Chapter 20. making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the tenth census
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CHAP. 20.— An Act making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the tenth census.Feb. 25, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the States muter the tenth census. That after the third of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of three hundred and twenty-five members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows:
Alabama, eight. Arkansas, five. 6 California, six. Colorado, one. Connecticut, four. Delaware, cue. Florida, two. Georgia, ten. Illinois, twenty. Indiana, thirteen. Iowa, eleven. Kansas, seven. Kentucky, eleven. Louisiana, six. Maine, four. Maryland, six. Massachusetts, twelve. Michigan, eleven. Minnesota, five. Mississippi, seven. Missouri, fourteen. Nebraska, three. Nevada, one. New Hampshire, two. New Jersey, seven. New York, thirty-four. North Carolina, nine. Ohio, twenty-one.
Oregon, one. Pennsylvania, twenty-eight. Rhode Island, two. South Carolina, seven. Tennessee, ten. Texas, eleven. Vermont, two. Virginia, ten. West Virginia, four. Wisconsin, nine. Section two.—Assignment to new States to be in addition. That whenever a new State is admitted to the Union the Representative or Representatives assigned to it shall be in addition to the number three hundred and twenty-five. Section three.— That in each State entitled under this apportionment the number to which such State may be entitled in the Forty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by Districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress, no one District electing *Proviso*.more than one Representative: *Provided*, That unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide before the election of such Representatives shall take place as provided by law. where no change shall be hereby made in the representation of a State, the Representatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress shall be elected therein as now provided Election of Representatives at large, when.by law.
If the number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it was before this change, then the additional Representative or Representatives allowed to said State under this apportionment may be elected by the State at large, and the other Representatives to which the State is entitled by the Districts as now prescribed bylaw in said State; and if the number hereby provided for shall in any State be less than it was before the change hereby made, then the whole number to such State hereby provided for shall be elected at large, unless the Legislatures of said States have provided or shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein.
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 25, 1882. Approved, February 25, 1882.