624 CONGRESSIONAL AND COUNCILOR DISTRICTS IN 1873.

be a freehold whereof he is seized in his own rightand from section 29th
the words, “ and seized of a freehold estate in his own right of the value
of a hundred pounds, being within this State f and section 42cl the words,
and imless he shall at the same time have an estate of the value of five hun-
dred pounds, one half of which shall consist of a freehold in his own right
within this State.'¹'¹

The foregoing property qualifications are stricken out, and the consti-
tution is thus amended by the suffrages of more than two thirds of the
legal voters present in town meeting and voting upon the questions.

[L. S.] Given under my hand, and the seal of the State affixed, at the
Council Chamber, September the sixteenth, A. D., 1852, and of
the independence of the United States of America the seventy-
seventh.

NOAH MARTIN.

By the Governor—

John L. Hadley, Secretary of State.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Secretary of State’s Office, )
Concord, January 21th, 1853.    >

A. true copy of the original—

Attest: John L. Hadley, Secretary of State.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IN 1873.

New-JIampshire is entitled to three members in the National House
>f Representatives, and the State is divided into three districts, as fol-
low:

District Number One—Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap, and Car-
roll counties.

District Number Two—Merrimack and Hillsborough counties.

District Number Three—Cheshire, Sullivan, Grafton, and Coos
counties.

COUNCILOR DISTRICTS IN 1873.

The State is divided into five Councilor districts, each of which may
choose one Councilor annually.

Council District Number One contains the county of Rockingham,
except the city of Portsmouth and the towns of Gosport, Greenland,
Hampton, Newcastle, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Rye,
South Newmarket, and Stratham, and the county of Merrimack, except
the towns of Bradford, Newbury, New-London, Sutton, Warner and
Wilmot.

Council District Number Two contains the county of Strafford, the
county of Belknap, except the towns of New Hampton, Sanbornton, and
Tilton, and the city of Portsmouth, and the towns of Gospox*t, Green-
land Hampton, Newcastle, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton,
Rye, South Newmarket, and Stratham, in the county of Rockingham.

Council District Number Three contains the county of Hillsbo