Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-01-07

the Nfiei6 members. felt u decided preference tor
the schema. OF the gentleman from Goochand. The
meeting resulted in the appointment of Committee,
consisting of gentleman from, the trans-Alleghany
district and myself TO confer, on the following day,
with those members of the forty nine who represented
tue districts lying east OF the Ridge-to ascertain
whether they could unite in any scheme of compro-
mise which would be acceptable to the western
members, snd to report the result to second
meeting OF the torty-line members, to be held
on the following evening. The Committee which
have mentioned did accordingly confer, in the
course of the following day, with all the members be-
fore alluded to east of the Ridge, except the
venerable. Elk President of this body. who bad
not attended the meeting of the evening before
The result was that the members of the forty mime
residing cast of the Ridge concurrcd recommend
ing to their political friends of the west, compro-
mise scheme of representation exactly according in
the actual distribution of power, with that of the
gentleluan from Albemarle. The scheme proposed
oy those gentlemen was, House of Delegates of
one hundred and twenty members, and a Senate of
thirty-sx The members of the House of Delegates
to be distributed fifty to the West and seventy to
the East; those of the Senate, fifteen to the Yves;
anu twenty one 10 the East: this appointment of
representation to remain unchanged till the yenr
ISL when, and at the expiration of every ten years
thereafter, reapportionnnnt of representation may
be made by lazy i'll regard to the House of Dele
gates" The gentlemen in question also desired
the committee to report that "they were not 10 be
considered as peremptoriy pledged, iii any and all
events, to vote Tor the final adoption of the scheme
recommended. but merely as offering plan, which.
as then advised, they were determined 20 s,rnnort
should it prove acceptable to their political friends of
the vest"
no TE coN'rI3rED.
~ In the new amended Constitution. rs we
published 1t yesterday, from the first draft Of the Sc
iecc committee, blanks we're left Mt the end OF
the I'd and 9TH section for the arrangement of
the counties, sc. These were filed up bv the
Select Committee, as follows:
The blank at tie end of the Sd sertion ,rhs fI.a
with these words:
of the twenty six counties lying West Of the AL
eghany, the counties Of Harrison, Ohio and Wash
ington shall each elect two delegates; and the coun-
Ties OF Brooke, Cabel, Grayson, Greenbrier, Giles
Monroe, ngomery, Nicholas, Pocahontas. Pres
tor, Randolph, Russell, Scott, Pazewe TYLER.
w GOD and Vythe shall each elect one delegate; of
.ne i T counties lying between the Allegheny
anu Blue Ridge OF Mountains, the connies of FrctIe
TICK anu Shenandc All shall each elect three deerates
the counties of Augusta Botetourt, Hampshire, JEFF
ierson, Rockingham and Rockbrdge, shall each elect
Two delegates and the counties of Allegheny Bath,
hardy and Pendleton, shall each elect one delegate
~ the twenty nine counties lying East of the Blue
Ridge of Mountains aud above tide water the conn
ty OF Loudoun shall elect three delegates; the coun-
ties of Albemarle, Bedford BuciSinSham Can,nheII
Culpeper, Fauqer Halifax, Mecklenbure and P;tt,
sylVana, shall each elect two delegates; and the
counties of Amelia, Amherst, Brunswick Charlotte
Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Franklin, Fnvanna, Goocb
land, Henry, Louisa, Lunenbore Madison. Nelson
Edward, shall each elect one delegate. And of the
counties, cities, towns and borousiis, living on the
toe water, the couaties of Aceomac and Norfolk
SHALL each elect two delegates; the counties of Caro-
line, Chesterfield Essex Fairfax Creenay;,Ia o.
cester, Hanover, Henrico, Isle of Wight Kino e.
Queen, King William, Nansemond, New Kent, Nor
cumberland, Northampton, Princess Anne, Prince
William, southampton, Spottsylvania Stafford and
Sussex, and the City of Richmond the Borouuh ri
Norfolk and the town of Petersburg shall each elect
one delegate; the counties of Lancaster and Rich
mond shall together elect one deegate the counties
OF Vestmoreand and King George shall togethsr
elect ons delegate; the counties of Mathews and Mid
| desex, shall together elect one delegate: the coun
ties OF Elizabeth City, Warwick and York, shall to-
Sether elect one delegate the counties of James Otv
and Charles City, and the city of WILLIAMSBURG shall
together elect one delegate; and the counties of
Prnce George and Surry, shall together elect one de-
legate."
And the blank at the end Of the 4th SECTION was
filled With these words:
Brooke, Ohio and Fyler, shall form one district.
the counties Of H1onongalia Preston and Randolph
skail form another district; the counties of Harrison
Lewis and Wood, shall form another district; the
counties OF kanawha, Mason, Cabe LOGAN and
Nicholas, shall form another district; the counties of
Greenorer Monroe, Giles Pocahontas and Alleoba
n.y. shall form another district the counties of Yytbe
Grayson and Iazeweil, shall form another district;
the counties of Washington, Russell Scott and Ipe
shau form another district the counties Of Berkeley
Morgan and Hampshire, shall form another district
the counties of Jefferson and Frederick sha form an
o'"e, oisiicl Tue county OF shenandoah shall form
unother dlstric the counties of Rockppba IIor
dy and Pendleton, shall form another district; the
counties OF Bath and Rockbridge, shall form another
district; the counties of Botetourt and Montgomery
shai form another district; The counties of Loudoun
and FaiSfhx, shall form another district: tho connie;
OF FadquIer and Prince William shall form another
district; the counties of Stafford, King George.
w estmoreland Richmond, Lancaster and Northum
oefiand shal form another district; the counties Of
CuipePer, Madison and Orange, shall form another
district; the counties of Albemarle, Nelson and Am
herst, Shall form another district the counties Of
iuvanha, Gooehland, Louisa and Hanover shall form
another district; the counties of Spottsvlvania Ia
roline and Essex, shall form another district; the
counties Of King q Queen, King William, Glouces
ter Matthews and Mddlescx, shall form another dis
tr1ct; the counties of Acconac Northampton Eliza
beth City, York and Warwick, and the CITY of VIII
lamsburg, shall form another district the counties
OF Charles City James City, New Kent and Henrico,
ana the city OF Richmond, shall form another dis
trct; the Counties Of Bedford franklin and Patrick
shall form another district; the counties Of Cann