Such new county shall be entitled to the same number of members in the Legislature that such counties had in the aggregate before consolidation, and such number shall be elected at each general election until a new apportionment shall have been made.

Source: SL 1893, ch 45, § 13; RPolC 1903, § 787; RC 1919, § 5766; SDC 1939, § 12.0309.