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6 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20. California, six. Colorado, one. Connecticut, four. Delaw one. monaaajgtive. 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. _ Agignmgut to Section rwo.-That whenever a new State is admittedto the Union new Stats tcbc in the Representative or Representatives assigned to it shall be in addition ¤<mi*i°¤· to the number three hundred and twentyfive. SECTION £rHBEE.—That in each State entitled under this apportionment the number to which such State may be entitled in the Fortyei gh th 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 p,.,,,,;,, more than one Representative: Ihovidcd, That unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide before the election of such Represent- , , _ atives shall take place as provided bylaw, 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 Emmm 0,. R by law. If the number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it ,.“0,,m,,,.,,,,°§ was before this change, then the additional Representative or Reprelarge, when. sentatives 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 by law 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 . iixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 25, 1882.