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Show 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING TO AMEND SECTIONS 2, 8 AND 4 OF ARTICLE IX OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UTAH BY CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LEGISLATURE MAKING EACH COUNTY OF THE STATE A SENATOMAL, DISTRICT. BY REAPPORTIONING REPRESENTATIVES AMONG THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ACCORDING TO THE 1960 CENSUS, AND BY AUTHORIZING THE LEGISLATURE TO DECREASE AS WELL AS INCREASE THE NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES. Be it reaolved by the legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members elected to each house concurring therein: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Sees. 2, 3 and 4 of Article IX of the Constitution of Utah to read: Section 2. The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitant of the State, A. D. 1905, and every tenth year thereafter, and at the session next following such enumeration, and also at the session next following an enumeration made by the authority of the United States, shall revise and adjust the apportionment for representatives on the basis of such enumeration to ratios to be fixed by law. Section 3. The Senate shall consist of one member from etch county of the State, and the House of Representatives of seventy-five members. The Legislature may increase or decrease the number rf representatives, but the number of representatives shall never be less than twice nor greater than three times the number of senators. Section 4. Each county of the state shall constitute a senatorial district REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Until otherwise provided by law, representatives shall be apportioned among the several counties of the State as follows: Provided, That in any future apportionment made by the Legislature, each county shall be entitled to at least one representative. The County of Box Elder shall constitute the First Representative District, and be entitled to two representatives. The County of Cache shall constitute the Second Representative District, and be entitled to three representatives. The Countv ef Rich shall constitute the Third Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Weber shall constitute the Fourth Representative District, and be entitled to eight representatives. The County of Morgan shall constitute the Fifth Representative District, and U entitled to one representative. The County of Davis shall constitute the Sixth Representative District, and be entitled to three representatives. The County of Tooele shall con-stitute the Seventh Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The Countv of Salt Lake shall constitute the Eighth Reonsi nta-tlve District, and be entitled to twenty-seven representatives. The County of Summit shall constitute the Ninth Representative District, and be entitled to one renrcsentatlve. The County of Wasatch shall constitute the Tenth Representative District and be entitled to one representative. The County of Utah shall constitute the Eleventh Representative District, and be entitled to eignt representatives. The County of Uintah shall ;on- , s stitute the Twelfth. Representative i. District, and bo entitled to one representative. . 7 The County of Juab shall ?on- stitute the Thirteenth Representa- - Uve District, and be entitled to ' one representative. The County of Sanpete shall constitute the Fourteenth Reore-sentative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Carbon shall constitute the Fifteenth Representa. tive District, and be entitled to two representatives. The County of Emerv shall con-stitute the Sixteenth Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Grand shall con- .lifi,n 41. O-. .... ,U T. . . oniuic ma ocvcmcvukii iil'iJrtrstrii:- ativo District, nnd be entitled to one representative. The County of Sevier shall constitute the Eighteenth Representa-tive District, and be entitled to one representative. The Countv of Millard shall con- ' - stltutu the Nineteenth Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The Countv of Beaver shall con-stitute the Twentieth Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Piute shall con-stitute the Twenty-first Representative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Wayne shall constitute the Twenty-second Renre-sentative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of Garfield shall constitute the Twenty-third Renre-sentative District, and be entftled to one representative. The Countv of Iron shall constitute the Twenty-fourth Renre-sentative District, and be entitled to nne representative. The County of WashfnHnn shall constitute the Twenty-fifth Renrcsentatlve District, and be entitled to nne representative. The Countv of Kane sha'1 constitute the Twenty-sixth Renre-fr.tative District, and be entitled to one representative. The County of San Juan M11 constitute the Twenty-seventh Re-nreser.tative District, and be entitled V one representative. The County of Duchesne shsll f constitute the Twenty-elirMh Renrcsentatlve District, and be entitled to one representative. The Conitv of Daggett shall onstltute the Twenty-ninth Renrcsentatlve District, and be entitled to nn representative. Section E. This resolution shaM he submitted to the electors of th state at the general election In i!r,4 In accordance with Article XXIII. Section 1 of the Constltu-tton of Utah. I. LAMONT F. TORONTO. Secretary of State of the State of Utah. DO HEREBY CFRTIFY that the foregoing ft a full, true and correct copy o' t constitutional amendment -t -H hv th rerular session oj' fV Thirtieth T-Mrtnlttnre. 19V. ui nppsr of rrI In mr office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, T isve -rennto set wr hand and affixed the Great SeM of the State of fTtah. t Salt Lake Citv. 'hir 20th dv of August. 1954, LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of State, (SEAL) 0 1 |