Sec. 2. Ratio of Representation. "That on the second Tuesday of October, yearly, and every year forever (with the privilege of adjourning from day to day, as occasion may require) the counties shall severally choose one person to be a member of the Legislative Council of this colony."-Const. Art. 3. "Provided always, that if a majority of the representatives of this province, in Council and General Assembly convened, shall at any time or times hereafter, judge it equitable and proper to add to, or diminish, the number or proportion of the members of the Assembly for any county or counties in this colony, then, and in such case, the same may, on the principles of more equal Strade County of Tong, Cal Bray, J County of M-Kissac County of Crowell County of County of Tills, Geor min Davi County of Lippinco as Jones County o wcomb s of th ch coun l send every ch cou County of Sussex-Joshua Shay, Joseph Linn, John Strader. County of Warren-George Flummerfelt, John Young, Caleb H. Valentine. County of Hunterdon-William Marshall, Wilson Bray, John Blane, Joseph Brown, John Hall. County of Somerset-Nicholas C. Jobs, William D. M'Kissack, William Cruser. County of Middlesex-Elias M. Runyon, Ralph M. Crowell, George P. Molleson, George T. McDowell. County of Monmouth-Daniel B. Ryall, William Burtis, Annaniah Gifford, Thomas G. Haight. County of Burlington-Anderson Lalor, Moses Wills, George Deacon, Thomas F. Budd, Benjamin Davis. County of Gloucester-Joseph Rogers, Samuel B. Lippincott, William R. Cooper, Joseph Endicott. County of Salem-Hudson A. Springer, Thomas Jones Yorke, William Cook. County of Cumberland-Thomas E. Hunt, Isaac Newcomb, Ephraim Whitecar. County of Cape May-Richard Thompson. "And be it enacted, That after the next census of this state shall be taken in pursuance of any law of the Congress of the United States, each county in this state shall be entitled to elect and send to the General Assembly one member for every six thousand free inhabitants, which Such county shall contain at the time of taking. |