The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-16
THE CONSTITUTION.
Report or the Com mittee on the Leg
fsIatiye Department
ARTICLE Iy.-LEGIsLATCEE.


|. The legislative power shall be
vested in the Senate sud House OF Del
egates. The style o: their acts shall
be, BE it enacted BY the Legislature OF
IVES, Virginia ,
>. The Senate shall be composed oil
,senty-iour and the House OF Dele
gates Of sixty-fve members, subject to
be increased accoEiiug;o the provisions
hereinafter contained.
3. The term OF office OF Senators shall
be four years and thsI o. Delegates TWO
wears. The Senators first elected shai!
divide themselves into two classes, one
Senator from every district beng as
signed to each class; and OF these classes
the first to be designated by lot 10 such
manner as the Senate may determine,
shall hold their offices for two years,
and the second Tor four years, % that
after the first election one-hslt OF the
Senators shall Be elected b!ennially.
4. For the election OF Senators the
State shall be divided into twelve Sena.
tor.al Districts, which number shall
no, be diminished, but may be increased
as hereinafter provided. Every Dis
t-ict shall choose TWO Senator'S. but both
shall no, be chosen from the same
county. The districts shall be equal as
nearly a. practicable in population, &C
cording 10 the returns Of the United
States census. They shall be compact.
formed Of cont guous territory, AID
bounded by county lines. After ever!
such census the Legislature shall alter
the Senatorial Districts, 80 lar 81 may
be necessary 70 make them conform 10
the foregoing provisions.
). Any Senatorial! district NAV a. any
time be divided, by county liues or
otherwise, into two sections, which
shall be equal SIS nearly as practicable
IN population. I: such division be
made. each section shall cleo! one Of
the Senators for the distr.cI, aud the
Senator SO elected shall be classified 10
such manner as the Senate may DE-.
ierm:ne
5. Until the Senatorial Districts are
altered by the legislature alter the next
census. the counties OF Hancock, Brooke
s.t OIi5 AL constitute the S-st Sen
a:o..a! District, MARSHALL. We.ze, aud
Marion the second: Richie, Doiir.dge,
Harrison, Gilmer and Calhoun the ,hi-i
TYLER, Pleasaats, Wool and Writ the
;ou.:h. jackson, Mason, Putnam ani
Roane the fifth, kaaawaa, Clay. Mich.
o,as and Bra1ton the sixth Cabe)l,
Wavue, Lincoln. Boone. Logan, Wyo-
m.ns, Mcdowell and Mercer toe sev,
euch. Monroe, Greeubrer. Summers,
Pocal ortAs, Webster, Fayette and
Raleigh the eighth; Lewis, Randolph,
Cvshu., Barbour, TAYLOR aud Tucker
the ninth Preston ami Monongalis the
tenth Ham pshire, Mineral, HsriE.
Grant and Pendletou the eleventh;
Berkeley. Morgan AMI Jefferson the
twelfth
:. After every census the delegates
shall lie appoE;ionei as follows: The
ratio OF representation for toe House o.
Delegates shall be ascer:ainei by dlvId-
ing the whole population o. the State
~ the number OF which the House !
- consist, and rejecting the fraction OF
unii, il any, resulting from sucn ii.
vision. DIVIDING the population o.
every delegate district aud OF every
county not included in a delegate dis
irict, By the ratio thus a=certs'nei, there
shall be assigned to eacn number o:
delegates e4ua! 10 the quo,ient obtained
by this division, excluding the fractional
remainder. The additional delegates
necessary 10 make up the number o.
which the House Is 10 consist shall then
be ass; .ned 10 those delegate districts
and counties no; included in 8 delegate
district. which would otherwise have tue
, largest fractions unrepre-entei, tUt
every delegate district, aud county Mt
included il q delegate district, shall &c
entitled to at least one delegate.
;. Until a new apPoriioumeut Is De
cla,el. the counties Of Peasants ard
/ VOID shall form the first delegate dis
I-ict. sud elect three delegates, Richie
and Calhoun the second, AMI choose two
delegates; Barbour and Tay.or the
third, and choose one delegate; IA
nawha and Clay the :our'h, and choose
three delegates; Randolph aud Tucker
the nth, and choose one delegate; Po-
caho1ias AMI Webster the sixth. and
choose one delegate; Mcdowell and
Wyoming the seventh, and shall choose
one delegate.
9 Until q new apportionment ;s
declared, the superintendent OF delegates
TO the counties not included 10 Delegate
Districts. eIcep, Barbour and Taylor
count e., shall be IS follows
To Barbour, Boone. B-axion. Brooke.
Cabell, Doidridge, Fayette, HAMPSHIRE,
Hancock, Jackson, Lewis, Logan,
Greeubrier, Monroe, Mercer. Mineral,
MoEgsn, Grant, Hardy, L'ucolO, Penile-
too, Putnam, Roane, G.lmsr, Taylor,
TYLER, Cpshur, Wayne. Wetzsl, Witt.
Nicholas, Summers and Raleigh coau-
ties, one Delegate each.
To Berkeley, Harrison, Jefferson,
Marion, Marshall. Mason, Monongalia
snd Prestos counties, two Delegates
each.
10 ONO county, iour Delegates.
10. The arrangement OF the Seaa-
torial and Delegate Districts and ap
poytoumen, Of Delegates shall hereafter
De declared BY law as soon as possible
ate, each succeeding census taken by
authority OF the United States When
/ So declared they shall spply to the first
general election for members OF the
/ Legislature TO be thereafter held, and
shall continue in force unchanged until
such districts are altered and delegates
are apportioned under the succeeding
census.
| II. Additional territory may be ad-
mi!ted into aud become part OF this
State with the consent Of the Legisla.