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So the number 123 was divided into the entire
population of the State to determine the number of repre-
sentatives in the House that each county should have.
Then those seats were all indicated and it meant
increasing the size to 142, allocating 19 additional
seats. But in order to meet the practical problem of
timing, 19 seats were not taken away from the small
counties at that time. Thus, the house and senate, 142,
the house and senate declined to enact the Constitutional
amendment to bring the size of the house back down in
1966, and then later when the problem arose as to reappor-
tioning within the 142 it was left at that figure in con-
venience.
As to the senate apportionment, the critical
problem I believe there was to find a total number of
senators equally divisible by six, because that was the
number of legislative districts in the City of Baltimore
whose senators would have to vote on the question in order
to assure its passage. So that senate districts in the
City of Baltimore would not have to be redistricted.
This is the kind of science that was applied |
