Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-05

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the others nor shall any person exercise the powers
gilmore than one ofthem at the same time, except
that the justices of the county courts shall be eligible
to either House Of Assembly.
ARTICLE III.
!. The Legislature shall be formed Of two distinct
branches, which together shall be complete Legs.
ature, and shall be called the General Assembly of
Virginia.
2. One Of these shall be called ,he House Of Del
cgates and shall consist 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 thirty lone delegates
shall be chosen for and by the twcntysx counties y-
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
for and by the twenty counties lying East of the
Blue Ridge of mountains and above tde-water; and
thirysix for and by the counties, cities, towns and
boroughs lying upon Underwater, that is to say: OF
the twenty-six Counties lying West Of the Allegha-
ny, the counties of Harrison, Mont Mononua-
liz, Ohio and Washington shall each elect two Dele
gates; and the counties of Brooke, Cabell, Grayson
Grccnbrer. Giles, Kanawha, Lee, Lewis, Logan,
Mason, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahon,as, Preston, Ran
doph, Russell, Scott, Tazcwell, TYLER, Wood and
Wythe, 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 Rockbrldgc, shall each elect two
Delegates; and the counties of Allegheny, Bath
Hardy Morgan and Pendleton, shall each elect one
Delegate or the twenty-ninc counties lying East
of the Blue Ridge and above tide err the county
of Loudon shall elect three Delegates; the counties of
Aioemarle, Bedford, Brunswick Buckingham. Camp
bell, Culpcpcr, Fauquier, Franklin, Halifax, Neck
lenburg and Ptsylvana, shall each elect two Dele
gates; and the counties of Amelia, Amherst Char
lotto, Cumberland. Dnwiddie, Ffuvunna, 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 tide-water, the
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two Delegates; the counties of Caroline, Chester
field Essex, Fairfax, Greensvile, Gloucester Hano-
yer, Hcnrico. Isle of Wight. King and Queen, King
William, King George. Nanscmond Northumber-
land, Northampton, Princess Anne, Prince George
Prince William, Southampton, Spottsylvania. Stat.
ford, Sussex Surry and Wcstnoreland, and the CITY
of Richmond, the borough of Norfolk. and the town
of Petersburg, shall each elect one Delegate; the
counties of Lancaster and Richmond, shall together
elect one Delegate, the counties fMatthews & Mid
dleseX shall together elect one Delegates 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 Kent ana Charles
City shall together elect one Delegate.
3. The othe. House of the General Assembly
shall be called the Senate, and shall consist of thir-
ty-,wo members, of whom thirteen shall be chosen
Tor and by the counties lying West of the Blue Ridge
of mountains, and nineteeafor 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 thirtytwo districts as
here0 after provided Each county the respective
districts at the time of the first election of its Dele
gate Delegates under this Constitution shall vote
for SENATOR and the Sheriffs or other officers
holding the election for cath county, city, town or
borough. within five days at arhest after the last
county. city, town or borough election in the district
shall meet at some convenient place, and from the
polls so taken IN their respective countless cities,
towns or boroughs, return as Senator the person
who shall have the greatest number OF votes in the
whole district. IN hiS hccop
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 elected by the first division shall be displaced
and thcvacancies 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 its number and continued in due
order annually. And for the election of Senators
The counties of Brooke. Ohio and TYLER shall form
one district: the counties of Mononpaa Preston and
Randolph shall form another district the counties of
Harrison, Lewis and Wood, shall form another dis
trct: the counties of Kanawha, Mason Cabell Io
gan and Nicholas, shall form another district: the
counties OF Greenbrer, Monroe, Giles and Mont
gomery, shall form another district the counties of
farewell, Wythe and Grayson, shall form another
district: the counties Of Washington, RUSSELL Scott
and Lee, shall form another district: the counties
ofBerlleley, Morgan and Hampshire shall form anoth.
or districts the counties of Frederick and Jefferson
shall form another district: the counties of Shenan-
doah and Hardy shall form another district: the coun-
IISo vi hOChHiBiIuui anu fcnulctOn snail form
Their district the counties of Augusta g. Rockbridpe
shall form another district: the counties of
Allegheny, Bath, Pocahontas and Bo;etourt shall
form another district: the counties of Loudoun and
Fairfax shall form another district: the counties of
Fauquicr and Prince William shall form another
dlstrlct the counties of Stafford, King George
Wes,noreland, Richmond, Lancaster and Northtm-
serland, shall form another district the counties of
Culpepcr, Madison and Orange, shall form another
district: the counties of Albemare, Nelson and Am
hcrs, shall form another distrct the couIties of Flu
wanna, Goochland, Louisa and Hanover, shall form
another district the counties Of Spotsylvaniu Caro-
line and Essex shall form another districts the coun-
ties of King g. Queen, King William, Gloucester.
Matthews and Mddlesex, shall form another district
the counties of Accomuck, 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 ity 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
counties Of Patrick, Henry and Pittsyvaniu shall
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