The Text

The Assembly shall consist of one hundred and thirty-nine members, who shall be chosen by counties, and shall be apportioned among the several counties of the State, as nearly as may be, according to the number of inhabitants thereof, excluding aliens, and shall hold office for one year.
Each county shall be entitled to at least one member, except the counties of Fulton and Hamilton shall elect together, until the population of the county of Hamilton shall, according to the ratio, entitle it to a member. No new county shall be made, unless its population, according to the last preceding enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, excluding aliens, made in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. A like apportionment shall be made by the Legislature at its first session after every such enumeration, and every apportionment shall remain unaltered until another enumeration.