The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22


 titled to at least one representative.
 200. It shall De tue duty nf the Leg | ielature at IS fifst session after tho | takinr of the decenffial -censhs of the | United States hi the year nineteen hsinc l dred and efi,arfd after each subseddent1 I decennial census. to 1tx by law tho number of Senators and to divide the | State into as many Senatorial districts as there are Senators. which districts shall be as nearly 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 dis triets when formed shall not be chang ed until the. next appcrtfoniug session hf the Legislature after the next de- cennial census of the United States shall have been taken; provided. that counties created after the next preced-s ing apportionine session. Of dhe9 EeHts.0 T lature may be attached to Senatorial l districts. No county shall be divided shall be made up of two or more coun- | ties not contiguous to each other. 101. Should any decennial census Of 1 the United States not be taken. or if when taken, the same. as to this State, he not full and satisfactory. the Legis. lature shall have power at its first ses- sion after the time shall have elapsed for the taking of said census to pro- vide for an enumeration of all the in- habitants of this State. upon which it shall be the duty of the Legislature to make the apport onment of Reps esenta- lives and Senators as provided in this article. EN' POP. Until the Legislature shall make an appertionment of Representatives among the several counties. as pro- | vided in the preceding section, tho counties of Autauga. Baldwin, Bibh. Blount,- Cherokee, Chiffon. .Choctaw. Clay, Cleburne. Coffee. Colbert. Cone cuh, Coosa, Covington.> Crenshaw. Gull man, Dale, DeKalb, Escambia. Fayette. Franklin, Geneva, Greene. Lamar. Law renee. Limestone. Macon. Marion, Mar shall Monroe, Pickene. Randolph, St! Clair, Shelby, Washington and Winston shall each have one Representative; l the counties of Barbour. Bullock, But | Ter, Calhoun, Chambers, Clarke, El- more, Etowah, Hale, Henry, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lee, LOwndes. Madison, | Marengo, Morgan. Perry, Pike. Russell, Sumter Talladega, TallapoosA, Tusca- loosa, Walker and Wilcox shall each have two Representatives: the counties of Dallas and Mobile shall each have | three Representatives.; the county of | Montgomery shall have four Represen- | tatiyes; and the county of Jefferson | shall. have seven Representatives. ,|
 203. Until the Legislature shah divide | the State into Senatorial districts. as | herein provided, the Senatorial dis l tricts, shall be as fellowes:. First Dis trict ,Lauderdale and Limestone; Sec- l ond District, Lawrence and Morgan; Third District. Blount, Cullman and | winston; Fourth District. Madison: | Fifth District, Jackson and Marshall; I rNAN N1al Seventh District, Calhoun: Eighth Dis trict. Talladega; Ninth District, Cham bers and Randolph: Tenth District. l Tallapoosa and Fillmore; Eleventh Dis l trict, Tuscaloosa: Twelfth District | Fayette, Lamar and Walker; Thir- teenth District, Jefferson; Fourteenth
 District, Pickens and Sumter; Eff teenth District, Autauga, Chiffon and
 Shelby; Sixteenth District, Lowndes;
 Seventeenth District, Butler, Con-
 ecuh and Covington; Eighteenth
 District, Bibb and Perry; Nine Teenth District, Choctaw. Clarke and washington; twentieth district. Baldwin, Escambia and Monroe; twen- ty-second district, Wilcox; twenty-third. district, Dale and Geneva; twenty | fourth district, Barbour; twenty-hfth district, Coffee, Crenshaw and PKG; I twenty-sixth district, Bullock and Ma con; twenty seventh district, Lee and Russell; twenty-eighth. district, Mont | gomery; twenty-n ninth district. Chero- kee and DeKalb; thirtieth disrict, Dal-. Iias; thirty first district, Colbert, Frank
 lin and Marion; thirty-second district,
 Greene and Hale; thrty-third distret,
 Mobile; thirty-fourth district, Cleburne,
 Clay and Coosa; thirty-f1fth district,
 Henry. z--,
 ARTICLE x.
 Exemptions.
 204. The personal property of any
 resident of this State, to the value of
 $1, 900, to be selected by such. resident,
 shall be exempt from sale on execu-
 ton, or other process of any court, is-
 sued for collection of any debt con-
 tracted since the 18th day of July, 1868,
 or after the ratification of this Consti-
 tuition.
 20S. Every homestead not exceeding
 eighty acres, and the dwelling and ap-
 purtenances thereon, to be selected by
 the owner thereof, and not in any city,
 town or village; or in lieu thereof, at
 the option of the owner, any lot in
 city, town or village, with the dwelling
 occupied by any resident of this State,
 and not exceeding the value of 5000,
 shall be exempt from sale on execution,
 or any other process from court for
 any debt contracted since the 18th day
 of July, 1888, or after the ratification of
 this Constitution. Such exemption,
 however, shall not extend to any mort
 gage lawfully obtained, but such mort
 gage or other alienation of said home
 stead by the owner thereof, if mar
 ried man, shall not be valid without
 the voluntary signature and assent of
 the wife to the same.
 200. The homestead of the family,
 after the death of the owner thereof,
 shall be exempt from the payment of
 any debts contracted since the 18th day
 of July, 1868. or after the ratification of
 this Constitution, in all cases, during
 the minority of he children.
 20i. The provisions Of Sections 204
 and 205 of this Constitution shall not
 pc so construed as to prevent a labor
 CTS lien for work done and performed
 Tor the person claiming such exemp-
 tlon. or a mechanics lien for work done
 on the premises.
 zOS. If the owner of homestead die,
 ieaVl1g widow, but no children, such
 homestead shall be exempt, and the
 her benefit.
 ZV'. The real and personal property
 or any female in this State. acquired
 peIore marriage, and all property. real ana personal, to which she may after
 wards be entitled by gift, grant. in-
 heritance or devise, shall he and re-
 main. the separate estate and propertv
 of such female, and shall moi be iIabIe l f0P anV dRbfa - --t~0'~