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2804 Sixteenth district, Cumberland, Harnett, and Sampson, shall elect two senators.

Seventeenth district, Johnston, shall elect one senator.

Eighteenth district, Greene and Wayne, shall elect one senator.

Nineteenth district, Franklin and Wake, shall elect two senators.

Twentieth district, Warren, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-first district, Granville and Person, shall elect two senators.

Twenty-second district. Orange, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-third district, Chatham, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-fourth district, Caswell, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-fifth district, Rockingham, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-sixth district, Alamance and Guilford, shall elect two senators.

Twenty-seventh district, Randolph and Montgomery, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-eighth district, Moore and Richmond, shall elect one senator.

Twenty-ninth district, Anson and Union, shall elect one senator.

Thirtieth district, Mecklenburg, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-first district, Cabarrus and Stanly, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-second district, Davie and Rowan, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-third district, Davidson, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-fourth district, Forsyth and Stokes, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-fifth district, Surry and Yadkin, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-sixth district, Alexander and Iredell, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-seventh district, Catawba, Gaston, and Lincoln, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-eighth district, Cleveland, Polk, and Rutherford, shall elect one senator.

Thirty-ninth district, Alleghany, Ashe, and Wilkes, shall elect one senator.

Fortieth district. Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania, shall elect one senator.

Forty-first district, Burke, Caldwell, and Watauga, shall elect one senator.

Forty-second district, Madison, Mitchel, McDowel, and Yancy, shall elect one senator.

Forty-third district, Clay, Cherokee, Haywood, Jackson, and Macon, shall elect one senator.

An enumeration of the inhabitants of the State shall be taken under the direction of the general assembly in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and the said senate districts shall be so altered by the general assembly, at the first session after the return of every enumeration taken as aforesaid, or by order of Congress, that each senate district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens and Indians not taxed, and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall, at all times consist of contiguous territory; and no county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district, unless such county shall be equitably entitled to two or more senators.

The house of representatives shall be composed of one hundred and twenty representatives, biennially chosen by ballot, to be elected by the counties respectively, according to their population,