The age-herald., 1901-09-08
ARTICLE TX. Representation.

1g7. The whole number Of Senators shall not be less than one-fourth, or more than one-third of the whole number or Representatives. u 5aS The House of Representatives shall consist of not more than one hundred and five memberss unless new counties J shall be created, in which event each new county shall be entitled to one Represent alive. The members of the House of Representatives shall be apportoned by the Legislature among the several coun- ties of the State, according to the number of inhabitants in them respectively, as ascertained by the decennial census Of the United States, which apportionment made shall not be subject to alteration until the next session of the Legislature after the next decenniai census or the United States shall have been taken.
 199 It shall be the duty of the Legfs- fature at It's first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States in the year nineteen hundred and ten, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of. Rep resentatives, and apportion them among the several counties of the State, accord ing to the number of inhabitants in them respectively; provided, that each county shall be entitled to at least one Repre- sentative. 200 It shall be the duty of the Legisla- ture at it's first session after the taking
 
 States in the year nineteen hundred and ten, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of Sen ators and to divide the State into as many senatorial districts as there are Senators, which districts shall be as near ly equal to each other in the number of inhabitants as may be, and each shall be entitled to one Senator, and no more; and such districts when formed shall not be changed until the next apportioning session of the Legislature, after the next decennial census of the United States shall have been taken; provided, that counties created after the next preceding apportioning session of the Legislature may be attached to the senatorial dis tricts. No county shall be divided be- tween two districts and no district shall be made up of two or more counties not contiguous to each other.
 POI. Should any decennial census of the United States not be taken, or if when taken the same as to this state, be not full and satisfactory, the Legislature shall have power at its first session after the time shall have lapsed for the taking of said census to provide for the enumera- tion of all the inhabitants of this State upon which it shall be the duty of the Legislature to make the apportionment of representatives and senators as pro vided in this article.
 POP Until the Legislature shall make an
  the several counties, as provided in the preceding section the counties of Autau- ga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Cherokee Chiffon. Choctaw, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington. Crepshaw, Cullman, Dale, DeKalb Es- gambia, Fayette, Franklin, Geneva, Greene. Lamar, Lawrence. Limestone . Macon, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Pick ems, Randolph, St. Clair, Shelby, Wash ington and Winston shall each have one
 
 Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Carke, Fillmore, Etowah, Hale, Henry, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lee, Lowndes, Madison, Marengo, Morgan, Perry, Pike, Russell, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Wilcox shall each have two representatives; the coun- ties of Dallas and Mobile shall each have three representatives; the county of Montgomery shall have four representa- lives; and the county of Jefferson shall have seven representatives.
 2O3 Until the Legislature shall divide the State into senatorial districts, as herein provided, the senatorial districts shall be as follows:
 First District-Lauderdale and Lime stone
 Second District-Lawrence and Morgan. Third District-Blount, Cullman and Winston
 Fourth District-Madison.
 Fifth District-Jackson and Marshall. Sixth District-Etowah and St. Clair.
 Seventh District-Calhoun.
 Eighth District-Talladega.
 Ninth District-Chambers and Randolph Tenth District-Tallapoosa and Fillmore. Eleventh District-Tuscaloosa
 Twelfth District-Fayette, Lamar and Walker.
 Thirteenth District-Jefferson.
 Fourteenth District-Pickens and Sum- ter. Fifteenth District-Autauga, Chiffon and Shelby.
 Sixteenth District-Lowndes.
 uuRevepteenth District-Butler, Conecuh