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The third district shall consist of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

The fourth district shall consist of the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, thirty-eighth, and forty-seventh wards of the city of Philadelphia.

The fifth district shall consist of the twenty-third, twenty-fifth, thirty-first, thirtythird, thirty-fifth, forty-first, and forty-fifth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The sixth district shall consist of the twenty-fourth, twenty-seventh, thirtyfourth, fortieth, forty-fourth, and forty-sixth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The seventh district shall consist of the twenty-first, twenty-second, forty-second, and forty-third wards of the city of Philadelphia

The eighth district shall consist of the counties of Chester and Delaware.
The ninth district shall consist of the counties of Bucks and Montgomery.

The tenth district shall consist of the county of Lancaster.

The eleventh district shall consist of the county of Lackawanna.

The twelfth district shall consist of the county of Luzerne.

The thirteenth district shall consist of the county of Schuylkill.

The fourteenth district shall consist of the counties of Berks and Lehigh.

The fifteenth district shall consist of the counties of Bradford, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming.

The sixteenth district shall consist of the counties of Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, and Tioga.

The seventeenth district shall consist of the counties of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, and Sullivan.

The eighteenth district shall consist of the counties of Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, and Union.

The nineteenth district shall consist of the counties of Cumberland, Dauphin, and Lebanon.

The twentieth district shall consist of the county of Cambria.

The twenty-first district shall consist of the counties of Bedford and Blair. The twenty-second district shall consist of the counties of Adams and York. The twenty-third district shall consist of the counties of Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, and McKean.

The twenty-fourth district shall consist of the counties of Fayette and Somerset. The twenty-fifth district shall consist of the counties of Greene and Washington. The twenty-sixth district shall consist of the counties of Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence.

The twenty-seventh district shall consist of the counties of Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson.

The twenty-eighth district shall consist of the counties of Elk, Forest, Mercer, Venango, and Warren.

The twenty-ninth district shall consist of the counties of Crawford and Erie. The thirtieth district shall consist of the counties of Carbon, Monroe, and Northampton.

The thirty-first district shall consist of the county of Westmoreland.

The thirty-second district shall consist of the twenty-first, twenty-second, twentythird, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh wards of the city of Pittsburgh, and all the boroughs and townships, lying north of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers, not included in the thirty-third district, in the county of Allegheny.

The thirty-third (district) shall consist of all the boroughs and townships lying between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, and the boroughs of Springdale, Cheswick, Brackenridge, Tarentum, the townships of Harrison, Fawn, East Deer, Frazer, and Springdale, and the city of McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny. The thirty-fourth district shall consist of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and fifteenth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny.

The thirty-fifth district shall consist of the seventh, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, and the township of Chartiers. in the county of Allegheny. The thirty-sixth district shall consist of the cities of Clairton and Duquesne, and all the boroughs and townships lying south of the Ohio and Monongahela rivers, excepting the township of Chartiers, in the county of Allegheny.

Section 2. The nomination and election of members of the House of Representatives of the United States, which the qualified electors of any county, or of any part of a county, are entitled to elect of themselves unconnected with any other county or district, shall be made, held, and conducted, and the return of votes cast at primary and general elections for the nomination and election of such members shall be made, computed, canvassed and certified, as now or hereafter may be provided by law.

Section 3. In all congressional districts composed of two or more counties, or parts of two or more counties, or of one or more counties and a part or parts of one or more counties, the county commissioners of each of such counties, in the case of primary elections, and the court of common pleas, in the case of general elections shall appoint one of the judges of election of such county or part of such

county comprised within such district to take charge of the returns of all votes cast at any primary or general election in said county, or part of said county, for any candidate or candidates for the nomination of Representatives in Congress from said district.

Section 4.

Such return judges shall meet at such places in their respective districts as herein designated.

The return judges of the eighth district shall meet at the court house in West Chester, in the county of Chester.

The return judges of the ninth district shall meet at the court house in Norristown, in the county of Montgomery.

The return judges of the fourteenth district shall meet at the court house in Reading, in the county of Berks.

The return judges of the fifteenth district shall meet at the court house in Montrose, in the county of Susquehanna.

The return judges of the sixteenth district shall meet at the court house in Wellsboro, in the county of Tioga,

The return judges of the seventeenth district shall meet at the court house in Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland.

The return judges of the eighteenth district shall meet at the court house in Lewistown, in the county of Mifflin.

The return judges of the nineteenth district shall meet at the court house in Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin.

The return judges of the twenty-first district shall meet at the court house in Hollidaysburg, in the county of Blair.

The return judges of the twenty-second district shall meet at the court house in York, in the county of York.

The return judges of the twenty-third district shall meet at the court house in Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield.

The return judges of the twenty-fourth district shall meet at the court house in Uniontown, in the county of Fayette.

The return judges of the twenty-fifth district shall meet at the court house in Washington, in the county of Washington.

