The Dolores star., 1922-10-13

posed Law of the State Of Colorado.
initiated by petition under the lnitia,
petition contained the signatures OF
more than the required number. (to-
wit: SSs) of the legal voters Of the
state of Colorado. duly verified. in ac-
cordance with the law, and filed i'm the
office OF the Secretary of state on the
Sixth day OF July. \. ID. 1922 at 2l5
l.. NJ.
The authority for submitting such
proposed law is found in Section OF
Article V of the Constitution of the
state of Colorado. providing for the
Initiative and Referendum.
AN ACT TO ALTER THE SENATOR
IAL AND REPRESENTATIVE DIS
TRICTS AND REVISE THE AP-
PORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS OF
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
lie Il enacted by the People of the
state of Colorado;
Section |. The General Assembly Of
the State OF Colorado shall consist or
one hundred members, and the Senate
thereof shall consist OF tbirty-five
members and the House of Representa-
tives of siNty-five members. Provided
that no senatorial or representative
district shall embrace the same terri
tory within any other senatorial or
representative district
Section .. Until otherwise provided
by law, the State of Colorado shall be
divided into senatorial districts. num-
bered and entitled to the number of
senators as follows:
The City and County of Denver shall
constitute the first senatorial district
and be entitled to nine senators.
The County of Pueblo shall constitute
the second senatorial district and be
entitled to two senator's.
The County of EI Paso shall con.
',titute the third senatorial district and
be entitled to two senators.
The County of Las Animas shall con-
stitute the fourth senatorial district
and be entitled to one senator.
The County of Boulder shall const
tute the fifth senatorial district and
be entitled to one senator.
The Counties of Grand. Summit. Gil
and Pitkin shall constitute the sixth
senatorial district and be entitled to
one senator.
The County of Weld shall constitute
the seventh senatorial district and be
entitled to two senators.
The Counties of jefferson and
Douglas shall constitute the eighth
senatorial district and be entitled to
The Counties of Fremont. Teller and
Custer shall constitute the ninth SEN
atorial district and be entitled to one
The County of Larimer shall con-
stitute the tenth senatorial district and
be entitled to one senator.
The Counties of Delta, Gunnison ana
Chaffee shall constitute the eleventh
senatorial district and be entitled to
one senator.
and Phillips shall constitute the
twelfth senatorial district and be en-
titled to one senator.
The Counties of Moffat Routt. jack
son. Rio Blanca and Garfield shall CON
stitute the thirteenth senatorial dis
trict and be entitled to one senator.
The counties OF Costilla and Huer-
fauo shall constitute the fourteenth
senatorial district and be entitled to
The Counties of Saguuche. Rio
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stitute the fifteenth senatorial district
and be entitled to one senator.
The County of Mesa shall constitute
the sixteenth senatorial district and be
entitled to one senator.
The Counties of Montrose. San
Miguel. Dolores and Ouray shall con-
trict and be entitled 10 one senator,
The Counties of Montezuma. La
Plata, Hinsdale. Mineral san Juan
and Archulcta shall constitute the
entitled to one senator.
The Counties of Adams and Morgan
shall constitute the nineteenth scna-
torial district and be entitled TO one
senator.
The Counties of Arapahoe and Ell
bert shall constitute tire twentieth
The Counties of Washington and
Yuma shall constitute the twenty-frst
senatorial district and be entitled to
The Counties of Kiowa. Bent. Baca
and Prowers shall constitute the
twenty-second Sc latOrial district ana
be entitled to one senator.
The Counties of OtcrO and Crowley
shall constitute the twenty third sem
atorial district and be entitled to one
The Counties of Lincoln. Kit Carson
and Cheyenne shall constitute the
twenty fourth senatorial district and
be entitled to one senator.
Section 3. -Four Senators shall be
elected from the first senatorial dis
trict two from the seventh senatorial
third. fourth. fifth. eighth. ninth.
eleventh. thirteenth, nineteenth, TWEEN
ty-first, twenty-third and twenty
fourth districts at the general election
cessors shall be elected every four
years thereafter
Five Senator'S shall be elected from
the first senatorial district and one
each from the second. third, sixth,
tenth. twelfth, fourteenth. fifteenth,
sixteenth. seventeenth, eighteenth.
twentieth and twcnty-second districts
at the general election held in Nov
ember. 1926, and their successors shall
be elected every four years thereafter.
Section 4. Nothing in this act shall
any senator from his office for the
term for which he may have been
elected: Provided, That in case of a
vacancy caused by the death, resigna-
or senators. the vacancy shall be filled
from the new district. as provided for
in this act. and in the event that any
new county is created at any time after
the passage Of this Act and the legisla-
ture has not provided for the attaching
of said new county to a specifically
mentioned district. then such new
county shall be deemed to be in the
senatorial and representative districts
that said territory was in prior to its
creation.
Section 5. The members of the House
of Representatives shall be divided
among the several counties of the state
as follows:
The City and County of Denver shall
have sixteen.
The County of Pueblo shall have
four.
The County of Ell Paso shall have
three.
The County of Weld shall have four.
The County of Boulder shall have
two.
The County of Larimer shall have
two.
The County of Logan shall have one.
The Counties of Sedgwick and
Phillips shall have one.
The County of Yuma shall have one.
The County of Washington shall