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[WM. R. SMITH & Co.....Printers to the State.]

STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, Jan. 31, 1813.

The Joint Select Committee to which was referred so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the apportionment of Representatives to Congress, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to

REPORT

a Bill, which is herewith submitted.

VIRGIL D. PARRIS, Chairman.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE.

AN ACT providing for the choice of Representatives to

Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives in Legislature assembled as follows: 3 SECTION 1. The County of York shall compose the 4 first district, and be entitled to one Representative. 5 The County of Cumberland, together with the 6 towns of Phipsburg and Georgetown from the County 7 of Lincoln, shall compose the second district, and be 8 entitled to one Representative.

9 The County of Kennebec, together with the towns 10 of Lewiston, Lisbon, Webster, Bowdoin, Bowdoin11 ham, Topsham, Bath, Woolwich, Richmond, Dres12 den, Alna and Whitefield, from the County of Lin13 coln, shall compose the third district, and be entitled 14 to one Representative.

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15 The County of Waldo, together with the remainder 16 of the County of Lincoln, shall compose the fourth 17 district, and be entitled to one Representative. 18 The Counties of Oxford, Franklin and Somerset, 19 except the towns hereinafter annexed to the sixth 20 district, shall compose the fifth district, and be enti21 tled to one Representative.

22 The Counties of Penobscot and Piscataquis, togeth

23 er with the towns of Cambridge, Ripley, St. Albans, 24 Palmyra, Detroit, Pittsfield, Canaan, Hartland and 25 Harmony, from the County of Somerset, shall compose 26 the sixth district, and be entitled to one Representative. 27 The Counties of Hancock, Washington and Aroos28 took, shall compose the seventh district, and be enti29 tled to one Representative.

SEC. 2. The Representatives chosen in the several 2 districts, shall at the time of their election be residents 3 therein. The foregoing division of the State into 4 Representative districts, shall be and continue in 5 force until an apportionment of Representatives 6 among the several States shall be made by Congress, 7 after the taking of the seventh census.

SEC. 3. The election of Representatives to Con2 gress shall take place and be on the second Monday 3 of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty 4 three, and one thousand eight hundred and forty four, 5 and thereafter biennially.

SEC. 4. So much of section three of an act cn2 titled "an act providing for the choice of Represen3 tatives to Congress," approved February 28th, A. D. 4 1833, as relates to the manner of calling meetings 5 for the choice of Representatives to Congress, and 6 the duties of officers of towns, in presiding in said 7 meetings and making returns of votes, and also sec8 tions four, five, six and seven, of said act, shall con9 tinue and be in force, except so far as the same may 10 have been changed by the revised statutes of this 11 State.

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