Article V
Sec. 2: The Senate shall consist of thirty-two members
. Senators shall beelected for two years and by single districts. Such districts shall be numbered from one to thirty-two,inclusive, each of which shall choose one senator. The House of Representatives shall consist of one hundred members elected for two years and by single districts. Such districts shall be numbered from one to one hundred inclusive, each of which shall choose one representative.No county shall be divided in the formation of senatorial districts, unless such county shall be equitably entitled to two or more senators.Sec. 3: The secretary of state, the attorney general and the lieutenant governor, acting as a board of review, shall on or before the first day of April, 1925, and every eighth year thereafter, divide the territory of the state into thirty-two senatorial districts. Such districts shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory with regular boundaries following the county, city or township lines as nearly as possible and shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of registered and qualified voters.
The house of representatives shall consist of not less than sixty-four nor more than one hundred members.The secretary of state, the attorney general and the lieutenant governor, acting as a board of review, shall on or before the first day of April, 1925, and every eighth year thereafter, divide the territory of the state into one hundred representative districts.Representatives shall be chosen for two years and by single districts, which shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants andSuch districts shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory with regular boundaries following the county, city, or township lines as nearly as possible and shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of registered and qualified voters.; butProvided, that in the formation of such districts no townshipor cityshall be dividedin the formation of a representative districtthereby.When any township or city shall contain a population which entitles it to more than one representative, then such township or city shall elect by general ticket the number of representatives to which it is entitled. Each county, with such territory as may be attached thereto, shall be entitled to a separate representative when it has attained a population equal to a moiety of the ratio of representation. In every county entitled to more than one representative, the board of supervisors shall assemble at such time and place as shall be prescribed by law, divide the same into representative districts equal to the number of representatives to which such county is entitled by law, and shall cause to be filed in the offices of the secretary of state and clerk of such county a description of such representative districts, specifying the number of each district and population thereof according to the last preceding enumeration.Sec. 4:
At the session in nineteen hundred thirteen, and each tenth year thereafter, the legislature shall by law rearrange the senatorial districts and apportion anew the representatives among the counties and districts according to the number of inhabitants, using as the basis for such apportionment the last preceding United States census of this state. Each apportionment so made, and the division of any county into representative districts by its board of supervisors, made thereunder, shall not be altered until the tenth year thereafter.On or before the first day of January, 1925, and every eighth year thereafter, the clerks of the several counties, cities and townships shall cause to be filed with the secretary of state a certified statement of the number of registered and qualified voters resident therein at the last presidential election.
