...States, taken by order of Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each State is entitled in the Congress ; also, the enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of the Legislature....

...States, taken by order of Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each State is entitled in the Congress ; also the enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of the Legislature. —...

...accordance with the population of the state. We have seen that Congress determines once in ten years the number of representatives to which each state is entitled in the Congress. Each state is then entitled to as many electors as it has representatives in Congress. The...

...understand it, is that hitherto, under the practice that has been followed by Congress — to designate the number of Representatives to which each State is entitled, in the bill that is passed — it was not necessary for the Congress to determine what method should be employed...

...the duty of the Bureau of the Census to ascertain and report to the President of the United States the number of Representatives to which each State is entitled in the apportionment of 435 Representatives, by the method known as the method of equal proportions, to the...

...authorizing and directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to notify the executives of the States of the number of Representatives to which each State is entitled in the Seventy -third Congress. Have the several States been notified? Mr. McLEOD. Absolutely in accordance...

...prepare the tabulations. The first thing we have to do is to get the count of the population by State* and the number of representatives to which each State...Nothing further, Mr. Chairman. FUNDS REQUIRED FOR 1950 Mr. ROONET. Of the $38.000,000 which you say you expect to obligate in the coming fiscal year,...

...convenes to transmit to the Congress the total population count for the Nation as a whole, as well as the number of representatives to which each state is entitled in the US House of Representatives. Similarly, the counts ultimately influence the composition of almost every...