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ARTICLE
VII. CENSUS AND
APPORTIONMENT. Section
1. The Senators
representing the odd numbered districts, as said districts are now designated,
whose terms have not expired, and those Senators representing even numbered
districts, to be elected A. D. 1886, under the Constitution of 1868, shall be
the first Senate under this Constitution; and the members of the Assembly to
be elected A. D. 1886 shall be the first House of Representatives under this
Constitution, and the Senate and House of Representatives thus constituted shall
be the first Legislature under this Constitution, and the terms of office of
each of the said Senators and members of the House of Representatives shall
expire at the election for Senators and members of the House of Representatives
A. D. 1888, and in that year a new Senate and House of Representatives shall
be elected. Section
2. The Legislatures
that convene in the year 1889 and thereafter, shall consist of not more than
thirty-two members of the Senate, and of not more than sixty-eight members of
the House of Representatives. The members of the House of Representatives shall
be elected for terms of two years, and the members of the Senate shall be elected
for terms of four years, except as hereafter provided, the elections for members
of the Senate and House of Representatives to be held at the same time and places.
The terms of Senators elected in 1888 from districts designated by even numbers,
shall expire at the end of two years from that date, and thereafter all Senators
shall be elected for four years, so that one-half of the whole number shall
be elected biennially. Section
3. The Legislature
that shall meet A. D. 1887, and those that shall meet every ten years thereafter,
shall apportion the representation in the Senate, the whole number of Senators
not to exceed thirty-two members; and Section
4. When any Senatorial
District is 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. Any new county that may be created shall be entitled to one member
in the House of Representatives until the next apportionment thereafter; and
shall be assigned when created to one of the adjoining Senatorial Districts
as shall be determined by the Legislature. Section
5. The Legislature
shall provide for an enumeration of all the inhabitants of the State by counties
for the year 1895, and every ten years thereafter.
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