The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10

ii. 5. Parent-Teacher association.
are each representative of a SEN
atorial district and the boundaries
and composition of the districts
are determined when the general
assembly reapportions its member
ship and as nearly as practicable
and the population of each dis
trict must be equal to that of ev-
cry other district and it is re-
quired that no county shall be put
in two districts.
The house of representatives, be-
ing composed of 100 members for
the 100 counties of the state, is
required to have one representa-
tive for each county and the re-
naming 20 are to be apportioned
among the more populous coun-
ties by a rule set out in the con-
stitution in article 2 section 6,
which provides that the total pop
ulation of the state shall be di-
vided by 120 and the number of
counties having that number of
inhabitants or less shall be as
signed one representative each.
Then the total of the actual pop
ulations of these counties shall be
added and that sum %subtracted
from the total population of the
state, the remainder to be used
as a basis of division. When this
remainder number of representa-
tlves is divided into the remain
der population OF the state (after
the least populous county inhabi-
tants and representatives h
been excluded there results a ba-
sic numer of inhabitants to be used
in apportioning the remainder of
the representatives.
The constitution r e r e S he
pointed out last night, that after
each remaining county has been
assigned one representative, then
those having twice such number
OF population shall have n ad-
ditional representative and each
county having three times such
number of inhabitants shall have
three representatives. Then those
counties having the largest frac-
ton over the necessary one, two,
or three multiple of the base num-
Der, shall be assigned an addi-
tional representative each in Or
der until all of the 100 represen-
tatives have been assigned.
Three Each
For the past 20 years, he point
ed out, Mecklenburg, Guilford
Forsythe and Wake counties have
each had three members in the
Buncombe, Rowan, Johnston, Rob-
eson, Pitt, Wayne, Halifax, Rock
ingham, Nash and New Hanover
have each had two, and the other
counties one. 2
The constitution requires, Hobbs,
pointed out, that following each
national census the general assem-
bly, shall reapportion the mem
bership of the senate (Art. II, Sect.
a and that at 1.-THE respective
time and periods" of the senate
re-apportionment the membership
OF the house shall be likewise re-
apportioned. Cart. II, Sec. 81
Using the population figures CIV
en- in the University News Letter
of Sept. II, 1910, Hobbs said it
appears the next legislature will
have a real struggle in reappor-
tioning both the senatorial districts
and the number of representatives
to be assigned the various coun-
ties.
Apparently, he said, the new Or
der will be something like the fol-
lowing in the house of representa-
tives:
Guilford and Mecklenberg coun-
ty will have four representatives
each; F%orsythe, Wake, and Bun
combe, three each; CASTOR, Dur
ham, Rowan, Johnston, Robson,
Pitt, Wayne and Cabarrus, two
each.
If the legislature can agree on
a redistribution of senatorial dis
tricts and get a majority for both
reapportionments in house a n d
senate, then the new distribution
house members apears to
change about as follows, he said:
Guilford and Mecklenberg, hav-
ing three each will have four; For
and Wake, having three,
low will hold and Buncombe hav-
ng two now will have three. Gas
ON, Durham, Rowan, Johnston,
Pitt, Robson, and Wayne, having
wo now will hold and Cabarrus,
one will now have two. Hal
fax, Nash, Rockingham and New