SEC. 5. Any senatorial district may at any time be divided by county lines of otherwise, into two sections, which shall be equal, as nearly as practicable a 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 classifed le such manner as the senate may determine. SEC. 6. Until the senatorial districts are altered by the legislature after the next census, the counties of Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio shall constitute the first senatorial district; Marshall, Wetzell, and Marion the second: Monongalia. Preston, and Taylor the third; Pleasants, Tyler. Ritchie, Doddridge, and Harrison the fourth; Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, and Gilmer the fifthBarbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, and Randolph the sixth: Mason. Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, and Nicholas the seventh; Cabell, Wayne. Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Mercer, and McDowell the eighth; and Webster, Pocahontas Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, and Monroe the ninth. SEC. 7. For the election of delegates, every county containing a white popu lation 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. SEC. 8. 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. SEC. 9. 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 wh.h 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 com. not included in a delegate district, which would otherwise have the largest fractions unrepresented. But every delegate district and county not incraded in a delegate district shall be entitled to at least one delegate. SEC. 10. Until a new apportionment is declared, the counties of Pleasants and Wood shall form the first delegate district: Calhoun and Gilmer the sad Clay and Nicholas the third: Webster and Pocahontas the fourth: Tucker gra Randolph the fifth; and McDowell, Wyoming, and Raleigh the sixth. The firs delegate district shall choose two delegates, and the other five one each SEC. 11. The delegates to be chosen by the first delegate district shall, for the first term, both be residents of the county of Wood, and for the second term, one shall be a resident of Wood, and the other of Pleasants County; and so in rotation. The delegate to be chosen by the second delegate district shall, for the first term, be a resident of Gilmer, and for the second of Calhoun County The delegate to be chosen by the third delegate district shall, for the first o terms, be a resident of Nicholas, and for the third term of Clay County. The delegate to be chosen by the fourth delegate district shall, for the first terms, be a resident of Pocahontas, and for the third term of Webster County. The delegate to be chosen by the fifth delegate district shall, for the first three terms, be a resident of Randolph, and for the fourth term of Tucker County. And the delegate to be chosen by the sixth delegate district shall, for the first term, be a resident of Raleigh, for the second term of Wyoming, for the third term of Raleigh, for the fourth term of Wyoming, and for the fifth term of McDowell County; and so, in each case, in rotation. SEC. 12. Until a new apportionment is declared, the apportionment of delegates to the counties not included in delegate districts shall be as follows: To Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Doddridge, Fayette. Hancock. Jackson, Lewis, Logan, Mason, Mercer, Putnam, Ritchie, Roane, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Wetzel, and Wirt Counties, one delegate each. To Harrison, Kanawha, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, and Preston Counties two delegates each. To Ohio County, three delegates. To Greenbrier and Monroe Counties together, three delegates; of whom, for the first term, two shall be residents of Greenbrier and one of Monroe County; and for the second term, two shall be residents of Monroe and one of Greenbrier County; and so in rotation. SEC. 13. If the counties of Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and Morgan become part of this State, they shall, until the next apportionment, constitute the tenth senatorial district, and choose two senators. And if the counties of Frederick, Berkeley, and Jefferson become part of this State, they shall, until the next apportionment, constitute the eleventh senatorial district and choose two senators. And the number of the senate shall be, in the first case, twenty, and in the last twenty-two, instead of eighteen. SEC. 14. If the seven last-named counties become part of this State, the apportionment of delegates to the same shall, until the next apportionment, be as follows: To Pendleton and Hardy, one each; to Hampshire, Frederick, and Jefferson, two each; and the counties of Morgan and Berkeley shall form the seventh delegate district, and choose two delegates; of whom, for the first term, one shall be a resident of Berkeley and the other of Morgan County; and for the second term, both shall be residents of Berkeley County; and so in rotation. But if the counties of Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and Morgan become part of the State, and Frederick, Berkeley, and Jefferson do not, then Pendleton, Hardy, and Morgan Counties shall each choose one delegate, and Hampshire two, until the next apportionment. The number of the house of delegates shall, instead of forty-seven, be in the first case fifty-seven, and in the last, fifty-two. SEC. 15. 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. SEC. 16. 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 numbers of members of which each branch of the legislature is to consist shall thereafter be increased by the representation assigned to such additional territory. CONSTITUTION: WISCONSIN-1848 SECTION 4. No person shall be deemed to have lost his residence in this State, by reason of his absence on business of the United States, or of this State. SECTION 5. No soldier, seaman, or marine in the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this State, in consequence of being stationed within the same. SECTION 6. Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery, or larceny, or of any infamous crime, and depriving every person who shall make, or become directly, or indirectly interested, in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, from the right to vote at such election. ARTICLE IV LEGISLATIVE SECTION 1. The Legislative power shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly. SECTION 2. The number of the members of the Assembly shall never be less than fifty-four, nor more than one hundred. The Senate shall consist of a number not more than one-third, nor less than one-fourth of the number of members of the Assembly. SECTION 3. 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, SECTION 4. 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. SECTION 5. 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 shal. 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. SECTION 6. No person shall be eligible to the Legislature, who shall not have resided one year within the State, and be a qualified elector in the district which he may be chosen to represent. SECTION 7. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qual fications of its own members; and a majority of each shall this Constitution, by a majority of all the votes given, it shall be the duty of the Governor of this Territory to make proclamation of the same, and to transmit a digest of the returns to the Senate and Assembly of the State, or the first day of their session. An election shall be held, for Governor, LieutenantGovernor, Treasurer, Attorney General, members of the State Legislature, and members of Congress, on the second Monday of May next; and no other or further notice of such election shall be required. SECTION 10. Two members of Congress shall also be elected, on the second Monday of May next; and until otherwise provided by law, the counties of MC waukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth, Rock and Green, shall cotstitute the first congressional district and elect one member. And the counties of Washington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown, Winnebago, Fond da Lac, Marquette, Sauk, Portage, Columbia, Dodge, Dane, Iowa, La Fayette, Grant Richland, Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix and La Pointe, shall constitute the second congressional district, and shall elect one member. SECTION 11. The several elections, provided for in this article shall be conducted according to the existing laws of the Territory, provided that no electer shall be entitled to vote except in the town, ward or precinct where he resides The returns of election for Senators and Members of Assembly, shall be trans mitted to the clerk of the Board of Supervisors, or County Commissioners, as the case may be; and the votes shall be canvassed, and certificates of election issued as now provided by law. In the first senatorial district, the returns of the election for Senator shall be made to the proper officer in the county of Brown; in the second senatorial district, to the proper officer in the county of Columbia; in the third senatorial district, to the proper officer in the county of Crawford; in the fourth senatorial district, to the proper officer in the county of Fond du Lac; and in the fifth senatorial district, to the proper officer in the county of Iowa. The returns of election for State officers and members of Congress, shall be certified and transmitted to the Speaker of the Assembly, at the seat of government, in the same manner as the vote for Delegate to Congress are required to be certified and returned by the laws of the Territory of Wis consin, to the Secretary of said Territory, and in such time, that they may be received on the first Monday in June next; and as soon as the Legislature shal be organized, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the President of the Senate shall. in the presence of both houses, examine the returns, and declare who are duly elected to fill the several offices hereinbefore mentioned; and give to each of the persons elected, a certificate of his election. SECTION 12. Until there shall be a new apportionment, the Senators and Members of the Assembly, shall be apportioned among the several districts, as here. after mentioned; and each district shall be entitled to elect one Senator, or mem ber of the Assembly, as the case may be." SECTION 13. Such parts of the common law as are now in force in the Territory of Wisconsin, not inconsistent with this Constitution, shall be and continue part of the law of this State, until altered, or suspended by the Legislature. "The legislative apportionment is omitted. CONSTITUTION: WYOMING-1889 SEC. 34. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation. SEC. 35. No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contræets, shall ever be made. SEC. 36. The enumeration of this Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny, impair, or disparage others retained by the people. SEC. 37. The State of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the Federal Union and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of land. ARTICLE NO. II BOUNDARIES a SECTION 1. The boundaries of the state of Wyoming shall be as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, and running thence west to the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude, thence south to the fortyfirst degree of north latitude, thence east to the twenty-seventh meridian of west longitude, and thence north to place of beginning. DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS SECTION 1. The powers of the government of this State are divided into three distinct departments: The legislative, executive and judicial, and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any powers properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted. ARTICLE