Duty of legislature to fix number of representatives and apportion them among counties following each decennial census; each county entitled to at least one representative

Alabama Constitution (January 1901)

Ala. Const. art IX, s 199 - 199
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It shall be the duty of the legislature at its first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States in the year nineteen hundred and ten, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of representatives and apportion them among the several counties of the state, according to the number of inhabitants in them, respectively; provided, that each county shall be entitled to at least one representative.