Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-16

the others; nor shall any petsun exercise the powers
OF more than one ofthem ut the same time except
that the justices of the county courts shall be eligible
to either House of Assembly.
ARTICLE III.
l. The Legislature shall be formed OF two distinct
branches which together shall be complete Legis
lature, and shall be called the General Assembly of
Virginia
,. One of these shall be called lhe IIsusc of Del
eates, and shall consist of hundred and thirty
four members, TO be chosen, annually for and by
the several countless cities, towns, and borougs of
the Commonwealth; whereof thirty-one Delegates
shall be chosen for and by the twenty-sx counties ly
ing West of the Allegheny mountains; twenty FIVE,
Tor and by the fourteen counties lying between the
Allegheny and Blue Rid, re of mountains forty-two
Tor and by the twentynne counties lying East of the
Blue Ridge OF mountains and above tide-water; and
hrty-sx for and by the counties, Cities towns and
boroughs lying upon Underwater, that is to say: OF
the twenty-six counties lying West of tho Aegha-
ny, the counties of Harrison, Montgomery Mononga-
liza, Ohio and Washington, shall each elect two Dele
gates; and the counties of Brooke, Cabel, Grayson
Greenbricr, Giles, Kunawha, Ice, Lewis Logan
Mason, Monroe Nicholas, Pocahon,as, Preston, Ran
dolph, Russell, Scott, Tazewel, Tyler, Wood and
Wythe, shall each elect one Delegate. Ofthe four
teen counties lying between the Allegheny and Blue
Ridge, the counties of Frederick aud Shenandoah,
shall each elect three Delegates the counties of Au-
gusta, Berkeley, Botctourt, Hampshire, Jefferson
Rockingham and Rockbrdgc, shall each elect two
Delegates; and the counties of Aleghany Bath
ffaruy, Morgan ana Fcndleton, shall each elect one
Delegate. or the twenty niDc counties lying East
of the Blue Ridge and above tdc-water the county
of Loudon shall elect three Delegates the counties of
Albcmare, Bedford, Brunswick, Buckingham, Camp
bell, Culpepcr Fauquicr, Franklin, Halifax Neck
enburg and Pittsyvania, shall each elect two Dele
gates; and the counties of Amelia, Amherst Char
otte, Cumberland. Dinwiddic, Fluvanna, Goochland
Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Nelson, Motto
way, Orange, Patrick, Powhatan and Prince Edward,
shall each elect Delegate. And of the counties
cities, towns and boroughs lying tidcwaier the
counties of Accoinack and Norfolk shall each elect
two Delegates the counties of Caroline, Chester
hcld Essex Fairfax, Greensvillc, Gloucester, Iano-
yer, Henrico, Isle Of Wight, King and Queen King
William, King George, Nansomond, Northumbcr-
land, Northampton, Princess Anne, Prince Georrc
Prince William, southampton, Spotsylvania, Stat
ford Sussex, Surry and WestInoreland, and the city
of Richmond the borough of Norfolk and re town
of Petersburg, shall each elect enc Delegate; the
counties of Lancaster and Richmond shall together
elect one Delegate, the counties Matthews g. Mid
deseX shall together elect one Delegate the counties
of Elizabeth City and Warwick shall together elect
one Delegate, the counties of James City and York
and the city of Williamsburg shall together elect one
Delegate; and the counties of New Ken, Charles
City shall together elect one Delegate.
B. The other House of the General Assembly
shall be called the Senate, and shall consist of thir-
ty-two members, Of whom thirteen shall be chosen
for and by the counties lying West of the Blue Rdre
of mountains, and nineteen for and by the counties,
Cities towns and boroughs lying East thereof and fol
the election OF whom the counties, cities towns and
boroughs shall be divided into thiriy-two districts as
herein after provided Each county ofthc respective
districts, the time of the first election of its Dele
gate or Delegates under this Constitutions shall vot
for one Senator; and the SheFfs or other officers
holding the election for cath county, city, town or
borough, within five days at 6rihest after the last
county, city, town borough election in the district
seall meet at some convenient place, and from the
polls so taken IN their respective counties, cities
towns or boroughs, return a Senator the person
who shall have the greatest number ofvotes in the
whole district. To keep up this Assembly by rotu-
tion 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 mem
bers elected by the first division shall be displaced
and the'vacancies thereby occasioned, supplied from
such class or division by election the manner
aforesaid. This rotation shall be applied to each di-
vision according 10 its number and continued in due
order annually. And for the election of Senator'S
the counties of Brooke, Ohio and Tyler shall form
one district: the counties Of Mouongaia Preston and
Randolph shall form another district the counties of
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form another dis
trict: the counties of Kanawha, Mason, Cabell, Lo
gan and Nicholas, shall form another district: the
counties of Greenbrier, 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 Berkecy, Morgan and Hampshire shall form anoth
er district: the counties of Frederick and Jefferson
shall form another district: the counties of Shenan-
doah and Hardy shall form another disric the coun-
lIeS vi anu IcnuleJOn snail form
Their district: the counties of Augusta a. Rockbridre
shall form another district: the counties Of
Allegheny, Bath Pocahontas and Botetourt sholl
form another district: the counties of Loudoun and
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 NOrthun-
berand shall form another district: the counties of
Culpeper, Madison and 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 Spottsyvania Caro-
line and Essex, shall form another district: the coun-
ties of King g. Queen, King William, Gloucester
Matthews and Middlesex, 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, James City, New Kent and Hcnrco,
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
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