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Congressional Apportionment.

An act to apportion the state for representatives to congress. SECTION 1. The county of York, together with the towns of Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, Westbrook, Gorham, Standish, Baldwin, Sebago and Naples, and the city of Portland, from the county of Cumberland, shall compose the first district, and be entitled to one representa

tive.

The remainder of the county of Cumberland, together with the counties of Oxford and Franklin, shall compose the second district, and be entitled to one representative.

All that part of the county of Lincoln on the easterly side of the Kennebec river, together with all the towns in the county of Waldo, except Islesborough, Vinalhaven and North Haven, shall compose the third district, and be entitled to one representative.

The remainder of the county of Lincoln, together with the county of Kennebec and that part of the county of Somerset lying west of the Kennebec river, together with that part of Norridgewock on the east of said river, shall compose the fourth district, and be entitled to one representative.

The remainder of the county of Somerset, together

with the counties of Penobscot and Piscataquis, shall compose the fifth district, and be entitled to one representa

tive.

The counties of Washington, Hancock, and Aroostook, together with the towns of Vinalhaven, North Haven, and Islesborough, in the county of Waldo, shall compose the sixth district, and be entitled to one representative.

SECT. 2. The election of representatives to congress, shall take place and be on the second Monday of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and thereafter biennially.

SECT. 3. The representatives chosen in the several districts, shall at the time of their election, be residents therein. The foregoing division of the state into representative districts, shall be and continue in force until an apportionment among the several states shall be made by congress after the taking of the eighth census.

SECT. 4. So much of section three of an act entitled "an act providing for the choice of representatives to congress," approved February twenty-eight, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-three, as relates to the manner of calling meetings for the choice of representatives to congress, and the duties of officers of towns in presiding in said meetings and making returns of votes; and also sections four, five, six, and seven of said act, shall continue and be in force, except so far as the same may have been changed by the revised statutes of this state.

[Approved April 17, 1852.]

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