it may lie, be equal to the ratio fixed by law for one representative, then the aforesaid county, city or town, having the largest residuum, shall be entitled to such representation; And provided also, That when there are two or more counties adjoining, which have residuums over and above the ratio then fixed by law, if said residuums, when added together, will amount to such ratio, in that case one Representative shall be added to that county having the largest residuum. Miss., 336.

-The Legislature shall at their first session, and at periods of not less than every four, nor more than every six years, until the year 1845, and thereafter at periods of not less than every four, nor more than every eight years, cause an enumeration to be made of all the free white inhabitants of this State, and the whole number of Representatives shall, at the several periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by the Legislature, and apportioned among the several counties, cities or towns entitled to separate representation, according to the number of free white inhabitants in each, and shall not be less than thirty-six nor more than one hundred; Provided, however, That each county shall always be entitled to at least one Representative. Miss., 337.

-When any county shall be entitled to more than one Senator, the County Court shall cause such county to be subdivided into as many compact and convenient districts as such county may be entitled to Senators; which districts shall be, as near as may be, of equal population; and the qualified voters of each of such districts shall elect one Senator, who shall be a resident of such district. Mo., 352.

-Senators shall be apportioned among their respective districts, as nearly as may be, according to the number of permanent inhabitants in each. Mo., 352. -Senators and Representatives shall be chosen according to the rule of apportionment established in this Constitution, until the next decennial census taken by the United States shall have been made, and the result thereof as to this State ascertained, when the apportionment shall be revised and adjusted on the basis of that census. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and every tenth year thereafter, there shall be taken, under the authority of this State, a census of the inhabitants thereof, and after every such census the apportionment of Senators and Řepresentatives may be based thereon until the next succeeding national census, after which it may be based upon the national census until the next succeeding decennial State census; and so on from time to time; the enumerations made by the United States and this State shall be used, as they respectively occur, as the basis of apportionment. Mo., 353.

-Senatorial and representative districts may be altered, from time to time, as public convenience may require. When any senatorial district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be contiguous. Mo., 353.

-The House of Representatives shall consist of members to be chosen every second year, by the qualified voters of the several counties. and apportioned in the following manner. Mo., 352. -The ratio of representation shall be ascertained at each apportioning session of the General Assembly, by dividing the whole number of permanent inhabitants of the State by the number two hundred. Each county having one ratio, or less, shall be entitled to one Representative; each county having three times said ratio shall be entitled to two Representatives; each county having six times said ratio shall be entitled to three Representatives; and so on above that number, giving one additional member for every three additional ratios. When any county shall be entitled to more than one Representative, the County Court shall cause such county to be subdivided into as many compact and convenient districts as such county may be entitled to Representatives; which districts shall be, as near as may be, of equal population; and the qualified voters of cach

of such districts shall elect one representative, who shall be a resident of such district. -No person shall be a member of the House of Representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-four years; who shall not be a white male citizen of the United States; who shall not have been a qualified voter of this State two years, and an inhabitant of the county which he may be chosen to represent one year next before the day of his election, if such county shall have been so long established; but if not, then of the county from which the same shall have been taken; and who shall not have paid a State and county tax. Mo, 352. --The Senators and Representatives shall be chosen by districts of convenient contiguous territory, as compact as may be, to be defined by law, except as to the first election which is hereinafter provided for. Neb., 171.

--The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and at their first session after such enumeration, and also after each enumeration_made by the authority of the United States, the Legislature shall apportion and district anew the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, and soldiers and officers of the United States army and navy. Neb., 371. --The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State shall be taken under the direction of the Legislature, if deemed necessary, in A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; A. D., eighteen hundred and seventyfive, and every ten years thereafter; and these enumerations, together with the census that may be taken under the direction of the Congress of the United States, in A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy, and evry subsequent ten years, shall serve as the basis of representation in both Houses of the Legislature. Nev., 392.

-The General Assembly shall be composed of members annually elected by the legal voters of the counties, respectively, who shall be apportioned among the said counties as nearly as may be, according to the number of their inhabitants. The present apportionment shall continue until the next census of the United States shall have been taken, and an apportionment of members of the General Assembly shall be made by the Legislature at its first session after the next and every subsequent enumeration or census, and when made shall remain unaltered until another enumeration shall have been taken; Provided, That each county shall at all times be entitled to one member; and the whole number of members shall never exceed sixty. N. J., 413. -For the first ten years, after the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, the apportionment of Representatives shall be, as provided in the schedule, and no change shall ever be made in the principles of representation, as herein established, or in the senatorial districts, except as above provided. All territory, belonging to a county at the time of any apportionment, shall, as to the right of representation and suffrage, remain an integral part thereof, during the decennial period. Ohio, 441.

