On April 5, 1792, George Washington became the first president to do what to a bill, in this case one designed to apportion representatives among several states?
Apportionment Act of 1792 however, allayed Washington's concerns, and on April 5, the president decided to return the bill to the House of Representatives with the two objections that "there is no one proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the States will yield the number and allotment of representatives proposed by the Bill" and that ""the Bill has allotted to eight of the States, more than one [representative] for thirty thousand."" After receiving Washington's veto message, Congress decided on April 10, 1792 to apportion representatives at ""the ratio of one for every thirty-three thousand persons in the respective States"". Washington
Apportionment Act of 1792 signed the revised bill into law on April 14, 1792. Apportionment Act of 1792 The Apportionment Act of 1792 () was the first Apportionment Act passed by the United States Congress on April 10, 1792, and signed into law by President George Washington on April 14, 1792. The Act set the number of members of the United States House of Representatives at 105, effective with the 3rd Congress on March 4, 1793, and established that a number of representatives would be allotted to each state based on the population enumeration provided by the 1790 Census. The final apportionment, which was