Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-02-19

sVes OF Tie good people Of Virginia, elected an
= In Convention assembled, in pursuance Of til
SAID act OF Assembly, do submit and propose I
Q the people the following amended Constitu,io
i and From of Government of this Common
Q AKTICLEI.
The Declaration of Rights made on the 12,l
!, June, l770, by the representatives Of the 200,
D Convention, which portaincd to thcn and thc
posterty, the basis aud foundat ion OF (sover n
ment requiring in the opinion Of this Conycn
, ton no amendment, shall be prefxea to Thu
Constitution, and have the same relation ther ct,
; ms 1t had to the former Constitution ofthis Com
nionwealth.
}, ARTICLE
The Legislative, Executive, aud Judiciary
Departments, shall be separate and distinct, ~
that neth-t exercise the powers properly belong
ing to either ofthc others; nor shall any person
exercise the powers OF more than one of them
1T the same time, except that tho Justices of tho
County Courts shall be eligible to either House
of Assembly.
j. The Legislature shall be formed of tw, dis
tinct branches, which together shall be a com.
plete Legislature, and shall be called the Cen
eral Assembly Of Virginia.
= One of these shall /. called tho House of
Delegates, and shall consists of one hundred and
thirty-four members To be chosen, annually, for
and by the several counties, cities, towns and
boroughs of the Commonwealth whereof thlr-
ty-one Delegates shall be chosen for and by the
twenty.six counties lying West of ALE.
ghany mountains, twenty-five for and by the
fourteen counties lying between the Aliepha-
ny and Blue Ridge of mountains Eorty.two
Tor and by the twentY-nine counties lying East
OF the Blue Ridge of mountains and above tide
water and thirty-six for and by the counties.
cities, towns and boroughs lying upon tide.
water that is to say. OF the twenty.six coun-
ties lying West Of the Allegheny, the counties
OF Harrison, Montgomery, Monongalia, Ohio
and Washington, shall each elect Two Dele
gates and the counties OF Brook Cabeli, Gray
son, Greenbrier Giles, kanawha, Lee, Lewis,
Logan, Mason, Monroe, Nicholas, Pochahuntas
Preston, Randolph, Russell, Scott, 1'uzewelI.
Tyler, Wood and Wythe, shall each elect one
Delegate. Ofths fourteen counties lying be-
tween the Allegheny and Blue Ridge, the couu.
lies OF Frederick and Shenandoah, shall each
elect three Delegates the counties of Augusta,
Berkcly, Botetourt, Hampshire, Jefferson, Rock.
ingham and RockLridse, shall each elect two
Delegates: and the counties of ALLEGHENY
Bath, Hardy, Morgan and Pendloton, shall each
cleo! ON; Delegate. Ofthe twcaty- mine eoun-
tics lying East Of the Blac Ridge, mad aboy.
Underwater, the county of Loudoun shall elect
three Delegates; the counties of Albemarle,
Bedford, Brunswick, buckingham Campbell
CulPoper, Fasqnior Franklin, Halifax, Neck.
iemburg and Piitsylvania, shall each elect two
Delegates and the counties of Amelia, Am.
wanna. Goochand, Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg
Madison, Nelson, Nottoway, Orange, Patrick
Powhatan and Prince Edward, shall each elect
one Delegate. And of the counties, cities,
towns and boroughs lying on Underwater, the
counties of Accomack and Norfolk, shall each
elect two Delegates tho counties of Caroline,
Chesterfield, Essex Fairfax; Greensvil!e, Gluu-
cester, Hanover, fienrico, Isle of Wight King
" Queen, King William, King George, Nanse-
mond, Northumberland, Northampton, Princess
Anne, Prince George, Prince William, South.
ampton, SpOttsylvania, Stafford, Sussex Surry
and Westmoreland, and the city of Richmond,
the borough of Norfolk, AID the town Of Peters
burg, shall each elect one Delegate tho coun-
ties, OF Lancaster and Richmond, shall together
elect one Delegate the counties Of Mathews &
Middlesex, shall together elect one Delegate ;
the counties Of Elizabeth City and Wafwick.
shall together elect one Delegate the counties
OF James City and York and tho city of Viii.
liamsburgh, shall together elect one Delepats :;
and the counties of New Kent and Charles
City, shall together elect one Delegate
g. The other House of tho General Assembly
shall be called tho Senate shall consist of thir:
two members, Of whom thirteen shall be chosen
TO! and by the counties lying West of the Blue
| Ridge OF mountains, nineteen for and by the
counties, cities, towns and boroughs lying East
thereof, and for The election of whom, the coun.
ties, cities, towns and boroughs shall be divided
into ;1 districts, as herein after provided. Each
county OF the respective districts at the time of
the first election of its Delegate or Delegates
under this Constitution, shall vote for one Sen.
ator and the Sheriffs, other officers holding
the election for each county, city, town or Dor.
lough, within hive days ut farthest after the last
lcounty, city, town or borough election in the
district, shall meet ut some convenient place,
and from the poll SO taken in their respective
lcounties, cities, towns or boroughs, return as a
Senator the person who shall have the greatest
number of votes in the whole district. TO keep
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be equally divided into four classes and number.
ed by lot. At the end Of one year after the
first general election, the eight members cleo.
ted by the first division shall be displaced and
tho vacancies thereby occasioned, supplied from
such class or division by new election in the
manner aforesaid. This rotation shall be appl
led to each division according 10 its number apt
lcontlnued in due order annuaily-And for tn,
detection of Senators, tho counties Of Brooke
Ohio and Tyler, eholl form one district tb.
) cuuntles Of MonoDgalis, Preston and Ranuolpi
, shall form another district (; the counties q
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form anotl,e
, district; the counties Of Kanawba, Mason Ca
bell, Logan and Nicholas, shall form ano,bc
J district the counties Of Greenbrier, Monroe
Giles and Montgomery, shall form another dis
irict the counties Of Tazewell, Wytbe an
Groyson, shall form another district the coun
ties of Washington, Russell, Scott and Lee sl,a
form another district the counties of Befkele
Morgan and Hampshire, shall form another di,
: trict; the counties Of Frederick and Jefferso,
u shall form another district tile counties ,
shenandoah and Hardy shall form another di
: Irict; the coDniies of Rockingham aud Pendle
, ton shall form another district, the counties ,
a Augusta and Rockbridgc shall foro another di
), trict the counties Of Allegheny, Bath, Pooh,
q hontas and Botetourt, shall form another d
= trict the counties Of Londoun and Fairfax sha
L form another district the counties If Fauouir
and Prince William shall form another district
II The counties Of Stafford. King George Wes
:, lmorcland, Richmond, Lancaster and Northuu
l. lberland, shall form another district the cou,