NO. III LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT SECTION 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and house of representatives which shall be designated "The Legislature of the State of Wyoming." SEC. 2. Senators shall be elected for the term of four (4) years and representatives for the term of two (2) years. The senators elected at the first election shall be divided by lot into two classes as nearly equal as may be. The seats of senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first two years, and of the second class at the expiration of four years. No person shall be a senator who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, or a representative who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and who is not a citizen of the United States and of this State and who has not, for at least twelve months next preceding his election resided within the county or district in which he was elected. SEC. 3. Each county shall constitute a senatorial and representative district; the senate and house of representatives shall be composed of members elected by the legal voters of the counties respectively, every two (2) years. They shall be apportioned among the said counties as nearly as may be according to the number of their inhabitants. Each county shall have at least one senator and one representative; but at no time shall the number of members of the house of representatives be less than twice nor greater than three times the number of members of the senate. The senate and house of representatives first elected in pursuance of this constitution shall consist of sixteen and thirty-three members respectively. SEC. 4. When vacancies occur in either house by death, resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled for remainder of the term by special election, to be called in such manner as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 5. Members of the senate and house of representatives shall be elected on the day provided by law for the general election of a member of congress, and their term of office shall begin on the first Monday of January thereafter. SEC. 6. Each member of the first legislature, as a compensation for his services, shall receive five dollars for each day's attendance, and fifteen cents for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government to his residence by the usual traveled route, and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance whatever. No session of the legislature after the first, Transferred from Article XI. which may be sixty days, shall exceed forty days. After the first session the compensation of the members of the legislature shall be as provided by law; but no legislature shall fix its own compensation. SEC. 7. The legislature shall meet at the seat of government at twelve o'clock, noon, on the second Tuesday of January, next succeeding the general election provided by law, and at twelve o'clock, noon, on the second Tuesday of January of each alternate year thereafter, and at other times when convened by the governor. SEC. 8. No senator or representative shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the State, and no member of congress or other person holding an office (except that of notary public or an office in the militia) under the United States or this State, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office. SEC. 9. No member of either house shall, during the term for which he was elected, receive any increase of salary or mileage under any law passed during such term. SEC. 10. The senate shall, at the beginning and close of each regular session and at such other times as may be necessary elect one of its members president, the house of representatives shall elect one of its members speaker, each house shall choose its other officers, and shall judge of the election returns and qualifications of its members. SEC. 11. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may prescribe. SEC. 12. Each house shall have power to determine the rules of its proceedings, and punish its members or other persons for contempt or disorderly behavior in its presence; to protect its members against violence or offers of bribes or private solicitation, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, to expel a member, and shall have all other powers necessary to the legislature of a free state. A member expelled * SEC. 46. A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the legislature shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon. APPORTION MENT SECTION 1. One representative in the congress of the United States shall be elected from the State at large, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1890, and thereafter at such times and places, and in such manner as may be prescribed by law. When a new apportionment shall be made by congress, the legislature shall divide the State into congressional districts accordingly. SEC. 2. The legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, in the year 1895, and every tenth year thereafter, and at the session next following such enumeration, and also at the session next following an enumeration made by the authority of the United States, shall revise and adjust the apportionment for senators and reprsentatives, on a basis of such enumeration according to ratios to be fixed by law. SEC. 3. Representative districts may be altered from time to time as publie convenience may require. When a representative district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. No county shall be divided, in the formation of representative districts. SEC. 4. Until an apportionment of senators and representatives as otherwise provided by law, they shall be divided among the several counties of the State in the following manner: Albany county, two senators and five representatives. Sweetwater county, two senators and three representatives. O |