 Legislature at the first regular session after the return of every enumeration, that each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact form as practicable, and shall remain unaltered...  Journal of the Constitutional Commission of Michigan - Page 44by Michigan. Constitutional Commission (1873) - 1873 - 299 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 788 pages
...Here, as in the senatorial apportionment, the county is the chief factor. The provision that, " each district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal...shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory," does not conflict with this main idea of representation by counties. The words "as nearly as may be"... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...to two or more senators. Ъег of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient...territory. But no township or city shall be divided iu the formation of a representative district. When any township or city shall contain a population... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 806 pages
...in part that: "SEC. 3. Representatives shall be chosen for two years and by single districts, which shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory; but no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 574 pages
...to divide the towns and cities of the Commonwealth into eighty districts, in such manner that each shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants ; and they shall, in all cases where the same shall be practicable, be formed by the union of towns... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...altered by the Legislature, at the first session after the return of every enumeration, that each Senate district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and persons of color not taxed ; ^and shall remain unaltered until the return of... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...shall consist of not less than sixtyfour, nor more than one hundred members. Representatives shall be chosen for two years, and by single districts....district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1855 - 774 pages
...thereof, according to the last preceding state enumeration, as near as can be ascertained. Each assembly district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1855 - 1376 pages
...thereof, according to the last preceding state enumeration, as near as can be ascertained. Each Aso'sembly district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory... | |
 | California - Session laws - 1855 - 354 pages
...may re-divide the city into such number of wards as they may deem expedient; provided, that each ward shall contain as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants ; provided, also, that the whole number of wards shall not exceed twelve, prior to the year eighteen... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...°f Representatives. less than sixty-four, nor more than one hundred members. Representatives shall be chosen for two years, and by single districts....Each representative district shall contain, as nearly Jj['17<.fHntatlvo as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian... | |
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