The Governor, Auditor, and Secretary of State, or any two of them, shall, at least six months prior to the October election, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and at each decennial period thereafter, ascertain and determine the ratio of representation, according to the decennial census, the number of Representatives and Senators each county or district shall be entitled to elect, and for what years, within the next ensuing ten years, and the Governor shall cause the same to be published, in such manner as shall be directed by law. Ohio, 442. -Where two or more counties are joined in a senatorial, representative, or judicial district, the returns of elections shall be sent to the county having the largest population. Ohio, 445. --The Senators and Representatives shall be chosen

by the electors of the respective counties or districts into which the State may, from time to time, be divided by law. Or., 450.

-And in case any county shall not have the requisite population to entitle such county to a member, then such county shall be attached to some adjoining county for senatorial or representative purposes. Or., 450.

-A senatorial district, when more than one county shall constitute the same, shall be composed of contiguous counties; and no county shall be divided in creating senatorial districts. Or., 450.

-In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour, and in every seventh year thereafter, Representatives to the number of one hundred shall be apportioned and distributed equally throughout the State by districts, in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitants in the several parts thereof, except that any county containing at least three thousand five hundred taxables, may be allowed a separate representation, but no more than three counties shall be joined, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a district. Any city containing a sufficient number of taxables to entitle it to at least two Representatives, shall have a separate representation assigned it, and shall be divided into convenient districts of contiguous territory, of equal taxable population as near as may be, each of which districts shall elect one Representative. Pa., 471.

[Senators apportioned according to taxable inhabitants.] Pa., 461, 471.

-The House of Representatives shall consist of one hundred and twenty-four members, to be apportioned among the several election districts of the State, according to the number of white inhabitants contained in each, and the amount of all taxes raised by the General Assembly, whether direct or indirect, or of whatever species, paid in each, deducting therefrom all taxes paid on account of property held in any other district, and adding thereto all taxes elsewhere paid on account of property held in such district. An enumeration of the white inhabitants for this purpose was made in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and shall be made in the course of every tenth year thereafter, in such manner as shall be by law directed; and Representatives shall be assigned to the different districts in the above-mentioned proportion, by act of the General Assembly at the session immediately succeeding every enumeration; Provided, That until the apportionment, which shall be made upon the next enumeration, shall take effect, the representation of the several election districts, as herein constituted, shall continue as assigned at the last apportionment, each district which has been heretofore divided into smaller districts, known as parishes, having the aggregate number of Representatives which the parishes heretofore embraced within its limits have had since that apportionment, the Representative to which the parish of All Saints has been heretofore entitled, being, during this interval, assigned to Horry election district. S. C., 482.

-In assigning Representatives to the several districts, the General assembly shall allow one Representative for every sixty-second part of the whole number of white inhabitants in the State, and one Representative, also, for every sixty-second part of the whole taxes raised by the General Assembly. There shall be further allowed one Representative for such fractions of the sixty-second part of the white inhabitants, and of the sixty-second part of the taxes as, when added together, form a unit. S. C., 483.

If, in the apportionment of Representatives, any election district shall appear not to be entitled, from its population and its taxes, to a Representative, such election district shall nevertheless send one Representative; and if there be still a deficiency of the number of Representatives required by section fifth, such deficiency shall be supplied by assigning Representatives to those election districts having the largest surplus fractions, whether those fractions consist of a combination of population and taxes, or of population

or taxes separately, until the number of one hundred and twenty-four members are made up; Provided, however, That not more than twelve Representatives shall, in any apportionment, be assigned to any one election district. S. C., 483.

-No apportionment of Representatives shall be construed to take effect, in any manner, until the general election which shall succeed such apportionment. S. C., 483.

