DRAFT CONSTITUTION 549
Mr. Vice-President : Amendment No. 48 of List II. The question is :
“That for amendment No. 2249 of the List of Amendments, the following be substituted :—
‘That in clause (3) of article 149, for the words “last preceding census” the words “last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published “ be substituted’.”
Following amendments were adopted by the House :
(1) That with reference to amendments Nos. 2249 and 2250 of the list of amendments in clause (3) of article 149, for the words ‘every lakh’ the words ‘every seventy-live thousand’ be substituted.”
(2) “With reference to amendment No. 2252 of the list of Amendments, after the words ‘autonomous districts of Assam’ the words and the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shillong’ be added.
(3) “With reference to amendments Nos. 2256, 2257 and 2258 of List of Amendments, in the proviso to clause (3) of article 149, for the words ‘three hundred’ the words ‘five hundred’ be substituted.”
(4) “That after clause (3) of article 149, the following New Clause be inserted :—
‘(3-a) The ratio between the number of members to be alloted to each territorial constituency in a State and the population of that constituency as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published shall, so far as particable, be the same throughout the State’.”
The amendment was adopted.
(Article 149, as amended was added to the Constitution.)
[The assembly then adjourned till Monday the 16th May 1949.]
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