 | United States. Congress. House - 1893 - 784 páginas
...which such State maybe entitled in the Fifty-third and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory and containing...nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of the Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1895 - 786 páginas
...shall be in addition to the number three hundred and fifty-six. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES. posed of contiguous territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of the Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1897 - 1184 páginas
...first Monday of November ; there shall be thirteen from Massachusetts ; and they shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing,...nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants. 18 ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REPORT. [Jan. The apportionment of the number of representatives being by the... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 712 páginas
...Virginia, 10; Washington, 2; West Virginia, 4; Wisconsin, ro; Wyoming, i. It also provided that Congressmen shall be elected from districts composed of contiguous territory and containing as nearly as possible an equal number of inhabitants, the number of such districts equaling the number of Representatives... | |
 | Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1898 - 1376 páginas
...to find, there is incorporated the injuntion that Representatives in Congress should be elected by "districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing...nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants," etc. In 1890 the General Assembly of Kentucky passed a bill reapportioning the State into eleven Congressional... | |
 | Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary - 1900 - 168 páginas
...number to which such state may be entitled in the 43rd and each subsequent congress, shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory and containing...nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants." Until 1837 representatives were elected in Connecticut by the people at large. The last time the State... | |
 | 1901 - 906 páginas
...prescribes that the Congressional districts in each State shall be "composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants." It raises the Inquiry whether or not Congress is going to act against the practice of gerrymandering.... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - 1901 - 620 páginas
...; and the prescription referred to is that the districts shall be "composed of contiguous, compact territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants." Article 5 of the Virginia Constitution prescribes that — "Section 12. The whole number of members... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 934 páginas
...to be of each subsequent Congress shall' be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be — number, equal to the number of the Representatives to which such State... | |
 | 1902 - 640 páginas
...each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts com- "tors' posed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants.' "... SC McSweeney, 14 Ja 02, p.30-31 Legislative apportionment recommended. Tex. Sayers, 6Ag01, p.4-5... | |
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That, in each state entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such state may be entitled in the 53d and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an... 