-The number of Representatives shall, at the several periods of making the enumeration, be apportioned among the several counties or districts according to the number of qualified voters in each; and shall not exceed seventy-five until the population of the State shall be one million and a half; and shall never thereafter exceed ninety-nine; Provided, That any county having two-thirds of the ratio, shall be entitled to one member. Tenn., 492. -The number of Senators shall, at the several periods of making the enumeration, be proportioned among the several counties or districts, according to the number of qualified electors in each, and shall not exceed one-third the number of Representatives. In apportioning the Senators among the different counties, the fraction that may be lost by any county or counties, in the apportionment of members to the House of Representatives, shall be made up to such county or counties in the Senate as near as may be practicable. When a district is composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining; and no county shall be divided in forming a district. Tenn., 492.

-When a senatorial district shall be composed of two or more counties it shall not be separated by any county belonging to another district. Tex., 507. -The Senators shall be apportioned to the several counties, according to the population as ascertained by the census taken under the authority of Congress in the year 1840, regard being always had, in such apportionment, to the counties having the largest fraction, and giving to each county at least one Senator. Vt., 530.

-The Legislature shall inake a new apportionment of the Senators to the several counties, after the taking of each census of the United States, or after a census taken for the purpose of such apportionment, under the authority of this State, always regarding the above provisions of this article. Vt., 530.

-Each county, city and town of the respective districts at the time of the first election of its Delegates under this Constitution, shall vote for one Senator, and the Sheriffs or other officers holding the election for each county, city or town within ten days at the farthest after the last election in the district, and from the polls so taken in their respective counties, cities and towns, return as Senator the person who has received the greatest number of votes in the whole district. Va., 535.

--The whole number of members to which the State may at any time be entitled in the House of Representatives of the United States, shall be apportioned as nearly as may be, amongst the several counties, cities and towns of the State according to their population. Va., 537.

In the apportionment, the State shall be divided into districts corresponding in number with the Representatives to which it may be entitled in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, which shall be formed respectively of contiguous counties, cities and towns, be compact, and include, as nearly as may be, an equal number of population. Va., 537.

-For the election of Senators, the State shall be divided into nine senatorial districts; which number shall not be diminished, but may be increased as hereinafter provided. Every district shall choose two Senators, but after the first election both shall not be chosen from the same county. The districts shall be equal, as nearly as practicable, in white population, according to the returns of the United States census. They shall be compact, formed of contiguous territory, and bounded by county lines. After every such census the Legislature shall alter the sena

torial districts, so far as may be necessary to make them conform to the foregoing provisions. W. Va.,

549.

-Any senatorial district may at any time be divided, by county lines or otherwise, into two sections, which shall be equal, as nearly as practicable, in white population. If such division be made, each section shall elect one of the Senators for the district; and the Senators so elected shall be classified in such manner as the Senate may determine. W. Va., 549. -For the election of Delegates, every county containing a white population of less than half the ratio of representation for the House of Delegates, shall, at each apportionment, be attached to some contiguous county or counties, to form a delegate district. W. Va., 549.

-When two or more counties are formed into a delegate district, the Legislature shall provide by law that the Delegates to be chosen by the voters of the district shall be in rotation, residents of each county, for a greater or less number of terms, proportioned, as nearly as can be conveniently done to the white population of the several counties in the district. W. Va, 549.

-After every census the Delegates shall be apportioned as follows:

The ratio of representation for the House of Delegates shall be ascertained by dividing the whole white population of the State by the number of which the House is to consist, and rejecting the fraction of a unit, if any, resulting from such division.

Dividing the white population of every delegate district, and of every county not included in a delegate district, by the ratio thus ascertained, there shall be assigned to each a number of Delegates equal to the quotient obtained by this division, excluding the fractional remainder.

The additional Delegates necessary to make up the number of which the House is to consist, shall then be assigned to those delegate districts, and counties not included in a delegate district, which would otherwise have the largest fractions unrepresented. But every delegate district and county not included in a delegate district, shall be entitled to at least one Delegate. W. Va., 549.

-The arrangement of senatorial and delegate districts, and appointment of Delegates, shall hereafter be declared by law, as soon as possible after each succeeding census taken by authority of the United States. When so declared, they shall apply to the first general election for members of the Legislature to be thereafter held, and shall continue in force, unchanged until such districts are altered and Delegates apportioned under the succeeding census. W. Va., 550.

