Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-02

. duties; we ourselves were changed, and the WIN
. world was changed. Tho pecikcalion Of .Epssa
y sfter June 1915. assumed firm and perspfewers
- pect Tho nsllons evidently msniiss0me, except
g w:so disposed for peace, come sssha Be eligible
T. but the stsndeacy y-,f.Ls III.
d. settled shall DO formed Of two distnc,
Il sol (which together shall be complete Lcgis.
On best ana shall be called the General Assembly o.
b. -Tgnia. ss.<ea
2. One Of these shall DO called the House OF Del
egates, and shall consist of ono hundred and thirty
tour members, to be chosen, annually, tor and By
the several counties, cities, towns and borouyhs O.
the Commonwealth; whereof thirty-onc delegates
shall be chosen for and by the counties
ing West of the Allegheny mountains; twenty five
tor and by the fourteen counties lying between the
Allegheny and Blue Rid of mountains; forty two
for and by the twenty counties lying East of the
Blue Ridge OF mountains and above Underwater; and
thirty-sx for and by tho countless Cities towns and
6oroughs lying upon tide water, that is to say: o.
the twenty-six countics lying West of the AlIcrha
ny, the counties Of Harrison, Montgomery, MonoTgo
lia Ohio and Washington shall each elect two Dele
gates; and the counties Of Brooke, Cabell Grayson
Greenbrter, Giles, Kanawha, Lee, Lewis, Logan
Mason, Mopsoe, Nicholas, Pocahontas Preston. Ran.
dolph, Russell, Scott, Tazcwell, Tyler, Wood and
Wyfhe, shall each elect one Delegate. Ofthe four.
teen counties lying between the Allegheny and Blue
Ridge, the counties Of Frederick and Shenandoah
shall each elect three Delegates the counties of Au
gusta, berkeley, Botctourt, Hampshire, Jefferson
Rockingham and Rockbridgc, shall each elect two
Delegates; and tho counties Of Allegheny. Bat h
Hardy, Morgan and Pcndleon, shall each elect one
Delegate. or the twenty counties lying Eas
OF the Blue Ridge and above tidc-water, the count,
of Loudon shall elect three Delegates; the counties
Aibemarle, Bedford, Brunswick Buckingham, Camp
beil, Culpepor, Fuuquier, Franklin, Halifax, Neck
'enburg and Pittsyivania, shall each elect two Dele
gafes and the counties of Amelia, Amherst, Char
lottc Cumberland. Dinwiddic, Fluvanna, Goochland
Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Nelson, Motto
way, Orange, Patrick, Powhatan and Prince Edward
shall each elect one Delegate. And of the counties
cities, towns and boroughs lying on tide-water the
counties of Accomuck and Norfolk shall each elect
two Delegates; the counties of Caroline, Chester
field, Essex Fairfax, Greensvle, Gloucester Hano.
ver Henrico, Isle of Wight, King and Queen, King
William, King George, Nansemond. Northumber.
land, Northampton, Princess Anne, Prince George
Prince William, Southampton, Spottsylyania, Stat:
ford, Sussex, Suvry and Westmoreland and the city
OF Richmond the borough of Norfolk, and the town
OF Petersburg, shall each elect one Delerate: tho
counties of Lancaster and Richmond, shall togethe,
elect ono Delegate, tho counties of Matthews & Mid
desex shall together elect one 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
Delegates and the counties of New Kent ana Charles
City shall together cleo. one Delegate.
). The othe. house of the General Assembly
Shall be called the Senate and shall consist of thr
ty two members, of whom thirteen shall be chosen
tor and by the counties lying West of the Blue Ridge
OF mountains, and nineteen for and BY the counties
cities, towns and boroughs lying East thereof and for
the election OF whom, the countless cities. towns and
boroughs shall be divided into thirty-two districts as
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
Tor one Senator; and the Sherfs or other officers
holding the election for cath county, city, town or
borough, within five days farthest after the last
county CITY, town or borough election in the district
sf2ll meet at some convenient place, and from the
n thntrA az.
towns or bcroughs, return Senator the person
who shall have the greatest number OF votes i'm the
whole district To keep up this Assembly by rotn
ton, 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 eectedby the first division shall be Displaced
and the'vacances thereby occasioned supplied from
such class or division by election IN the manner
aforesaid This rotation shall be applied TO each d-
vision according to it's number and continued in due
order annually. A nd for the election of Senator'S
the counties of Brdeke, Ohio and Tyler shall form
one district the counties of Monongaia, Preston and
Randolph, shall form another districts tho counties OF
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form another dis
trict: the counties Of Kanawha, Mason, CabeH. I,o
gan and Nicholas, shall form another district: the
counties of Greenbrier, Monroe, Giles, and Mont
gonery, shall form another district the counties of
Tazewel, Wythe and Grayson, shall form another
district: the counties Of Washington, RUSSELL Scott
and Lee, shae form another district: the counties
ofBerkeley, Morgan and Hampshire shall form anotb-
VI tHe COuntleS OF Trcderck and Jefferson
shall form anottcr district: the counties of Shenan-
doah and Hardy shall form another districts the coun-
ties of Rockingham and Pendleton shall form ano-
Their districts the counties of Augusta 81 Rockbridpe
shall form another district: the counties of
Allegheny, Bath, Pocahontas and Botetourt shall
form another district: the counties of Loudoun and
FAIRFAX shall form another districts the counties of
Fauquier and Prince William shall form another
districts the counties of Stafford, King George,
Nestmorcland, Richmond Lancaster and Northum-
nj Iic,r, 81.
Culpeper, Madison and Orange, shall form another
district: the counties Of Abcmarle, Nelson and Am
herst, shall form another disrict the courtes of Flu
wanna, Goochlund, Louisa and Hanover, shall form
another district: the counties Of Spo,tsyvania Caro-
line and Essex shall form another district: the coup-
ties of King & 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 oil
Charles City, James City, New Kent and Henrico
and the ity of Richmond, shall form another district
the counties Of Bedford and Franklin, shall form
another district: the counties of Buckingham Coun