Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-02

lie danger; 10 WORK upon e pubic roadS, or 10 aleu
any court az sutor juror or winess and no voter she
be subject to arrest under any civil process during his
attendance at elections, or in going to and returning
from them.
4. In all elections votes shall be given openly or viUa
uoce, and not by ballot But dumb persons entitled to
suffrage, may vote by ballot.
ARTICLE W.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
l. The legislature shall be formed of two distinct
branches which together shall be com1lefe Legsla-
ture, and shall be called the General Assembly Of Vir
ginia
House Of Delegates.
2. One OF these shall be called the House OF Dele
gates and shall consist oil one hundred and ftty-two
members, to be chosen bienniay Tor and by the
raj counties, cities and towns of the Commonwealth,
and distributed and apportioned as follows:
The counties OF Augusta and Rockingham and the
city OF Richmond she'll each elect three delegates
The counties OF Aibemaia, Bedford, Berkeley, Camp
bell, Fauquier Franklin, Frederick, Halifax, Hamp
shire, Harrison, Jefferson, kanawha, Loudoun, Ma
ran, Monongaia, Monroe, Norfolk, Piltsylvania Pres
ton. Rockbrdge, Shenandoah and Washington shall
each elect two delegates;
The counties of Bgtetouft aud Craig shall together
elect two delegates;
The counties of Accomac, alexandria, Amherst,
Appomattox, Barbour, Brunswick, Buckingham, Ca
BELL Caroline, Carroll, Charlotte Chesterfield, Clarke
Culpeper, Dnwiddie, Fairfax, FLOYD, Fuvanna, Giles
Gloucester Goochland, Gravson Greenbrier, Hanover
Hardy, Henrico, Henry, Highland, Isle of Wight,
Jackson, King William, Lee, Lewis, Louisa, Lunen-
burg, Madison, Marshall, Mason, Mercer, Meek len
burg, Montgomery, Morgan Nansemond Nelson
Northampton, Page Patrick, Peadleton, pocahontas,
laslli, Putnam, Randolph, Rappahannoek, Roanoke,
Scott, SmyI, Southampton, Spottsylvania, Taylor,
Upshur Warren, Wayne, Wetzel, Wood and Wythe,
and the cities of Norfolk and Petersburg shall each
elect one delegate.
The counties Of Lee and Scott, in addition to the
delegate be elected by each shall together elect
delegate
The following counties and cities shall compose
election districts: Allegheny and Bath Amelia and
Nottoway: Boone, Logan and Wyoming: Braxton and
Nicholas Charles City, James City and New Kent
Elizabeth City, Warwick, York and the city of w il
ismsbure: Essex and King Queen: Fayette and al
egh: Gmer and Wiri: Green and Orange: Greensville
and Sussex: King George and Stafford Lancaster aud
Northumberland: Mathews and MddIesex Pleasants
and Richie: Prince George and Surry: and Richmond
and Westmoreland; each of which district shall elect
one delegate
AT the FIRST general election under this Constitution
the County OF Ohio shall elect three delegates, and the
Counties of Brooke and Hancock shall together elect one
delegate; at the second general election the County OF
Ohio shall elect two delegates and The Counties of Brooke
and Hancock shall each elect one delegate, and on,
alternately at succeeding general elections
At the first general election the County Of Russell
shall elect two delegates, and The County of Taze wei
shall elect delegates at the second general election
the County of razewell shall elect delegates and
the County of Russell snail elect one delegate; and so
on, alternately, at succeeding genera elections.
The General Assembly shall have power upon APP
plcaiion OF majority of the voters of the County OF
Campbell to provide that instead of the two delegates
to be elected by said County, the town Of Lynchburg
shall elect on delegate and the residue OF the County
of Campbell shall elect one delegate.
Senate.
3 The other house Of the General Assembly shall be
called the Senate; and shall consist OF nifty members,
to be elected for the term Of four years. for the cleo
ton OF whom, the counties, cities and towns shall be
divided into fifty districts. Each county, city and town
of the respective districts at the time of the first cleo
ton Of its delegate or delegates under this Consu
shall he GhprJs
other officers holding the election for each county city
and town. within five days farthest after the last cleo
ton in the district shall meet at the Court House OF the
county city first named IN tine district and from the
polls taken in their respective counties, cities and
towns return as Senator the person who has received
the greatest number of votes in the whole district
Upon the assembling OF the Senators so elected they
shall be divided into two equal classes, be numbered
by lot The term OF service OF the Senators of the
first class shall expire with that of the delegates first
elected under this Constitution; and OF the Senators of
the second class at the expiration of two years there
after: and this alienation shall be continued SO that
half OF the Senators may be chosen every second
year.
a. l. For the election of Senator's the counties of
Accorpack and Northampton shall form one district:
II. The City Of Norfolk shall be another district:
III. The counties of Norfolk and Princess Anne shall
form another district:
". The counties OF Isle OF Wight, Nanssnond and
Surry shall form another district:
V. The counties of Sussex, Southampton and
Greensville shall form another district:
George shall tom an other district:
VII. The counties OF Dinwidde, Amelia and
Brunswick shall form another distinct:
The ties of Powhatan, Cumberland and
Chesterfield shall form another district:
TX. The counties OF Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince
Edward shall form another district:
x. The counties of Mecklenburg and Charlotte shall
form another district:
XII. The county Of Pittsylyania shall be another dis
trict:
XII. The county OF Halifax shall be another lis
trict
XIII. The counties of Henry, Patrick and Franklin
shall form another district
XIV. The county OF Bedford shall be another dis
trict:
XIV. The counties of Campbell aud Appomattox
shall form another district
The City of Williamsburg, and the counties of
James City, Charles City, New Kent, ork, Elizabeth
City, and Warwick shall former another district:
The counties of Henrco and Hanover shall
form another district:
XVIII. The City Of Richmond shall be another dis
trict
XIX. The counties of Gloucester, Mathews and Mid
dlesex shall form another district:
Xxx. The counties of r Richmond, Lancaster, North
cumberland and Westnoreland shall torn another dis
trict
XXI. The counties Of King and Queen, King Will
liam aud Essex shall form another district:
xxi. The counties of Caroline and Spotsyvania
shall form another district:
XIII. The counties OF Stafford, hlng George and
Prince William shall form another district
XIV. The counties of Fairfax and Alexandria shall
form another district:
XIV. The county ofLoudoun shall be another dis
trct:
XVI. The counties Of Fauquier and Rappahannock
shall form another district:
XVII. The counties Of Madison, Culpeper Orange
and Greene shall form another district:
xviii. The county of AlbelnarIe shall be another
district:
xxx. The counties of LOUISA, Goochland and Flu
wanna shall form another district
xxx. The counties of Nelson, Amherst and Buck
ingham shall form another district:
XXI The counties of Jefferson and Berkeley shall
from another district:
xxxII. The counties of Hampshire, Hardy and M or
gan shall form another district:
xxxIu. The counties OF Frederick, Clarke and War
rem shall form another district
xx1Iv. The counties of Shenandoah and Page shall
oIm another district:
xxxv. The counties of Rockingham and Pandeton
shall form another district:
xxxvI. The county OF Augusta shall be another dis