Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-16

the ELECTION OF WHOM, tue cOunteS cities, towns ont
boroughs shall be divided into thirtytwo districts
herein after provided. Each county ofthe RESPECTIVE,
DISTRICTS at the time of the first election of its Dele
gate Delegates under this Constitution, shall vot,
for one Senator; and the Sherfs other officers
holding the election for cath county, city, town O,
borough, within five days ut frthest after the las,
county. city, town borough election in the district
shall meet at some convenient place, and from the
polls taken IN their respective counties, cities
| towns or boroughs, return as Senator the person
who shall have the greatest number OF votes u the
whole district. To keep up this Assembly, by rota-
lion, the districts shall be equally divided into four
classes, and numbered by lot. At the end of one
year after The first general election, the eight men,
beers elected by the first division shall be displaced
and the.vacancies thereby occasioned supplied from
such class or division by new election IN the manner
aforesaid. This rotation shall be applied to each d-
vision according to its number, and continued in due
order annually And for the election Of Senators,
the counties of Brooke Ohio and Tyler, shall form
districts the counties of MonongaIa Preston and
Randolph, shall form another district: the counties of
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form another dis
trict: the counties of Kanawha, Mason. Cabe Lo
gan and Nicholas, shall form another district: the
counties of GreeDbrier, Monroe Giles, and Mont
gomery, shall form another district the counties of
farewell, Wythe and Grayson, shall form another
district: the counties of Washington RUSSELL Scott
and Lee, shall form another district: the counties
OF berkeley, Morgan and Hampshire shall form anoth
er district: the counties of Frederick and jefferson
shall form another district: the counties of Sbenan-
doah and Hardy shall form another district the coun
fenQletOa
Their district: the counties Of Augustus e. Rockbridge
shall form another district: the counties Of
Allegheny, Bath, Pocabontas and Botetourt shall
form another districts the counties of Loudoun and
Fairfax shall form another district the counties of
Fauquer and Prince William shall form another
district: the counties of Stafford King George,
Westmoreand, Richmond Lancaster and Northum-
berand shall form another district the counties of
Culpeper, Madison aud Orange, shall form another
district: the counties of Abemarle, Nelson and Am
herst shall form another districts the couLtes of Flu
| wanna, Goochland, Louisa and Hanover, shall form
another district the counties of Spotsyvana, Caro-
line and Essex, shall form another district: the coun-
ies,of King g. Queen, King William, Gloucester,
Matthews and Middesex, shall form another district:
the counties of Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth
City, York and Warwick. and the city of Williams
burg, shall form another district: tile counties of
| Charles City, James City, New Kent and Henrico,
and the city of Richmond shall form another district:
| the counties of Bedford and Franklin shall form
another district: the counties of Buckingham Camp-
bell and Cumberland, shall form another district the
counties of Patrick, Henry and Pittsylvania shall
form another district: the counties of Halifax and
Mecklenburg shall form another districts the counties
! of Charlotte, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince
Edward shall form another district: the counties OF
Amelia, Powhatan and Chesterfield, and the town oil
Petersburg, shall form another district: the counties
OF Brunswick, Dinwiddie and GreensVHe, shall form
another districts the counties of Isle of Wight Prince
George, Southampton, Surry and Sussex shall form
another districts and the counties of Norfolk Nanse-
mond and Princess Anne. and the borough of Norfolk
shall form another district.
4. 1t shall be the duty of the Legislature to re-
apportion in ten years, to wit in the year 184l
and every years thereafter the representation of
the counties, Cities towns and boroughs, of this Com
nonwealth, in both of the Legislative bodies Provi-
ded however, that the number OF Delegates from the
aforesaid great districts, and the number of Senators
from the aforesaid two great divisions, respectively,
Shall neither be increased diminished by such re-
| apportionment. And when new county shall here
after be created, or any city, town borough, not
now entitled to separate representation in the House
! of Delegates, shall have increased in population
as to be entitled In the opinion Of the General As
sembly, to such representation, it shall be the duy
of the General Assembly to make provision by law
for securing to the people ofsuch county, or such
city, town or borough, adequate representation.
And If the object cannot otherwise be effected, it
shall be competent to the General Assembly to re-
apportion the whole representation Of the great dig
trict containing such new county such city, town
or borough, within its limits; which reap portionment
shall continue in force till the regular decenna
| re-apportionment.
5. The General Assembly, after the year 1871
and at intervals thereafter of not less than years
shall have authority two-thirds of each House con-
curring to mako re:apportionments of Delegates and
Senator's throughout the Commonwealth, so that the
number of Delegates shall not al any time exceed
| $50, nor of Senators So.
| s. The whole number of members to which the
! State may at any time be entitled in the House O.
Representatives of the United States shall be appor
toned nearly may be, amongst the several coun
ties, cities, boroughs and towns ofthe State accord
ing to Their respective numbers which shall be de
termined by adding to the whole number of fre
persons, including those bound to service for tern
ofyears and excluding Indians not taxed three-ffth
ofall other persons.
z. Any person may be elected Senator who sial
have attained to the age of thirty years, and shall b.
actually resident and freebolder within the district
qualified by virtue Of his freehold, vote for member
of the General Assembly according to this Constitu
ton. And any person may be elected member o
the House of Delegates, who shall have attained thu
re nT fryon -G1- md chon bo on,
resident and reehoder within the county, city, town
borough or election district, qualified by virtue o
his freehold, to vote for members of the Genera
Assembly according to this Constitution: Provided
that all persons holding lucrative Offices and Minis
tiers of the Gospel and Priests of every denomination
shall be incapable of being elected members of eithe
House Of Assembly.
8. The members of the Assembly shall receive 70
their services compensation to be ascertained b,
law, and paid out of the public Treasury; but no Law
increasing the compensation Of the members shal
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