CHAPTER IV.

OF THE APPORTIONMENT OF SENATORS IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

Division of State into Senate districts.

An Act to Rearrange the Senate Districts in this State.

[Approved February 13, 1855. Took effect May 16, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 309.]

(23.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That this State shall continue to be divided into thirty-two Senate Districts, and each district entitled to one Senator, which shall be constituted as follows, to wit:

1. The first district shall consist of the third, fourth and seventh wards in the City of Detroit, and the townships of Hamtramck and Grosse Point, in the county of Wayne; the election returns shall be made to the County Clerk's office in said county;

2. The second district shall consist of the second, fifth and sixth wards of the City of Detroit, in the county of Wayne; the election returns shall be made to the County Clerk's office in said county;

3. The third district shall consist of the first and eighth wards of the City of Detroit, and the townships of Greenfield, Springwells, Ecorse and Monguagon, in the county of Wayne; the election returns shall be made to the County Clerk's office. in said county;

4. The fourth district shall consist of the townships of Plymouth, Livonia, Redford, Dearborn, Nankin, Canton, Van Buren, Romulus, Taylor, Brownstown, Huron and Sumpter, in the county of Wayne; the election returns shall be made to the County Clerk's office in said county;

5. The fifth district shall consist of the townships of Oxford, Orion, Pontiac, Bloomfield, Southfield, Royal Oak, Troy, Avon, Oakland, Addison and Farmington, in the county of Oakland; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

6. The sixth district shall consist of the townships of Lyon, Novi, Milford, Commerce, West Bloomfield, Highland, White Lake, Waterford, Rose, Springfield, Independence, Holly, Groveland and Brandon, in the county of Oakland; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

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7. The seventh district shall consist of the City of Ann Division of State Arbor, the townships of Superior, Salem, Ann Arbor, North-tricts field, Scio, Webster, Lima, Dexter, Sylvan and Lyndon, in the county of Washtenaw; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

8. The eighth district shall consist of the townships of Ypsilanti, Augusta, Pittsfield, York, Lodi, Saline, Freedom, Bridgewater, Sharon and Manchester, in the county of Washtenaw; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

9. The county of Monroe shall be the ninth district;

10. The tenth district shall consist of the second and third wards of the City of Adrian, the townships of Adrian, Franklin, Cambridge, Rome, Rollin, Woodstock, Hudson, Doan, [Dover], Medina and Seneca, in the county of Lenawee; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

11. The eleventh district shall consist of the first and fourth wards of the City of Adrian, the townships of Madison, Fairfield, Ogden, Riga, Palmyra, Blissfield, Raisin, Ridgeway, Macon and Tecumseh, in the county of Lenawee; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of said county;

12. The county of Jackson shall be the twelfth district; 13. The county of Calhoun shall be the thirteenth district; 14. The county of Hillsdale shall be the fourteenth district; 15. The county of Branch shall be the fifteenth district t; 16. The county of St. Joseph shall be the sixteenth district; 17. The county of Cass shall be the seventeenth district; 18. The county of Berrien shall be the eighteenth district; 19. The counties of Van Buren and Allegan shall constitute the nineteenth district; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Van Buren;

20. The county of Kalamazoo shall be the twentieth district; 21. The counties of Barry and Eaton shall constitute the twenty-first district; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Eaton;

22. The counties of Ingham and Clinton shall constitute the twenty-second district; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Ingham;

23. The county of Livingston shall be the twenty-third district;

24. The county of Genesee shall be the twenty-fourth district;

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25. The county of Macomb shall be the twenty-fifth district;

26. The county of St. Clair shall be the twenty-sixth district;

27. The counties of Lapeer, Sanilac, Tuscola and Huron, shall constitute the twenty-seventh district; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Lapeer;

28. The twenty-eighth district shall consist of the counties of Shiawassee, Saginaw, Midland, Gladwin, Aronac, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Iosco, Algona, Oscoda, Crawford, Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Presque Isle, Wyandott, Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Saginaw;

29. The county of Kent shall be the twenty-ninth district; 30. The counties of Ionia, Montcalm, Gratiot, Isabella, Mecosta, Osceola and Clare, shall constitute the thirtieth district; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's [office] of the county of Ionia;

31. The thirty-first district shall consist of the counties of Ottawa, Newaygo, Oceana, Lake, Mason, Grand Traverse, Wexford, Missaukee, Kalkaska, Omeena, Leelanaw, Antrim and Manistee ; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Ottawa;

32. The thirty-second district shall consist of the counties of Mackinaw, Chippewa, Marquette, Schoolcraft, Delta, Houghton and Ontonagon, and the islands and territory thereto attached, the islands of Lake Superior and Michigan, and in Green Bay and the Straits of Mackinaw, and the river Ste. Marie; the election returns shall be made to the Clerk's office of the county of Chippewa; the election returns of each Returns where county forming one district, shall be made to the Seat of Jus tice of such county.

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CHAPTER V.

OF THE APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

An Act to Apportion anew the Representatives among the several Counties and Districts of this

State.

[Approved February 12, 1855. Took effect May 16, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 237.]

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(24.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Ratio of Repre the House of Representatives shall hereafter be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one Representative for every seven thousand white persons and civilized persons Specifications. of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, in each organized county, and one Representative for a fraction equal to a moiety of said ratio, and not included therein, that is to say: within the county of Wayne, nine; within the county of Oakland, Wayne county 9; five; within the counties of Washtenaw and Lenawee, four tenaw and Leuaeach; within the counties of Calhoun, Hillsdale, Kent, Ma- tain Co.'s 3 each; comb, Monroe and Jackson, three each; within the counties of Berrien, Branch, Cass, Eaton, Genesee, Ingham, Ionia, Kalamazoo, Livingston, St. Clair and St. Joseph, two each; within the counties of Allegan, Barry, Lapeer, Ottawa, Shiawassee, Certain Co.'s 2 Van Buren, Tuscola, Mackinac and Manitue, one each; the Co.'s 1 each. counties of Clinton and Gratiot shall compose a representative clinton and district and be entitled to one Representative, the election. returns of which said district shall be made to the county seat of Clinton; the counties of Sanilac and Huron shall compose a sanilac and representative district and be entitled to one Representative, the election returns of which district shall be made to the county seat of Sanilac; the counties of Midland, Aronac, Iosco Midland, Arenae, and Gladwin, shall constitute a representative district and be win, 1. entitled to one Representative, the election returns of which said district shall be made to the county seat of the county of Midland; the counties of Montcalm, Isabella, Osceola, Mecosta Montealm, Isaand Clare, shall compose a representative district and be enti-Osceola and tled to one Representative, the election returns of which said. district shall be made to the county seat of Montcalm; the counties of Newaygo, Oceana, Lake and Mason, shall compose Newaygo, Ocea a representative district and be entitled to one Representative, Mason, 1 the election returns of which shall be made to the county seat

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ford, Kalaska, Leelanaw, Antrim, Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Presque Isle, Wyandott, Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan, shall compose a representative district and be entitled to one Representative, and the election returns thereof shall be Chippewa, Mar- made to the county seat of Grand Traverse; the counties of eraft and Delta, Chippewa, Marquette, Schoolcraft and Delta, shall compose a representative district and be entitled to one Representative, the election returns of which said district shall be made to Houghton and the county seat of Chippewa; the counties of Houghton and Ontonagon shall compose a representative district and be entitled to one Representative, the election returns of which said district shall be made to the county seat of Houghton.

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