ARTICLE IX.
Census and Apportionment of Representation.
Section 1. The General Assembly shall, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, and in the year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, and every tenth year thereafter, cause an enumeration to be made
of all the inhabitants of the State; and to the whole number of white
inhabitants shall be added three-fifths of the number of colored people; and
they shall then proceed to apportion the representation equally among the
different counties, according to such enumeration, giving, however, one
representative to every county, and increasing the number of representatives on
a uniform ratio of population, according to the foregoing basis, and which ratio
shall not be changed until a new census shall have been taken.
Section 2. The General Assembly shall also, after every such
enumeration, proceed to fix by law the number of Senators which shall constitute
the Senate of the State of Florida, and which shall never be less than
one-fourth nor more than one-half of the whole number of the House of
Representatives; and they shall lay off the State into the same number of
Senatorial Districts, as nearly equal in the number of inhabitants as may be,
according to the ratio of representation established in the preceding section,
each of which districts shall be entitled to one Senator.
Section 3. When any Senatorial District shall be composed of two or
more counties, the counties of which such district consists shall not be
entirely separated by any county belonging to another district, and no county
shall be divided in forming a district.
Section 4. No county now organized shall be divided into new counties,
so as to reduce the inhabitants of either below the ratio of representation.
Section 5. The several counties of this State shall be entitled to the
following Representatives, viz: Escambia three, Santa Rosa two, Walton two,
Holmes one, Washington one, Calhoun one, Franklin one, Jackson four, Gadsden
three, Leon four, Wakulla one, Liberty one, Jefferson three, Madison two,
Hamilton two, Lafayette one, Taylor one, Suwannee one, Columbia two, Baker one,
Bradford one, Alachua two, Nassau one, Duval two, Clay one, St. Johns one,
Putnam one, Marion two, Sumter one, Orange one, Volusia one, Brevard one, Levy
one, Hernando one, Hillsborough one, Manatee one, Monroe one, Dade one,
and Polk one. There shall be twenty-nine Senatorial Districts in this State,
which shall be as follows: The county of Escambia shall compose the First
district; the county of Santa Rosa shall compose the Second District; the county
of Walton shall compose the Third District; the counties of Washington and
Holmes shall compose the Fourth District; the county of Franklin shall compose
the Fifth District; the county of Calhoun shall compose the Sixth District; the
county of Jackson shall compose the Seventh District; the county of Gadsden
shall compose the Eighth District; the county of Liberty shall compose the Ninth
District; the county of Leon shall compose the Tenth District; the county of
Wakulla shall compose the Eleventh District; the county of Jefferson shall
compose the Twelfth District; the county of Madison shall compose the Thirteenth
District; the county of Hamilton shall compose the Fourteenth District; the
counties of Lafayette and Taylor shall compose the Fifteenth District; the
county of Columbia shall compose the Sixteenth District; the county of Suwannee
shall compose the Seventeenth District; the counties of Baker and Bradford shall
compose the Eighteenth District; the county of Alachua shall compose the
Nineteenth District; the county of Nassau shall compose the Twentieth District;
the counties of Duval and Clay shall compose the Twenty-First District; the
counties of St. Johns and Putnam shall compose the Twenty-Second District; the
county of Marion shall compose the Twenty-Third District; the county of Sumter
shall compose the Twenty-Fourth District; the counties of Orange and Volusia
shall compose the Twenty-Fifth District; the counties of Levy and Hernando shall
compose the
Twenty-Sixth District; the counties of Hillsborough and Manatee shall compose
the Twenty-Seventh District; the counties of Polk and Brevard shall compose the
Twenty-Eighth District; and the counties of Monroe and Dade shall compose the
Twenty-Ninth District; and each Senatorial District shall be entitled to one
Senator.
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