Chapter 5.
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CHAP. 5.— An act to legalize the election of the Territorial legislative assembly of Wyoming.Jan. 19, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Territory of Wyoming, election of legislature legalized. That the election of the members of the ninth legislative assembly of the Territory of Wyoming, at the general election held on the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, subject to the filling of any vacancies that may have arisen or may arise, and legal contests, is hereby declared valid; and that the legislative assembly so elected is fully authorized to transact such business as belongs to the legislative assembly of said Territory, and that all their acts shall be held to be as legal as if the Territory had been regularly apportioned into council and representative districts; and the Governor, Secretary of the Territory, and President of the Council, Board of apportionment.shall act as a board of apportionment in said Territory, for apportioning the members of the next legislative assembly thereof, and shall meet at the capitol of said Territory, on the first Monday in September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and shall, or a majority of them, re apportion the members of the Council and House of Representatives thereof, upon the basis of the voting population, as shown by the number of votes east for Delegate in Congress in November eighteen Allotment of members.hundred and eighty-four, allotting members of each House of the legislative assembly, to the different sections of the Territory, pro rata, as nearly as practicable according to such population, and to that end may apportion when necessary, in joint council districts.
Vol. 21, ch. 119, p. 154, continued in force.That sections two, three and four of an act providing for the reapportionment of the members of the legislatures in the Territories of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same are hereby continued in force, so far as applicable to said Territory, and shall be in force as a part of this act, except as herein modified and provided. Approved, January 19, 1886.