The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-17

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
% AMEND SECTION 254 OF THE
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-
APPORTIONMENT OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
DECENNIALLY THEREAFTER;
TO AMEND SECTION 255 OF THE
MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF
1890 TO APPORTION THE MEM
BERSHIP OF THE MISSISSIPPI
STATE SENATE TO CONSIST OF
81 MEMBERS AND TO PROVIDE
FOR THE REINFORCEMENT
OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE SEN
ATE DECENNIALLY THERE
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 (2s)
OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCUR
RING THEREIN, That the following
amendments to the Constitution OF
the State of Mississippi of 1890 be
submitted to the qualified ~elector,
of the state for ratification or rejec-
ton at an election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
of February 1863. D.
.#f 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 opp
members, to be apportioned as fol
lows:
L. The counties of Alcorn, Amite
Attala, 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.
1~ishomingo, Tunica, Union, Walthall
Wayne, Webster, Wilkinson, Winston,
and Yalobusha shall each have one
Representative.
2. The counties of Adams, Goa
homa, Copiah, Forrest, Holmes, Lee,
Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison,
Monroe, Pamela, Pike, Rankin, Sun
flower, Warren, and Yazoo shall each
have two ~ Representatives.
3. The counties of Bolivar, Jackson,
Jones, Lauderdale, and Washington
shall each have three (3) Represen-
tativeS.
a. The county of Harrison shall
have six (6) Representatives.
5. The county of Kinds shall have
nine (9) Representatives.
6. The Legislature may, within any
county having more than one Repre-
sentative, provide for the election of
Representatives in such county by
dividing such county into districts for
the election of Representatives, or by
providing for the election of Repre-
scntatives by posts, or by providing
for the elec' on of Representatives
from election districts or posts within
the county, and all existing statutes
in regard thereto, where not incon-
sistent herewith, shall be valid and
binding until further action of the
Legislature in regard thereto.
Z. The Legislature may, by a two
thirds (2s) vote of all members
present and voting in both Houses,
within ten (l0) years after the Fed
eral Census of 1870, and within each
ten-year period thereafter, make a
new apportionment of the House of
Representatives, provided that in each
apportionment each county shall have
not less than one Representative, pro-
vided, further, that the number of
members in the House of Represen-
tatives shall never exceed one hun
bred and twenty-five (122).