 Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and every ten years thereafter ; and at the first session after each enumeration so made, and also at the first session after each enumeration...  Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of Michigan - Page 71by Michigan. Attorney General's Office, Michigan. Department of Attorney General - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Michigan - 1850 - 40 pages
...and by single districts. Each Representative district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equaj number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1851 - 426 pages
...ratio of representation." And in section 4 of the same article may be found the following language: " The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration...persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe." Section 27 of the schedule provides that "the Legislature shall, at its session of one thousand eight... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1893 - 800 pages
...prevailing idea of the organic provision. It is further contemplated that such districts shall be arranged according to the "number of white inhabitants, and...persons of Indian descent not members of any tribe." This equality of representation, however, is secondary to and hampered by the fact that no county can... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - 1852 - 674 pages
...after each enumeration by the authority of the United States, the Legislature shall re-arrange tho senate districts, and apportion anew the representatives...counties and districts, according to the number of wiutc inhabitants and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe. Each apportionment... | |
 | 1852 - 680 pages
...senate districts, except such county shall be equitably entitled to two or more senators. MICHIGAN. ber of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890 - 816 pages
...after each enumeration so made, and after each enumeration made by authority of the Unrted States, to rearrange the senate districts, and apportion anew the representatives among the counties. The division into representative districts, whenever made, must remain unaltered until the return of... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...and by single districts. Each representative district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Michigan - 1857 - 840 pages
...representative district shall contain, as nearly I]t.err.<'RCntatiTe 1 ' J districts. as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1857 - 828 pages
...districts. Each representative district shall contain, as nearly Jj['17<.fHntatlvo as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1861 - 784 pages
...restore the limitation. It becomes your duty, under Section 4, Article 4, of the Constitution, "to re-arrange the Senate Districts, and apportion anew...persons of Indian descent not members of any tribe." It will also be your duty to divide the State into six Congressional districts, pursuant to a ratio... | |
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