- Event type: CREATE_FROM
Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.
Committee of the Whole
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Session 5912: 1889-09-19 00:00:00
The committee further considered the article on Legislative Department. The articles on Boundaries and Apportionment as well as on the Executive Department were also considered.
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Majority Report from Committee on Boundaries and Apportionment on File No. 76: 1889-09-19
Section 1. One Representative in the Congress of the United States shall be elected from the State at large, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 1890, and thereafter at each time as may be prescribed by law. When a new apportionment shall be made by Congress, the Legislature shall divide the State into congressional districts accordingly.
Section 2. The Legislature shall provide by law, for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State in the year 1895, and every tenth year thereafter and at the session next following such enumeration, and also 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 senators and representatives, an a basis of each enumeration, according to ratios to be fixed by law.
Section 3. Representative districts may be altered from time to time as public convenience may require. When a representative district shall be composed of two or more counties they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. No county shall be divided, in the formation of representative districts.
Section 4. Until an apportionment of Senators and representatives as otherwise provided by law they shall be divided among the several counties of the State in the following manner:
Albany County, two senators and five representatives.
Carbon county, two senators and five representatives.
Converse county, one senator and two representatives.
Crook county, one senator and two representatives.
Fremont county, one senator and two representatives.
Laramie county, three senators and six representatives.
Johnson county, one senator and one representative.
Sheridan county, one senator and one representative.
Sweetwater county, two senators and three representatives.
Uinta county, two senators and three representatives.
Decisions yet to be taken
- Majority Report from Committee on Boundaries and Apportionment on File No. 76: 1889-09-19 (introduced on 1889-09-19 00:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e681213) [This document]
Document Timeline
- Majority Report from Committee on Boundaries and Apportionment on File No. 76: 1889-09-19 (introduced on 1889-09-19 00:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e681213) [This document]
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