Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-31
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Forty-First Day.

THURSDAY, Jan. 30. 1867
Prayer by Rev. R. L. Brooks, member
from Upshur.
The 10th section Of the report of the
Committee on the Legislative Departures ut,
with an amendment giving the Delegate, in
the Gin district the first year TO Raleigh,
the second year 10 Wyoming, the third year
70 Raleigh, the fourth year 10 Wyoming,
and the fifth year to Mcdowell, and so on
in rotation, was adopted.
The appOrtjOnment( which is tue import
ant feature) under this report as adopted,
is briefly as follows:
With a Senate of eighteen members it
DIVIDES the Senate into nine Senatorial dis
tricts, electing two Senators each, with the
following arrangement of districts:
Hancock, Brooke and Chic constitute
the lsti MtFshall, Wetzel and Marion the
I'd; Mqnongalia, Preston and TAYLOR the Sd;
Peasants, Tyler, Richie, Doddridge and
Harrison the 4th: Wood, jackson, Writ,
Roane, Calhoun and Gilmer the 6th: Bar
bour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxlon, Upshur and
Randolph the 9th; Mason, Putnam, Kama
wha, Clay and Nicholas the 9TH; Cabell,
Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Mercer
and Mcdowell the SIN, and Webster, Po-
eahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier and
Monroe the 9th.
With a House of Delegates Of A. mem
bers, the delegates are assigned to the diff
ferent counties as follows:
First, TO the counties not included in
delegate districts, It gives: TO Barbour,
Boone, Braxtou, Brooke, Cabeil, bod
bridge, Fayette, Hancock, jackson, Lewis,
Logan, Mason, Mercer, Putnam, Richie,
Ro4Pe, Taylor. Tyler, Upshur, Wayne,
Wetzel and Writ counties, one Delegate
each
To Harrison, Kanawha, Marion, Marshall
Monongalia and Preston counties, two Dell
egates each.
To Ohio county, three Delegates.
To Grseubrier and Monroe counties to-
I gether, three Delegates, of whom, for the
hrst term, Two shall be residents of Green
brier, and one of Monroe county; and for
/ the second term, two shall be residents OF
Monroe aud one Greenbrier county ; and SO
/ IN rotation.
The Delegate Districts are as follow:
Peasants aud Wood. LIST Delegate
District; Calhoun aud Gilmer, I'd; Clay
and Nicholas, Sd; Webster and Pocahon-
tasr 18th Tucker and Randolph, 9Th +; Nc
| DOwell, Wyoming aud Raleigh, 9th. The
FIRST District two Delegates, and the other
five one each. Those chosen by the FIRST
District shall, for the first term be both
residents OF Wood, and for the third term
one shall be a resident of Wood and the
other of Peasants, aud so in rotation.
The Delegate for the I'd District shall, for
the first term be resident of Gilmer, and
for the second of Calhoun county. That
for the Sd Delegate District, for the FIRST
term, resident of Nicholas, and for the
third of Clay county. That for the 4th
District, for the first two terms, a resident
of Pocahontas, and for the third of Web
/. ster county. That for the 5th District, fol
the first three terms, resident of Ran.
dOlph, and for the fourth of Tucker couu-
". That for the 9th District, for the first
. term, resident of Randolph, for tue sec.
ond Wyoming, third Raleigh, fourth Wyo.
ming, fifth Mcdowell and so in rotation.
} The additional section of Mr.. CALDWELL
was taken up, and that gentleman accept
ed Substitute proposed by Mr.. Van Win
kle IN relation TO same subject viz: au.
thorizing the Legislature to provide by gen.
erlll laws for the creation of corporations.
The section was discussed and amended
so rs to making an exception of banks Of
I circulation. The discussion was iuterrsp.
. ted by some Infringement on the rule
adopted yesterday limiting debate, and
, the remainder of this forenoon was snenl
IN debating motion to extend the time
OF member 10 allow him to sneak longer
than the rule allows.