Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-27
FIFTH AMENDMENT.
.on,ner THIS AMENDMENT.

The different paragraphs of this amend
ment being. necessarily interdependent,
are considered as one amendment-)
Strike out paragraph 3 of Section I. of
Article " and insert in place thereof
the following:
3. Elections for members Of the Senate
and General Assembly shall be held every
two years on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, beginning an
no domini one thousand nine hundred and
ten. and every second year thereafter;
and the two Houses shall meet separately
on the second Tuesday In January in
each year, at which time of meeting the
legislative year shall commence. \
Strike out paragraph l of Section II.
Article ~. and insert in place thereof the
following:
1. The Senate shall be composed of one
Senator from each county IN the State,
elected by the legal voters of the ooun-
ties respectively. for four years.
Strike out paragraph 2 of Section II. of
Article ". and insert In place thereof the
following:
q AS soon as the Senate shall meet
after the first election to be held In pur-
suance OF this constitution they shall be
divided by the Senate as equally as may
be into two classes. The seats of the
Senators of the first class shall be va
Gated at the expiration of the second
year.; of the second class, at the expira-
ton of the fourth year. so that one class
may be elected every second year and If
acanc happen, by resignation or 9th
erwise, the persons elected to supply such
shall be elected for the unex-
pired terms only; provided. that the SEN
ators having the longest period of time
still to serve at the time of making said
division shall be entitled to the longer
terms.
Strike out paragraph 1 of Section III.
Article ~, and insert In place thereof the
following:
!. The General Assembly shall be com
posed of members elected by the legal
voters of the counties, respectively, every
second year, beginning on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in November.
ammo domini one thousand nine hundred
and ten. who shall be apportioned among
the said counties as nearly as may be
according to the number of their inhab-
itants. The Legislature shall, In the year
one thousand nine hundred and ten, and
at It's first session after each United
States decennial census hereafter, and
not ~oftener. divide and arrange each
county of this State into a district or dis
tricts for the election therein of a mem
Der or members of the General Assembly.
Each Assembly district 30 constituted
shall contain. as nearly as practicable,
a N equal number of inhabitants, and shall
consist of convenient and contiguous ter
ritory In a compact form, but no coun-
ty, or part thereof, shall be Joined with
any other county, or part thereof, in any
such district; provided, that each county
shall. at all times, be entitled to at least
one member, and the whole number OF
members to be chosen shall never exceed
sixty.
The Court of Last Resort, by whatever
name known. is hereby invested with ex-
elusive original jurisdiction and with full
power. under such procedure as 1t may
by rules prescribe, to review any division
and rrangement made by the Legisla.
ture into Assembly districts of the coun-
ties of this State for the purpose of de-
termining whether such arrangement and
division or any nar.mA sa342a&nk -