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Section 6. The return judges shall execute, under their hands and seals, a general and true return of the whole district, which, in case such return is of the general election, shall be deposited with the prothonotary of the county wherein the return is executed, or, in case the return is of a primary election, with the county commissioners of such county. Immediately upon the receipt of such return, the prothonotary or county commissioners, as the case may be, shall make copies of such return, and shall transmit one copy thereof, properly certified, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the other copy or copies, also certified, to the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes cast at the preceding general or primary election for the office for which the election was held or the nominations were made in the district.

Section 7. Every return judge shall receive, out of the treasury of his proper county, the

sum of ten dollars for each day actually employed in computing such vote, and, in addition thereto, shall receive ten cents for every mile necessarily traveled in going to and from the place of meeting.

Section 8. The first election under this act shall be held at the general election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. The members of Congress now in office shall continue in such office until the expiration of their respective terms.

Vacancies now existing or happening after the passage of this act and before the commencement of the terms of the members elected at the election of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the manner now provided by law in the particular district or at large, as the case may be.

Section 9. * • All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed.

APPORTIONMENT OF THE STATE INTO SENATORIAL

DISTRICTS.

(Act of May 10, 1921, P. L. 449.) Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, until the next United States decennial census is taken, and an apportionment made thereon, the Senate shall consist of fifty members, and the State is hereby apportioned into fifty Senatorial districts, each of which shall be known by the number herein attached thereto, and shall each be entitled to elect one Senator, as follows, to wit:

First District-The first, twenty-sixth, thirtysixth, thirty-ninth, and forty-eighth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Second District-The second, third, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and thirtieth wards of the city of Philadelphia,

Third District-The fifth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and eighteenth wards of the city of Philadelphia. Fourth District-The twenty-fourth, twentyseventh, thirty-fourth, fortieth, forty-fourth, and forty-sixth wards of the city of Philadelphia. Fifth District-The seventeenth, nineteenth, twentieth, thirty-first, and thirty-seventh wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Sixth District-The twenty-first, twenty-second, thirty-eighth, and forty-second wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Seventh District-The fifteenth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, and forty-seventh wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Eighth District-The twenty-third, twentyfifth, thirty-third, thirty-fifth, forty-first, fortythird and forty-fifth wards of the city of Philadelphia.

Ninth District-The county of Delaware. Tenth District-The county of Bucks. Eleventh District-The county of Berks. Twelfth District-The county of Montgomery. Thirteenth District-All that part of the county of Lancaster not included in the seventeenth district.

Fourteenth District- The counties of Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne.

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Nineteenth District-The county of Chester. Twentieth District-The townships of Black Creek, Butler, Conyngham, Dallas, Denison, Dorrance, Foster, Fairmount, Fairview, Hazle, Hollenback, Hunlock, Huntingdon, Lake, Lehman, Jackson, Kingston, Nescopeck, Plymouth, Ross, Salem, Slocum, Sugarloaf, Union, and Wright; and the boroughs of Conyngham, Court. dale, Dallas, Dorranceton, Edwardsville, Forty Fort, Freeland, Jeddo, Kingston, Larksville, Nanticoke, Nescopeck, New Columbus, Nuangola, Plymouth, Shickshinny, West Hazleton, and White Haven; and the city of Hazleton, in the county of Luzerne.

Twenty-first District- The residue of the county of Luzerne, not included in the twentieth

district.

wanna.

Twenty-second District-The county of LackaTwenty-third District-The counties of Bradford, Susquehanna, and Wyoming.

Twenty-fourth District-The counties of Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, and Sullivan. Twenty-fifth District-The counties of McKean, Potter, and Tioga.

Twenty-sixth District-The counties of Cameron, Clarion, Clinton, Elk, and Forest. Twenty-seventh District-The counties of

Northumberland, Snyder, and Union.

Twenty-eighth District-The county of York. Twenty-ninth District-The county of Schuyl

kill.

Thirtieth District-The counties of Blair and Huntingdon.

Thirty-fourth District-The counties of Centre berland, Juniata, Mifflin, and Perry.

Thirty-second District-The county of Fayette. Thirty-third District-The counties of Adams

and Franklin.

Thirty-fourth District-The counties of Centre and Clearfield.

Thirty-fifth District-The county of Cambria. Thirty-sixth District-The counties of Bedford, Fulton, and Somerset.