The return judges of the twenty-sixth district shall meet at the court house in Beaver, in the county of Beaver.

The return judges of the twenty-seventh district shall meet at the court house in Indiana, in the county of Indiana.

The return judges of the twenty-eighth district shall meet at the court house in Warren, in the county of Warren.

The return judges of the twenty-ninth district shall meet at the court house in Meadville, in the county of Crawford.

The return judges of the thirtieth district shall meet at the court house in Easton, in the county of Northampton.

Section 5. Such return judges shall meet and cast up the several returns of the counties or parts of counties composing the district on the Tuesday next following the day on which the official computation of the county returns in all of such counties shall have been completed.

Section 6. The return judges shall execute, under their hands and seals, a general and true return of the whole district, which, in case such return is of the general election, shall be deposited with the prothonotary of the county wherein the return is executed, or, in case the return is of a primary election, with the county commissioners of such county. Immediately upon the receipt of such return, the prothonotary or county commissioners, as the case may be, shall make copies of such return, and shall transmit one copy thereof, properly certified, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the other copy or copies, also certified, to the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes cast at the preceding general or primary election for the office for which the election was held or the nominations were made in the district.

Section 7. Every return judge shall receive, out of the treasury of his proper county, the sum of ten dollars for each day actually employed in computing such vote, and, in addition thereto, shall receive ten cents for every mile necessarily traveled in going to and from the place of meeting.

Section 8. The first election under this act shall be held at the general election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

The members of Congress now in office shall continue in such office until the expiration of their respective terms.

Vacancies now existing or happening after the passage of this act and before the commencement of the terms of the members elected at the election of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the manner now provided by law in the particular district or at large, as the case may be.

Section 9. * * All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

APPORTIONMENT OF THE STATE INTO SENATORIAL

DISTRICTS.

(Act of May 10, 1921, P. L. 449.)

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That until the next United States decennial census is taken, and an apportionment made thereon, the Senate shall consist of fifty members, and the State is hereby apportioned into fifty Senatorial districts, each of which shall be known by the number herein attached thereto, and shall each be entitled to elect one Senator, as follows, to wit:

First District-The first, twenty-sixth, thirty-sixth, thirty-ninth, and fortyeighth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Second District-The second, third, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and thirtieth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Third District-The fifth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and eighteenth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Fourth District-The twenty-fourth, twenty-seventh, thirty-fourth, fortieth, forty-fourth, and forty-sixth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Fifth District--The seventeenth, nineteenth, twentieth, thirty-first, and thirtyseventh wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Sixth District-The twenty-first, twenty-second, thirty-eighth, and forty-second wards of the city of Philadelphia ̧

Seventh District-The fifteenth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, and forty-seventh wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Eighth District-The twenty-third, twenty-fifth, thirty-third, thirty-fifth, fortyfirst, forty-third and forty-fifth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Ninth District-The county of Delaware.

Tenth District-The county of Bucks.

Eleventh District-The county of Berks.

Twelfth District- -The county of Montgomery.

Thirteenth District-All that part of the county of Lancaster not included in the seventeenth district.

Fourteenth District-The counties of Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne.
Fifteenth District-The county of Dauphin.

Sixteenth District-The county of Lehigh.

Seventeenth District-The County of Lebanon; and the boroughs of Adamstown, Akron, Columbia, Denver, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, Marietta, and Mount Joy; and the townships of Clay, Conoy, East Cocalico, East Donegal, Elizabeth, Ephrata, Mount Joy, Penn, Rapho, Warwick, West Cocalico, West Donegal, and West Hempfield, in the county of Lancaster.

Eighteenth District-The county of Northampton.
Nineteenth District-The county of Chester.

Twentieth District-The townships of Black Creek, Butler, Conyngham, Dallas. Denison, Dorrance, Foster, Fairmount, Fairview, Hazle, Hollenback, Hunlock, Huntingdon, Lake, Lehman, Jackson, Kingston, Nescopeck, Plymouth, Ross, Salem, Slocum, Sugarloaf, Union, and Wright; and the boroughs of Conyngham, Courtdale, Dallas, Dorranceton, Edwardsville, Forty Fort, Freeland, Jeddo, Kingston, Larksville, Nanticoke, Nescopeck, New Columbus, Nuangola, Plymouth, Shickshinny, West Hazelton, and White Haven; and the city of Hazleton. in the county of Luzerne. Twenty-first District-The residue of the county of Luzerne, not included in the twentieth district.

Twenty-second District-The county of Lackawanna.

Twenty-third District-The counties of Bradford, Susquehanna, and Wyoming. Twenty-fourth District-The Counties of Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, and Sul

livan.

Twenty-fifth District-The counties of McKean, Potter, and Tioga.

Twenty-sixth District-The counties of Cameron, Clarion, Clinton, Elk, and

Forest.

Twenty-seventh_District-The counties of Northumberland, Snyder, and Union. Twenty-eighth District-The county of York.

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