Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-11


to either House Of Assembly.
ARTICLE III.
I. Vhe Legislature shall be formed Of two distinct
branches which together shall be complete Legis-
lature, and shall be called the General Assembly of
Virginia.
9. One of these shall be called The House Of Del
cgntes, and shall consist Of hundred and thirty
four members, to be chosen annually, for and bv
the several counties cities, towns, aud borouchs OF
the Commonwealth; whereof thirty-one delerutes
shall be chosen for and by the twcntysix counties y
ing West of the Allegheny mountains; twenty Ave-
for and by the fourteen counties lying between the
Allegheny and Blue Ridge of mountains; fortv-two
for and by the wcntyninc counties lying East of the
Blue Ridge of mountains and above Underwater; and
thirty-sx for and by the counties, Cities towns and
boroughs lying upon tidc-water that is to say: OF
the twcnty-sx Counties lying West OF the A,lcChn-
ny, the counties of Harrison, Mont gomery, Mononca
LA, Ohio and Washington, shall each elect two Dele
gates and tho counties of Brooke, Cabell, Grnyson
Grecnbricr. Giles, Kanawha, Lee, Lewis, Logan,
Mason, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahonas. Preston, an
dolph, Russell, Scott, Tazeweli, Tyler, Wood and
Nythc, shall each elect one Delegate. Ofthe fonr-
teen counties lying between the Alcghany and Blue
Ridge, tho counties of Frederick snd Shenandoah,
shall each cleo. three Delegates the counties of Au-
gusta, Berkeley. Botetourt, Hampshire, Jefferson,
Rockingham and Rockbriosc, shall each elect two
Delegates and the counties OF Allegheny. Bat l.
Hardy, Morgan and Pendeton, shall each elect one
Delegate. or the twcnty-ninc counties lying East
Of the Blue Ridge and above tdc-waor, the county
OF Loudon shall elect three Delegates; the counties of
AloeUlaIle, DSuIOru, brunswick, buCktnuham, Camp
bell, Cupeper, Fauquier, Franklin, Halifax, Neck
lenburg and Pttsylvania shall each elect two Dele
gates and the counties of Amelia, Amherst, Char
lotto Cumberland. Dlnwiddie, Fiuvanna, Goochland,
Henry, Louisa, I.unenburg, Madison, Nelson, MOTTO
way, Orange, Patrick. Powhatan and Prince Edward
shall each elect one Delegate. And of the counties
cities, towns and boroughs lying tde-wa,cr, the
counties of Accomack and Norfolk shall each elect
two Delegates; the counties of Caroline, Chester
Geld Essex, Fairfax, Grcensville, Gloucester Hano-
yer. Henrico. Isle of Wight. King and Queen Kinr
William, King George. Nansemond. Northumber-
land Northampton, Princess Anne, Prince George
Prince William, southampton. Spottsylvania. Stuf
ford, Sussex, Surry and Westrnoreland and the CITY
of Richmond, the borough of Norfolk, and the town
of Petersburg, shall each elect che Delegate; the
counties of Lancaster and Richmond, shall together
elect one Delegate, the counties of Matthew's g. Md
dlesex shall together elect Delegate; the counties
of Elizabeth City and Warwick shall together cleo,
one Delegate the counties of James City and York,
and the city of Williamsburg shall together elect one
Delegate; and the counties of New Kent ara Charles
City shall together elect one Delegate.
5. The other House of the General Assembly
shall be called the Senate, and shall consist of thin
ty'two members, of whom thirteen shall be chosen
for and by the counties lying Yves, of tho Blue RIDGE
of nountsins and nineteen Tor and by the counties
cities towns and boroughs lying East thereof; and for
the election of whom the counties, Cites towns and
bororghs shall be divided into thrtytwe districts
herein after provided Each county ofthe respective
districts, at the time of the first election of its Dele
gate or Delegates under this Constitution shall vote
for ono Senator; and the SherGs or other officers
hoding the election for cath county, city, town or
borough, within FIVE days at farlhest after the last
county, city, town borough election in the dist riot
shall meet at some convenient place, and from the
polls 50 taken IN their respective couaties, Cities
towns or boroughs, return as Senator the person
who shall have the greatest number fvotes in the
whole district To keep up this Assembly by rota-
tion the districts snail be equally divided into four
classes, and numbered by lot. At the end of one
year after the FIRST general election, the eight mem
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and te'Tacances thereby occasioned, supplied from
such class or division by new election IN the manner
aforesaid This rotation shall be applied to each di-
vision according TO it's number and continued in due
order annually. And for the election of Senators.
the counties of Brooke, Ohio and Tyler shall form,
one districts the counties OF Monongala Preston and
Randolph shall form another districts tho counties of
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form another dis
trlct the counties Of Knnawhn, Mason, Cabell, Lo
gan and Nicholas, shall form another district the
counties of Greenhrier, Monroe, Giles, and Mont
gomery, shall form another district: The counties of
TaZewell, 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 Shenaa
doah and Hardy shall form another districts tho coun-
ties of Rockingham and Pendleton shall form ano-
Their district: the counties Of Augusta g. Rockbrdne
SHALL form another district the counties Of
Allegheny, Bath, Pocahontas and Botetourt shall
Fairfax shall form another district: the counties of
Fauquier and Prince William shall form another
district: the counties Of Stafford, King George
Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster and Northunn-
oerland. shall form another distrct the counties OF
Culpeper, Madison and Orange, shall form another
district the counties of Albemarle, Nelson and Am
herst, shall form another district the couEtes of Flu
wanna, Goochland, Louisa and Hanover, shall form
another dstrict the counties of Spotsylvana Caro-
line and Essex, shall form another district the coun-
ties of King g. Queen, King William, Gloucester,
Matthews and MIddlescx shall form another district:
the counties Of Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth
City, York and Warwick, and the city of Williams
burg shall form another district; the counties of
Charles City, Jones City, New Kent and Henrico,
and the city Of Richmond shall form unothcr 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
hecklenburg shall form another district the counties
OF Charlotte, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince
Edward, shall form another district: the counties of
Amelia, POwhatan and Chesterfield, and the town of