Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-08-13

pether elect one delegate; at the second genera
election the County of Ohio shall elect two dele
gates, and the Counties of Brooke and Hancock
Shall elect one delegate; and SO on, alternately, at
succeeding general elections.
AT the first general election the County OF Rus
sci, shall elect two delegates, and the County OF
Tazwell shall elect one delegate: at the secend
general election the County Of Tagwell shall elect
two delegates and the County of Russell shall e.
lect one delegates and so on, alternately, at sue
ceeding geneeai elections.
The General Assembly shall have power upon
application Of majority of the voters OF the Coun-
ty of Campbell 10 provide, that instead OF the two
delegates to be elected by said County the town OF
Iynchbufg shall elect one delegate and the residue
of the County Of Campbell shalt elect one dele
gate. :,
8. The other house of the General Assembly
shall be called the Senate, and shall consist OF fltty
members, to be elected for the term of four years
for the election 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 election of its delegates under
this constitution, shall vote for Senator, and the
Sherfs or other officers holding the election for
each county, city and town, within five days at far
thes after the last election in the district, shall
meet al the Cart House of the county or city first
named in the district, and from the poll so 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 iutp two equal classes, 10 be numbered by
lot. The term of service of the Senators of the first
class expire with that of the delegates first elected
under Ibis constitution and of the Senators Of the
second class at the expiration Of two years hereaf
ter and this alienation shall be continued, so that
one half Of the Senators may be chosen every Sc
cond year.
THE SENATE.-SEorIoN 4TH.
|. For the election of Senators, the counties of
Accomac and Northampton shall form one district:
II. The City of Norfolk shall be another dis
trict:
iii. The counties of Norfolk and Princess Anne
shall form another district;
Nv. The counties Of Isle Of Wight, Nansemond
and Surry shall form another district.
V. The counties Of Sussex, Southampton and
Greensville shall form another district
W. The City Of Petersburg and the County OF
Prince George shall form another district:
VII. The counties Of Dnwiddie, Amelia and
Brunswick shall fUrm another district:
VIII. The counties of Powhatan, Cumberland
and Chesterfield shall form another district.
TX. The counties of Lunenburg, Nolt0way and
Prince Edward shall E,sn another district:
X. The counties of Meckenburg and Charlotte
shall form another district:
XII. The county of Ptlsyvania shall be another
district:
XII. The county of Halifax shall be another dis
trci;
XIII, The counties Of Henry, Patrick and Frank
II. Iict
XIV. The county Of Bedford shall be another
district: -
XIV. The counties Of Campbell and Appomalox
shall form another district:
XVI. The city Of Williamsburg and the coun'
ties Of James City, Charles City, New Kent, York
Elizabeth City and Warwick shall form anuther
district:
XVII. The counties Of Henrico and Hanover
shall form another district;
XVIII The City Of Richmond shall be another
district:
XIX. The counties of Gloucester. Mathews aud
Middlesex shall form another district:
Xxx. The counties of Richmond, Lancaster, Nor
cumberland aud Westmoreland shall form another
district:
XXI. The counties of King and Queen. King
William and Essex shall form another district:
xxi. The counties of Caroline and Spultsylva
MIA shall form another district:
XXlII The counties Of Stafford, King George
and Prince William shall form another district:
XIV. The counties of Fairfax and Alexandria
shall form another district:
XIV. The county of Loudoun shall be anot hel
district:
XVI. The counties Of Fauquier and Kappa
hanock shall firm another district:
XVII. The counties of Madison, Culpeper
Orange and Greeneshall form another district:
XVIII The county Of Albemarle shall be a.
mother district:
xxx. The counties Of Louisa Goochland and
Fluvanna shall form another district:
XXX The counties Of Nelson. Amherst and
Buckingham shall form another district:
| XXI. The counties of Jefferson and berkeley
shall from another district:
! XXXII. The counties of Hampshire, Hardy ant
| Morgan shall form another district:
XXXIII. The counties Of Frederick, Clarke anC
| Warren shall form another district:
XXXlY. The counties of Shenandoah and Page
shall form another district:
XXXV. The counties of Rockingham and Pen
| dleion shall torn another district:
XXXVI. The county of Augusta shall be anoh
er district:
XXXVH The counties of Bath, Highland and
Ruclbridge shall form another district:
XXXVili. The counties of Botetourt, Allegha-
ny, Roanoke and Craig shall folm another dis
! trict.
XXXIX The counties of Carroll, Floyd, Gray
son, Montgomery and Pulaski shall form another
district:
XII. The counties of Mercer. Monroe, Giles
and Tazewell shall form another district:
XII. The counties of Smyth, Wythe and Wash
ington shall form another district:
XIII. The counties Of Scott, Lee and Russell
shall form another district:
XLlli. The Counties Of Boone, Logan, Kama
wha, Putna,n and Wyoming shall form ano,he
district:
XLlV. The counties of Nicholas. Fayete, Pc
cahun,as, Raleigh, Braxton, and Greenbrier shal
form another district:
XIV. The counties of Mason, jackson, Cabell
Wayne and Writ shall form another district:
XLVI The counties Of Richie, Doddridge
Harrison, Pleasants aud Wood shall form anOlhe
district:
XLVII The counties of Wezel, Marshall
Marion and Tyler snail form another district:
XLVIII The counties of Upshur, Barbour
Lewis, Gilmer and Randol pin shall form anuthe
district:
XIX. The counties Of Monongalia, Presto
and Taylor shall form another district:
l.. The counties Of Brooke, Hancock and Obi
shall form another district:
SECTION V.
5. II shall be the duty of the General Assembl
in The year one thousand eight and sixty five, an
in every tenth year thereafter in case i can agre
upon principle of representation, To re apportio
representation in the Senate and House Of Dele
gates in accordance herewith and in the even