Holmes County herald., 1963-01-17

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
TO AMEND SECTION 254 OF HE
MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF
1890 TO APPORTION THE Mem
BERSHIP OF THE MISSISSIPPI
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TO CONSIST OF l22 MEMBERS
AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE RE
ION OF The
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
DECENNIALLY THEREAFTEh;
TO AMEND SECTION 255 OF THE
MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF
1890 TO APPORTION THE MEM
BERSHIP OF THE MISSISSIPPI
STATE SENATE TO CONSIST OF
50 MEMBERS AND TO PROVIDE
FOR THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE SEN
ATE DECENNIALLY TIL F.
AFTER; AND TO REPEAL SEC
TON 256 OF THE MISSISSIPPI
CONSTITUTION OF 1890.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEG
STATURE OF THE STATE OF
MISSISSIPPI, TWO-THIRDS (z5)
OF He SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCUR
RING THEREIN, That the following
amendments to the Constitution or
the State of Mississippi of 1890 be
submitted to the qualified electors
Of the state for ratification or rcjec-
ton at an election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
Of February, 1868: y.
Amend Section 254, Mississippi
Constitution of 1890, SO that it will
read as follows:
Section 254. The House of Rep
resentatives until the next succeeding
apportionment shall be composed OF
one hundred and twenty-five (l22)
members, to be apportioned as fol
lows:
|. The counties of Alcorn, Amite.
Alfalfa, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne
Clarke, Clay, Covington, DeSoto
Franklin, George, Greene, Grenada
Hancock, Humphreys, Issaquena, TIA
wanda, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson
Davis, Kemper, Lafayette, Lamar
Lawrence, Leake, Marion, Marshall
Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton
Noxubee, Oktibb e h a, Pearl River
Perry, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman
Scott, Sharkey, simpson, Smith
Stone, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah
Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Walthall
Wayne, Webster, Wilkinson, Winston
and Yalobusha shall each have on
Representative.
,. The counties of Adams, Goa
homa, Copiah, Forrest, Holmes, Lee
Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison
Monroe, Pamela, Pike, Rankin, Sun
flower, Warren, and Yazoo shall eac.
have two ~ Representatives.
8. The counties of Bolivar, Jackson
tones, Lauderdale, and W~ashingto
Shall each have three 90 Represer
tativeS.
A. The county of Harrison sha
have six (6) Representatives.
5. The county of Kinds shall hav
nine (9) Representatives.
6. The Legislature may, within an
county IldNiliS iioiC hlai oN NF
sentative, provide for the election {
Representatives in such county 2
dividing such county into districts Il
the election of Representatives, or {
providing for the election OF Repr'
sentatives by posts, or by providir
for the election of Representativt
from election districts or posts with
the county, and all existing statut
in regard thereto, where not incoi
sistent herewith, shall be valid ar
binding until further action OF Il
Legislature in regard thereto.
7. The Legislature may, by a tw'
thirds (2s) vote of all membe
present and voting in both House
within ten (10) years after the Fe'
eral Census of 1870, and within eaC
ten-year period thereafter, make
new apportionment of the House
Representatives, provided that in ea'
apportionment each county shall ha'
not less than one Representative, pr
vided, further, that the number
members in the House OF Represe
tatives shall never exceed n hu
dred and twenty-five (l22).