legislature shall direct, for the purpose of apportioning the whole number of senators amongst the four great districts of this state, as nearly as may be, according to the number of electors qualified to vote for senators, which shall be found to be in each of the said districts by the census above mentioned; which eight senators so to be chosen shall form the first class.
IV. That from the first Monday in July next, and on the return of every census thereafter, the number of the assembly shall be increased at the rate of two members for every year, until the whole number shall amount to one hundred and fifty; and that upon the return of every such census, the legislature shall apportion the senators and members of the assembly amongst the great districts and counties of this state, as nearly as may be, according to the number of their respective electors. Provided, that the legislature shall not be prohibited by anything herein contained, from allowing one member of assembly to each county, heretofore erected within this state.
V. And this convention do further, in the name and by the authority of the people of this state, ordain, determine and declare, that by the true construction of the twenty-third article of the constitution of this state, the right to nominate all officers, other than those who by the constitution are directed to be otherwise appointed, is vested concurrently in the person administering the government of this state for the time being, and in each of the members of the council of appointment.
By order,
- A. BURR,
President of the Convention, and delegate from Orange County.
Attest:
- James Van Ingen,
- Joseph Constant,
- Secretaries.
