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Article 3 '''Sec. 49. District representation.''' Congressional districts may be altered from time to time as public convenience may require. When a congressional district shall be composed of two or more counties they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. No county shall be divided in the formation of congressional districts.

'''Sec. 50. Apportionment for first legislature.''' Until an apportionment of senators and representatives as otherwise provided by law, they shall be divided among the several counties of the state in the following manner:
 * Albany County, two senators and five representatives.
 * Carbon County, two senators and five representatives.
 * Converse County, one senator and three representatives.
 * Crook County, one senator and two representatives.
 * Fremont County, one senator and two representatives.
 * Laramie County, three senators and six representatives.
 * Johnson County, one senator and two representatives.
 * Sheridan County, one senator and two representatives.
 * Sweetwater County, two senators and three representatives.
 * Uinta County, two senators and three representatives.

'''Sec. 51. Filling of vacancies.''' When vacancies shall occur in the membership of either house of the legislature of the State of Wyoming through death, resignation or other cause, such vacancies shall be filled in such manner as may be prescribed by law, notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of article III of the constitution which is by this section repealed.

'''Sec. 52. Initiative and referendum.'''

(a) The people may propose and enact laws by the initiative, and approve or reject acts of the legislature by the referendum.

(b) An initiative or referendum is proposed by an application containing the bill to be initiated or the act to be referred. The application shall be signed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified voters as sponsors, Rh