The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-10
ACT NO. rs.
House Bill No. 274.
JOINT RESOLUTION

JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article IS of
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana.
increasing the number of Representatives
Section /. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly Of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each
Constitution of the State of Louisiana be
submitted to the qualified electors of the
State for their approval or rejection as re-
quired by Article 321 of the Constitution,
at the Congressional election to be held on
the first Tuesday next following the first
Monday in November. 1910. amending diiig Art IT,
Article IS. Representation in the House
OF Repres entatives 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 f Of 1sl9 S ana
States census thereafter, the General Assem-
bly, shall and it is hereby directed to re-
apportion the representation among the sew,
eral parishes and representative districts on
basis of the total population shown by
such census. A representative number shall
be fixed. and each parish and representative
district shall have as many representatives,
such representative number is contained
in the total number of the inhabitants OF
such parish representative district as
shown by the last preceding United States
census, and additional representative
for every fraction exceeding one half the
representative number The number of rep
resentatives shall not be more than one nun
dred and twenty (120) nor less than ninety
eight (9S). provided that when a new par
sh or parishes is created, as author
lied by this Constitution, and the maximum
number of representatives have been prevl'
ously apportioned to other parishes, then
that such new parish parishes shall be
assigned representative each in addition to
the maximum one hundred and twenty fixed
herein and to that extent the maximum
shall be increased until the next apportion-
era Assembly at which time the maximum
of one hundred and twenty shall be restored.
That if 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 new parish. one OF such
representatives may be apportioned to the
new parish in the same act which nc O., creates =
eral Assembly of the State OF Louisiana at
its session in 1910, creating a new parish
or parishes and assigning repreen cent
Section 2. Be it further resolved. etc;
that the official ballot to be used at said
election shall have printed thereon re
words: "'F'or the proposed amendment to ar.
ticle 1s of the Constitution of the State OF
Louisiana authorizing. the increasing II the
number of representatives under cert !. con.
dition - against the proposed T. .dment
to Article 3 of the Constitution of State
of Louisiana authorizing the incr';ising OF
the number of representatives uncs certain
conditions. and each elector 81 II indicate
as provided in tie general ele" ION laws of
The State whether he votes FIR or against
the proposed amendment.
IT, G. DUPRE.
Speaker OF the House Of REPRESENTATIVES
P NJ LtMBREMONT
Lieutenant Governor and /, y esident of the
Senate
Approved June 20. 1910
J. Y. qw DERS,
Governor of the rate of Louisiana
JOHN T. MICHEL.
Secretary Of State