at said regular session it shall not consider any matter or law of local character; and any local measure enacted at such regular ses- sion shall be void. On the day fol- lowing the adjournment of tine regu- lar session. the General Assembly it shall assembled at the same place in special session and continue in session for a term not to exceed twenty days, and may at such session consider measures and laws of local character.
 That Section g be amended by strik- ing out all of said section except the latter clause thereof. which section shall read as follows:
 Whenever a vacancy shall occur in either House of the General Assembly, the Governor shall issue writ of cleo tion to fill such vacancy for the re- mainder of the term.
 Referred to Committee on Legisla- tive Department.
 Ordinance No. 113, by MT. Kirkland: :
 To amend Section of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Ala bama.
 Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in convention as- sembled. That Section 2 of Article II of the present Constitution be amended as follows:
 Section 2. The boundaries of tho sev- eral counties of this State. as hereto fore established by law, are hereby ratified and confirmed. The General Assembly may, by a vote of two-thirds of both houses thereof. arrange and designate boundaries for the several counties of this State. which bounda- ries shall not be altered except by a like vote; but no new counties shall be hereafter formed of less extent than five hundred square miles; and no ex- isting county shall be reduced to less extent than five hundred square miles, and no new county shall be formed which does not contain a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle it to une Representative under the ratio of representation existing at the time of its formation, and leave the county or counties from which it Is taken with the required number of inhabitants en- titling such county or counties to Sepa- rate representation.
 Referred to Committee on State and County Boundaries.