visors, the common council, or if there be none, the body exercising the powers of a common council, shall assemble on the second Tuesday of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and at such times as the Legislature making an apportionment shall prescribe, and divide such counties into assembly districts as nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, as may be, of convenient and contiguous territory in as compact form as practicable, each of which shall be wholly within a senate district formed under the same apportionment, equal to the number of members of assembly to which such county shall be entitled, and shall cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and of the clerk of such county, a description of such districts, specifying the number of each district and of the inhabitants thereof, excluding aliens, according to the last preceding enumeration; and such apportionment and districts shall remain unaltered until another enumeration shall be made, as herein provided; but said division of the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings to be made on the second Tuesday of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall be made by the common council of said city and the board of supervisors of said county, assembled in joint session. In counties having more than one senate district, the same number of assembly districts shall be put in each senate district, unless the assembly districts can not be evenly divided among the senate districts of any county, in which case one more assembly district shall be put in the senate district in such county having the largest, or one less assembly district shall be put in the senate district in such county having the smallest number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, as the case may require. No town, and no block in a city inclosed by streets or public ways, shall be divided in the formation of assembly districts, nor shall any district contain a greater excess in population over an adjoining district in the same senate district than the population of a town or block therein adjoining such assembly district. Towns or blocks which, from their location, may be included in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to make said districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens; but in the division of cities under the first apportionment, regard shall be had to the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, of the election districts according to the State enumeration of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, so far as may be, instead of blocks. Nothing in this section shall prevent the division, at any time, of counties and towns, and the erection of new towns by the Legislature. An apportionment by the Legislature, or other body, shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court, at the suit of any citizen, under such reasonable regulations as the Legislature may prescribe; and any court before which a cause may be pending involving an apportionment, shall give precedence thereto over all other causes and proceedings, and if said court be not ir session it shall convene promptly for the disposition of the same. THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. CHAP. 295. AN ACT dividing the state into Congressional districts. APPROVED by the GOVERNOR April 13, 189. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. For the election of representatives in congress of the United States this state shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-four districts, namely: First district. The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first district. Second district.- The first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh and twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the second district. Third district.-The fourth, third, tenth, twenty-second, ninth and twentythird wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the town of Flatbush, shall compose the third district. Fourth district.-The twelfth, eighth, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, together with the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend and Flatlands, shall compose the fourth district. Fifth district.--The eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the fifth district. Sixth district.-- The thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, as now constituted, shall compose the sixth district. Seventh district.-The county of Richmond, together with the first to twentyeight election districts of the first assembly district; first to fourth election districts of the second assembly district; first to eighteenth and twenty-third and twenty-fourth election districts of the third assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the seventh district. Eighth district.-The fifth to twelfth and nineteenth to thirty-sixth election districts of the second assembly district; twenty-fifth to twenty-eighth election districts of the third assembly district; third, ninth to thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth to thirty-ninth election districts of the fifth assembly district; fourth to eleventh, fifteenth to twenty-fifth, and thirty-second to thirty-fourth election districts of the sixth assembly district; eighteenth, nineteenth, twentythird and twenty-fourth election districts of the seventh assembly district; eighteenth and nineteenth election districts of the eighteenth assembly district; first to thirteenth election districts of the twenty-fifth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the eighth district. Ninth district.-The thirteenth to eighteenth election districts of the second assembly district; first to forty-first election districts of the fourth assembly district; first to third, and twelfth to fourteenth election districts of the sixth assembly district; first to twenty-fourth election districts of the eighth assembly district; first to fifth election districts of the tenth assembly district; first to thirty-third election districts of the twelfth assembly district; first to sixth election districts of the sixteenth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the ninth district. Tenth district. The nineteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-ninth to thirtyeighth election districts of the third assembly district; first, second, fourth to eighth, fourteenth to sixteenth, and eighteenth election districts of the fifth assembly district; first to seventeenth, twenty to twenty-second, and twenty fitth to forty-first election districts of the seventh assembly district; first to thirty-eighth election districts of the ninth assembly district; first to thirtysixth election districts of the eleventh assembly district; first to sixth, and seventeenth to twenty-fourth election districts of the thirteenth assembly district; sixteenth election district of the twenty-fifth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the tenth district. Eleventh district. The twenty-sixth to thirty-first, and thirty-fifth to fortieth election districts of the sixth assembly district; twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth election districts of the eighth assembly district; sixth to fortysecond election districts of the tenth assembly district; first to forty-third election districts of the fourteenth assembly district; seventh to thirty-ninth election districts of the sixteenth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the eleventh district. Twelfth district.-The first to seventeenth, and twentieth to thirty-ninth election districts of the eighteenth assembly district; first to thirty-ninth election districts of the twentieth assembly dictrict; first to twelfth election districts of the twenty-second assembly district; fourteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth to thirty-eighth election districts of the twenty-fifth assembly district; eighteenth to twenty-first, thirty-first and thirty-second election districts of the twenty-seventh assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the twelfth district Thirteenth district.- The seventh to sixteenth, and twenty-fifth to thirtyfourth election districts of the thirteenth assembly district; first to thirty-fourth election districts of the fifteenth assembly district; first to tenth election districts of the seventeenth assembly district; thirteenth to thirty-seventh election districts of the twenty-second assembly district; first to twenty-third election districts of the twenty-fourth assembly district; first to eight, tenth to seventeenth, twenty-second to thirtieth, and thirty-third to thirty-fifth election districts of the twenty-seventh assembly district; fourth to twelfth election districts of the twenty-ninth assembly district of the county of New York shall compose the thirteenth district. Fourteenth district.-The thirty-fifth election district of the fifteenth assembly district; eleventh to thirty-fourth election districts of the seventeenth assembly district; first to forty-fifth election districts of the nineteenth assembly district; first to forty-seventh election districts of the twenty-first assembly district; first to seventeenth, and twenty-first to forty-first election districts of the twenty-third assembly district; twenty-fourth to thirty-fifth election districts of the twenty-fourth assembly district; first to thirtieth election districts of the twenty-sixth assembly district; ninth election district of the twentyseventh assembly district; first to fourteenth election districts of the twentyeighth assembly district; first to third, and thirteenth to twenty-third election districts of the twenty-ninth assembly district; sixteenth to nineteenth, twentysixth to twenty-eighth, thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-fifth election districts of the thirty-first assembly district of the county of New York shall compose the fourteenth district. Fifteenth district.-The forty-eighth election district of the twenty-first assembly district; eighteenth to twentieth election districts of the twenty-third assembly district; fifteenth to thirty-eighth election districts of the twentyeighth assembly district; twenty-fourth to thirty-eighth election districts of the twenty-ninth assembly district; first to forty-third election districts of the thirtieth assembly district; first to fifteenth, twentieth to twenty-fifth, twentyninth to thirty-third, thirty-sixth to thirty-eighth, and forty-first to forty-fourth election districts of the thirty-first assembly district; first to forty-second election districts of the thirty-second assembly district; first to forty-first election districts of the thirty-third assembly district; first to thirty-sixth election districts of the thirty-fourth assembly district of the county of New York, shall compose the fifteenth district. Sixteenth district.— The thirty-seventh to sixty-fifth election districts of the thirty-fourth assembly district; first to fifty-ninth election districts of the thirtyfifth assembly district; first to eleventh election districts, annex of the county of New York, together with the county of Westchester, shall compose the sixteenth district. Seventeenth district. The counties of Rockland, Orange and Sullivan shall compose the seventeenth district. |