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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
tted at the morning session, was again presented with amendments. On motion of Mr. Staples, the unfinished business was laid upon the table and an ordinance to reapportion the districts of the State was taken up and considered. In the course of the argument it was stated that the 9th district originally embraced Jefferson county. The committee proposed to annex Jefferson to the 10th Congressional District, and to supply the deficiency in the 9th by adding to it Warren and Page. Mr. Borst moved to restore the 9th District is originally reported. The motion was fully discussed and was finally rejected. An ordinance was then passed reapportioning Congressional Districts, and was as follows: To Be, it Ordained, That number of members to State is untitled in the House of Representatives of the Confederate States, shall continue to be apportioned. Amongst the several counties in corporations of the State, arranged into Sixteen Districts. It was further provid