Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-04

Bill OF the Hon. ". G. Brown, Repre-
tentative OF this District for the ad-
mission OF the new StRte--OHeEed In
the House on June Z6th.
HHEKE1s the people inbabi.ing that poE-
tIou of Virginia knoSn a. West Viz
ginia did, By conEention assembled 81
Wheeling on the ;EentY-siIIh Of SoTetn-
Der, eighteen busdred sod sixty one.
frame for themselves constitution, With
TiE1 of becoming a separate and in
dependent State aad whereas at gen
ersI election held in tie Counties com
posing the territory aforesaid On the third
day of May last the said constitution MAS
approved and adopted 10y toe qualified
voters of the proposed State and Ebere-
As the legislature Of Virginia, By al set
passed on the tbirteeaIb day of Yay,
eigbteAa hnpdred aud siIIy-tsEo, did
gre It's consent to tie formation of new
State within TIE Jurisdiction of the said
State Of VitgihiE,t 10 be known by the name
of West Virginia, end TO embrace the
following named counties, 20 vii: Haa-
cock, Brooke, Ohio, NsrshalI, EetzeI.
Marion, Nonsngalia, Preston, Taylor,
Tyler, P1easauts, Richie, D0ddridgs,
Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Win. Roaae,
Calhoun, GiImer, Barbour, Tucker, Lew
Is, BraItou, Upshur, Randolph, NAsou,
Putnam, RanaWha, Clay, GIcE0ies, Ca
bell, Wayne. Boone. Logan, Wyoming.
Mercer, Mcdowell, Webster, PocahontRs,
Il FaYette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, Monroe,
Pendietou, Hardy. Hamghire, and Nor
gan; and whereas both the convention
nnd legislature Aforesaid, expressed 4
Etroag desire that the new S;ate should
be admitted INFO the Uniun, aud the con-
stitution, Aforesaid, being republican 10
form, Congress doth hereby consent that
the said forty-eight counties may be
formed into a separate and independent
State: Therefore
Be ii enacted 5y the Senate and Hsuis of
Of tie United !Stqles of .4Hser-
lea IN congreys attta6Led, T6at the STATE of
West Virginia be, and is hereby declared
TO be one of the United States OF Amerlea.
and admitted into the Union on an equal
looting With the original States IA all re-
speets whatever, and that all the laws of
the United States not locally fnApplieabIe
shall have the force and effect ia the said
State of West Virginia az elsewhere with.
in. the United States.
SIC. 2. A1d Be 4 fttFthsf eaaeaed, That,
until the next general census, the said State /
81 West Virginia shall be entitled 70 three
members in the House of Representatives
81 the United States Pf0rided aIie sys,
That this act shall not take effect until after
he proclamation ofthe President Of the Uni
ed States hereinafter provided for. II being
represented 10 Congress that since the con-
Iention Of twenty sixth of November eigh-
zen hundred and sixty that framed and
proposed the constitution for the said State
If West Virgins, the people thereof hare ex-
PRESSED a wish to change the seventh section
II the eleventh article Of said constitution
y striking ont the same, and inserting the
in its place, viz: aHo person
,orn within the limits of this State after
he fourth day of March, eighteen hundred
nd sixty-three, shall ever be held IS a
lave; nor shall slaves be permitted 70
ome into the State for permanent resi-
lenee therein Therefore-
SIC. 3. Bel further enacted, That when
yer the people of West Virginia shall,
trough their said convention, and BY 4
'ote to be taken at an election 70 be b cid |
Within the limits of the State at such time |
{ The convention may provide, make and |
atty the change aforesaid aud properly |
Gritty the same under the hand of The pres |
dent Of the convention, It shaIl be lawful /
Or the President of the United States 70 |
ssae his proclamation stating the fact. 1
nd thereupOn this act shall take effect aud !
Q IN force from and after sixty days from 4
be date Of said proclamation.
PEEszIcE says two great geographical