Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-15
VIRGINIA CONVENTION.
ApJouRSED sEss1oN-EIeHTH DAY.
WEDNESDAY, August IA, 1861.

Mr.. VAN WINKLE moved that the reslg-
nation of Lot Bowen. of Harrison, which
was yesterday laid upon the table, be no"
taken up and accepted.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr.. BRowN, flom the Committee on Gre
dentials, then reported upon the creuen-
tials of Charles S. Lewis, OF HARRISON I
elected to fill the vacancy occasioneo Dy
Mr.. Bowen's resignation, that Mr.. Lewis
was entitled to seat in the convention
The report was adopted.
Mr.. LEWIS went forward and the oath OF
office was administered to him,
Mr.. VAN WINKLE reported, from the
Committee on Business, an ordinance III
relation 10 Juries, which was laid upon
the table and ordered to be printed.
lie also, from the same committee, re-
ported back the ordinance recOnmitted to
Them, declaring in what cases offices are
vacated, with an adverse recommendation
on the amendment offered by the gentle
man from Ohio.
lie also reported adversely on the reso-
luton offered by i member from Marion
inquiring into the expedicncy of amending
or repeating the ordinance of the ConVen-
ton creating the Governors Council.
The report was adopted.
The order of the day coming up,
Mr.. Burnley asked and obtained leave TO
withdraw his substitute for the report OF
| the Committee.
! The question was announced to be on
I the following substitute offered by Mr..
| Fhrnsworth.
SUBSTITUTE OF MR.. FARNswoRTH FOR REPORT
OF COMMITTEE on DIVISION OF THE STATE.
WHEREAS. in the opinion of the good
people of Western Virginia, the long con-
! tinued inequality of taxation and repre-
sentation, as we'll as the diversity of inter-
est between Eastern and Western Virginia
| render separation or division of the State
necessary.
And whereas, the people of the Eastern,
part of the State have endeavored to throw
off their allegiance to the Federal Govern
ment and place the State in an attitude oil
rebellion against it, contrary to the wishes
and without the consent of the people OF
Northwestern Virginia.
And whereas, all the material interests
of this section of the State are closely
identified with the Union and its preserva-
ton, and can only be secured and protect
ed by sevcring the unnatural ties that bind
us to our Eastern brethren, now in rebel
lion; therefore,
Be it ordained by the people ofNirginin,
through their delegate in Convention as
| sembled, that a new State, to be called the
State oe be organized and
erected out of the counties comprised in
the boundaries following. viz: Beginning
on the Tug Fork of Sandy River, on the
Kentucky line, where the counties of Blu
chanan and Logan join the same! aud
from thence running with the dividing line
of snid counties and the dividing line OF
the counties of Wyoming and Mcdowell to
the great Flat Top Mountain, and with the
dividing lines of the counties OF Raleigh
and Mercer, Fayette, Nicholas and Green
bricr, Webster and Pocahontas, Randolph,
Pocahontus, Pendleton and Highland, to
the Shenandoah Mountains, and with said
Mountains, following the dividing lines be-
tween the counties of Pendlcton and Rock
ingham, Hardy and Shenandoah, Hamshire
aud Frederick, Morgan and Frederick.
Berkeley and Frederick, Jefferson and
Clarke and Jefferson and LOudon to the
Maryland line, and such other counties as
lie contiguous to and adjoin the counties
embraced in the boundaries aforesaid as
shall by vote Of the qualified voters resi-
ding within The same declare desire to be
attached TO and form IL part of said State,
and the Legislature may so change the
boundary lines, as herein set forth, as to
include said counties, provided the vote be
taken on the same day as hereinafter fixed
for taking the sense of the voters within
the counties embraced in the boundaries
first herein mentioned.
. That the present Constitution of Yir-
ginia, with such alterations as the exigen-
ces of the times demand, be submitted to
the people for their ratification orrcjcc-
ton at the polls on the first Thursday in
ovembcr next.
3. The voters within the boundaries
aforesaid, and within the counties that lie
contiguous thereto, shall assemble ut their
respective places of holding elections on
the said first Thursday of November next,
and cast their votes for or against the for
nation of new State, as well as for or
against the adoption of the Constitution
framed and proposed to them by this Con-
vention. 1t shall be the duty of the COM
missioners who superintendent, and the of
ficers who conducted the election at the
general election in May last, to attend their
respective places of holding elections and
superntend and conduct the election herein
provided for. And if said commissioners
and officers shall fail to attend at amy such
place of holding elections, it shall be law
full for any two freeholders present to act
as commissioners in experimenting said
election, and to appoint officers to conduct
said election. 1t. shall he the duty of such
persons experimenting and conducting
said election to employ clerks to record
the Votes and furnish poll-books for the
purpose, and to endorse on the respective
poll books the expenses of the same.
If on the day herein provided for hold
ing said election there shall be in any o
the said counties any military force or any
hostile assemblage of persons, 40 as to III.
tertere with a free and full expression o
the will of the voters, they may assemble
at any other place within their precinc
and hold an election as herein provided
for,
There shall be two poll-books. Que o
said poll-books shall contain two columns
--one column shall be headed "For new