The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-12

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JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment 10 Article Is of
sI.e consultation VI me State vi Louisiana.
increasing the number of representatives
Section l.. Be II resolved by the General
thirds of all the members elected to eSeh
House concurring. that an amendment to the
Constitution OF the state OF Louisiana ,S be
State for their approval or rejection. as re-
quled by Article 32l Of the Constitution
the first Tuesday next following the first
Monday in November. 1910, amending Aru-
lie IS OF the Constitution of Louisiana so
ms TO read as follows:
Article ls. Representation in the House
of Representatives shall be equal and UNI
form, and shall be based upon population
New Orleans shall have at least one repre-
sentative. At its first regular session after
each United States census of 1910. and at
its first regular session after eacn .nisea
bly, shall and il is hereby directed to re-
apportion the representation among the sew
erai parishes and representative dissricts on
such census. A representative number snail
be fixed. and each parish and representative
district shall have as many rePresent.aiilvedT
in the total number OF the inhabitants OF
such parish or representative district. as
shown by the last preceding United s.s s;es
for every fraction exceeding one-haii the
representative number. The number OF rep
resentatives shall not be more than one hun
dred and twenty (120) nor less than ninety
eight (9S), provided that when new par
ish or parishes is or are created, as author
lied by this Constitution, and the maximum
number of representatives have been previ-
ously apportioned to other parishes then
that such new parish or parishes snail De
assigned representative each In ADDITION 70
the maximum one hundred and twenty hxed
herein and to that extent the maximum
shall be increased until the next apportion-
ment of representatives is made by the Cen
eral Assembly, at which time the maximum
of one hundred and twenty shall be restored
That il there is more than one representa-
tive in a parish from which the larger por-
ton of the territory is taken for the pur-
pose of creating a new parish. one OF such
representatives may be apportioned 70 the
new parish in the same act which creates
eral Assembly Of the State of Louisiana at
its session in 1910. creating new parish
or parishes and assigning 2 representative
Section 2. Be il further resolved. etc:
that the OFFICIAL ballot to be used at said
election shall have printed thereon the
ticle Ia of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana. authorizing the increasing of the
number of representatives under certain con.
To Article IS OF the Constitution Of the State
Of Louisiana authorizing the increasing Of
the number of representatives under certain
conditions and each ele-tor shall indicate
rs provided in tie general election laws OF
the State whether he votes for or against
the proposed amendment
VI. G. DUpRE.
Speaker OF the House of REPRESENTATIVES.
p NJ. L.MRREM0NT.
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved June 20. 1910.
u " SANDERS.
Governor of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN T. MICHEL
Secretary of State