On Monday night last the joint committee of the House and Senate made a final agreement as to the division of the State into six districts, the first election under this apportionment to take place next October. On Tuesday the bill was introduced into the House and passed. The districts are composed as follows:
FIRST DISTRICT.
Lee, Des Moines, Louisa, Henry, Washington, Jefferson, Van Buren, Davis.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Muscatine, Scott, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Linn, Cedar.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Delaware, Dubuque, Clayton, Alamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Mitchell, Worth, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Chickasaw, Fayette, Bremer.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Appanoose, Monroe, Wapello, Keokuk, Mahaska, Marion, Johns, Iowa, Poweshiek, Jasper, Tama, Benton.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Wayne, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Page, Fremont, Lucas, Clark, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Mills, Warren, Madison, Adair, Cass, Pottowattamie, Polk, Dallas, Guthrie, Audubon, Shelby, Harrison.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Marshall, Story, Boone, Greene, Carroll, Crawford, Monona, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Grundy, Hardin, Hamilton, Webster, Calhoun, Sac, Ida, Woodbury, Butler, Franklin, Wright, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Buena Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Clay, O’brien, Sioux, Winnebago, Emmett, Dickenson, Osceola, Buncombe.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 2
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