-For the election of Representatives to Congress, the State shall be divided into districts, corresponding in number with the Representatives to which it may be entitled; which district shall be formed of contiguous counties and be compact. Each district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal federal number, to be determined according to the rule prescribed in the second section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States. W. Va., 558. -Additional territory may be admitted into and become part of this State with the consent of the Legislature. And in such case provision shall be made by law for the representation of the white population thereof in the Senate and House of Delegates, in conformity with the principles set forth in this Constitution. And the number of members of which each branch of the Legislature is to consist, shall thereafter be increased by the representation assigned to such additional territory. W. Va, 550. -The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and at their first session after such enumeration, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the Legislature shall apportion and district anew the members of the Senate and Assembly, according to

the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, and soldiers and officers of the United States army and navy. Wis., 562.

The members of the Assembly shall be chosen annually by single districts on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, by the qualified electors of the several districts, such districts to be bounded by county, precinct, town or ward lines, to consist of contiguous territory, and be in as compact form as practicable. Wis., 562.

-The Senators shall be chosen by single districts of convenient contiguous territory, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the Assembly are required to be chosen, and no assembly district shall be divided in the formation of a senate district. The senate districts shall be numbered in regular series, and the Senators chosen by the odd numbered districts shall go out of office at the expiration of the first year, and the Senators chosen by the even numbered districts shall go out of office at the expiration of the second year, and thereafter the Senators shall be chosen for the term of two years. Wis., 562. -Until there shall be a new apportionment, the Senators and members of the Assembly shall be apportioned among the several districts, as hereinafter mentioned, and each district shall be entitled to elect one Senator or member of the Assembly, as the case may be. Wis., 573.

-The foregoing districts are subject, however, so far to be altered that when any new town shall be organized, it may be added to either of the adjoining assembly districts. Wis., 575.

-The population of the townships in the several counties of the State, and of the several wards, shall be ascertained by the last preceding census of the United States, until the Legislature shall provide, by law, some other mode of ascertaining it. N. J., 418. --This apportionment shall be made by the General Assembly, at the respective times and periods when the districts for the Senate are herein before directed to be laid off, and the said apportionment shall be made according to an enumeration to be ordered by the General Assembly, or according to the census which may be taken by order of Congress, next preceding the making such apportionment. N. C., 427.

-In making the apportionment in the House of Commons, the ratio of representation shall be ascertained by dividing the amount of federal population in the State. after deducting that comprehended within those counties which do not severally contain the one hundred and twentieth part of the entire federal pop-. ulation aforesaid by the number of Representatives less than the number assigned to the said counties. To each county containing the said ratio, and not twice the said ratio, there shall be assigned one Representative; to each county containing twice, but not three times the said ratio, there shall be assigned two Representatives, and so on progressively; and then the remaining Representatives shall be assigned severally to the counties having the largest fractions. N. C., 427.

The apportionment of this State for members of the General Assembly, shall be made every ten years after the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone, in the following manner: The whole population of the State, as ascertained by the federal census, or in such other mode as the General Assembly may direct, shall be divided by the number "one hundred," and the quotient shall be the ratio of representation in the House of Representatives for ten years next succeeding each apportionment. Ohio 440.

Every county, having a population equal to onehalf of said ratio, shall be entitled to one Representative; every county containing said ratio and threefourths over, shall be entitled to two Representatives; every county containing three times said ratio, shall be entitled to three Representatives; and so on, requiring, after the first two, an entire ratio for each additional Representative. Ohio, 441.

-When any county shall have a fraction above the ratio, so large, that being multiplied by five, the

law shall be passed increasing the compensation of the members of the Legislature beyond the sum of three dollars a day. N. Y. (1821), 36. -Each member of the General Assembly shall receive from the public treasury such compensation for his services as may be fixed by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such increase shall have been made. Ala., 76; (nearly similar), Ark., 87; Cal., 79; Del., 118; Fl., 133; Ind., 174; Miss., 338; Mo., 353; Nev., 383; Tex., 508; Va., 536.

-The pay of the members of the Legislature, until some general system of salaries shall be fixed by law, shall be for each member, five dollars per diem, and twenty cents per mile in going to, and the same in returning from the capital. Ark., 95.

-But no law varying the compensation shall take effect, until an election of the Representatives shall have intervened. Del., 118.

-The sum of two dollars per day for the first fortytwo days' attendance, and one dollar per day for each day's attendance thereafter, and ten cents for each necessary mile's travel, going to and returning from the seat of government, shall be allowed to the members of the General Assembly, as a compensation for their services, and no more. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be allowed the sum of one dollar per day, in addition to his per diem as a member. Ill., 153.