Fifteenth District-The county of Dauphin. Sixteenth District-The county of Lehigh. Seventeenth District-The county of Lebanon; and the boroughs of Adamstown, Akron, Columbia, Denver, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, Marietta, Mount Joy, and Mountville; and the townships of Clay, Conoy, East Co-ninth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and Fortieth District-All the boroughs and townships in that portion of Allegheny county lying north of the Ohio, and Allegheny rivers; and the boroughs of East Pittsburgh, East McKeesport, Pitcairn, Turtle Creek, Wall, and Wilmerding; and the townships of Braddock, Pat- borough of Sunbury, in the county of Northumton, Plum and Wilkins, in the county of Allegheny.

Calico, East Donegal, Elizabeth, Ephrata, Mount Joy, Penn, Rapho, Warwick, West Cocalico, West Donegal, and West Hempfield, in the county of Lancaster.

Thirty-seventh District-The counties of Indiana and Jefferson.

Thirty-eighth District-The first, second, sixth,

nineteenth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny. Thirty-ninth District-The county of Westmoreland.

The return judges of the twenty-sixth district shall meet at the court house in the city of Lock Haven, in the county of Clinton.

Forty-first District-The counties of Armstrong and Butler.

Forty-second District-The twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twentyfifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh wards of the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny.

Forty-third District-The third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and fifteenth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny.

Forty-fourth District-The eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, the city of McKeesport, and all the boroughs and townships in that portion of Allegheny county lying between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, not included in the fortieth district.

Forty-fifth District-All the boroughs and townships in that portion of Allegheny county lying south of the Ohio and Monongahela rivers, and the twentieth ward of the city of Pittsburgh, in said county.

Forty-sixth District-The counties of Greene and Washington.

Forty-seventh District-The counties of Beaver

and Lawrence.

The return judges of the twenty-seventh district shall meet at the court house in the berland.

The return judges of the thirtieth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Hollidaysburg, in the county of Blair.

The return judges of the thirty-first district shall meet at the court house in the borough of New Bloomfield, in the county of Perry.

The return judges of the thirty-third district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin.

The return judges of the thirty-fourth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield.

The return judges of the thirty-sixth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Bedford, in the county of Bedford.

The return judges of the thirty-seventh district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana.

The return judges of the forty-first district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong.

The return judges of the forty-sixth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Washington, in the county of Washington.

The return judges of the forty-seventh district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver.

The return judges of the forty-eighth dis

Forty-eighth District-The counties of Ven-trict shall meet at the court house in the city

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census.

Section 3. The nomination and election of State Senator, which the qualified electors of any county or any part of a county are entitled to elect of themselves unconnected with any other county or district, shall me made, held, and conducted, and the return of votes cast at primary and general elections for the nomination and election of such members shall be made, computed, canvassed, and certified, as now or hereafter may be provided by law.

In all senatorial districts comSection 4. posed of two or more counties, the county commissioners of each of such counties, in the case of primary elections, and court of common pleas, in the case of general elections, shall appoint one of the judges of elections of such county comprised within such district to take charge of the returns of all votes cast at any primary or general election in said county for any candidate or candidates for the nomination of State Senator from said district.

Section 5. Such return judges shall meet at such places in their respective districts as herein designated.

The return judges of the fourteenth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Stroudsburg, in the county of Monroe.

The return judges of the seventeenth district shall meet at the court house in the city of Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon.

The return judges of the twenty-third district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Towanda, in the county of Bradford.

The return judges of the twenty-fourth district shall meet at the court house in the city of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming.

The return judges of the twenty-fifth district shall meet at the court house in the borough of Coudersport, in the county of Potter.

of Franklin, in the county of Venango.

The return judges of the fiftieth district shall meet at the court house in the city of Meadville, in the county of Crawford.

Section 6. Such return judges shall meet and cast up the several returns of the counties composing the district on the Tuesday next following the day on which the official computation of the county returns in all of such counties shall have been completed.

Section 7. The return judges shall execute, under their hands and seals, a general and true return of the whole district, which, in case such return is of the general election, shall be deposited with the prothonotary of the county wherein the return is executed, or, in case the return is of a primary election, with the county commissioners of such county. Immediately upon the receipt of such return, the prothonotary or county commissioners, as the case may be, shall make copies of such return, and shall transmit one copy thereof, properly certified, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and one copy, also certified, to the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes cast at the preceding general or primary election for the office for which the election was held or the nominations were made in the district.

Section 8. Every return judge shall receive, out of the treasury of his proper county, the sum of ten dollars for each day actually employed in computing such vote, and, in addition thereto, shall receive ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and from the place of meeting.

Section 9. At the general election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and quadrennially thereafter, Senators shall be chosen to serve for four years in the evennumbered districts. At the general election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twentyfour, and quadrennially thereafter, Senators shall be chosen to serve for four years in the oddnumbered districts.

The Senators now in office shall continue in such office, and shall respectively represent the districts as herein apportioned in which they reside until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected.

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*All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

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