-Bills making appropriations for the pay of the members and officers of the General Assembly, and for the salaries of the officers of the government, shall not contain any provision on any other subject. IU., 153.

-The per diem and mileage allowed to each member of the General Assembly, shall be certified by the Speakers of their respective Houses, and entered on the journal, and published at the close of each session. Ill., 153.

-Each member of the first General Assembly under this Constitution shall receive three dollars per diem while in session; and the further sum of three dollars for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from the place where such session is held, by the nearest traveled route; after which they shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by law; but no General Assembly shall have the power to increase the compensation of its own members. And when convened in extra session they shall receive the same mileage and per diem compensation as fixed by law for the regular session, and none other. Iowa, 186. -The members of the Legislature shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of three dollars for each day's actual service at any regular or special session, and fifteen cents for each mile traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place of meeting; but such compensation shall not in the aggregate exceed the sum of two hundred and forty dollars for each member as per diem allowance for the first session held under this Constitution, nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars for each session thereafter, nor more than ninety dollars for any special session. Kan., 199.

-The members of the General Assembly shall severally receive from the public treasury a compensation for their services, which shall be three dollars a day during their attendance on, and twelve and a half cents per mile for the necessary travel in going to, and returning from, the sessions of their respective houses; Provided, That the same may be increased or diminished by law; but no alteration shall take effect during the session at which such alteration shall be made; nor shall a session of the General Assembly continue beyond sixty days, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, but this shall not apply to the first session held under this Constitution. Ky., 211. --The members of the General Assembly shall receive from the public treasury a compensation for their services, which shall be eight dollars per day, during their attendance, going to and returning from the sessions of their respective Houses. The com

pensation may be increased or diminished by law, but no alteration shall take effect during the period of service of the members of the House of Representatives by whom such alteration shall have been made. No session shall extend to a period beyond sixty days, to date from its commencement, and any legislative action had after the expiration of the said sixty days, shall be null and void. This provision shall not apply to the first Legislature which is to convene after the adoption of this Constitution. La., 228.

-The Senators and Representatives shall receive such compensation as shall be established by law, but no law increasing their compensation shall take effect during the existence of the Legislature which enacted it. The expenses of the members of the House of Representatives, in traveling to the Legislature and returning therefrom, once in each session, and no more, shall be paid by the State, out of the public treasury, to every member who shall seasonably attend, in the judgment of the House, and does not depart therefrom without leave. Me., 244. -The General Assembly shall continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may require, and each member thereof shall receive a compensation of five dollars per diem for every day he shall attend the sessions, but shall receive no per diem when absent, unless absent on account of sickness; Provided, however, That no member shall receive any other or larger sum than four hundred dollars. When the General Assembly shall be convened by proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, and in such case the compensation shall be at the rate of five dollars per diem. Md., 261.

-The compensation of the members of the Legislature shall be three dollars a day for actual attendance and when absent on account of sickness for the first sixty days of the session of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and for the first forty days of every subsequent session, and nothing thereafter. When convened in extra session their compensation shall be three dollars a day for the first twenty days, and nothing thereafter; and they shall legislate on no other subjects than those expressly stated in the Governor's proclamation, or submitted to them by special message. They shall be entitled to ten cents and no more for every mile actually traveled, going to and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route; and for stationery and newspapers not exceeding five dollars for each member during any session. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of the laws, journals and documents of the Legislature of which he was a member; but shall not receive at the expense of the State, books newspapers, or other perquisites of office, not expressly authorized by this Constitution. Mich., 302.

-The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be entitled to the same per diem compensation and mileage as members of the Legislature and no more. Mich., 302. -The compensation of Senators and Representatives shall be three dollars per diem, during the first session, but may afterwards be prescribed by law. But no increase of compensation shall be prescribed which shall take effect during the period for which the members of the existing House of Representatives may have been elected. Minn., 321.

-Each member of the Legislature shall receive for his services three dollars for each day's attendance during the session, and ten cents for every mile he shall travel in going to and returning from the place of the meeting of the Legislature, on the most usual route. Neb., 372.

Provided, however, That they shall not receive pay for more than forty days at any one session. --The Speaker of the Assembly, and LieutenantGovernor, and President of the Senate, shall each, during the time of their actual attendance as such presiding officers, receive an additional allowance of two dollars per diem. Nev., 383.