The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-03-07
COMPLETE BILL -,
FOR RE-DISTRICTING
With Exception Of Seventh and
Thirteenth Every Other District
u Changed in Composition or
Numerical Designation.
House Measure.
r ICH M on Nd, vA-Special.-

elections. brought into the House to-
day the first complete draft of the
State senatorial redistricting bill
which the delegates have had an op-
portunity to read, all other copies be-
fng In the form OF rough notes
The new plan, which was agreed
10 by the House yesterday, alters in
composition or number every sena-
korial district in the State with the ex-
ception OF the Seventh and the Thir-
feenth.
A bill is no-y in the Senate, how
ever, which leaves all lines as they
now exist. This means either a Bit
terly contested conference or dead
lock.
What House Recommends.
Following is the House recon-
mendation as to the new districts, the
flrst so far printed:
The counties Of Lee, Scott and Wise
shall form the First District.
The counties of Buchanan. Dicken-
son. Russell and Tazewell shall form
the Second District.
The counties OF Washington and
Emyth and the city of Bristol shall
form the Third District.
The COunl - of Giles. Bland, Pu-
laski and Wythe shall form the Fourth
District.
The counties Of Carroll. Grayson
and Patrick shall form the Fifth Dis
trict
The counties of Roanoke and Mont
gomery and the cities of Roanoke,
Salen and RadfOrd shall form the
Sixth District.
The counties of Craig Botetourt.
Allegheny and Bath and the city of
Clifton Forge shall form the Seventh
District.
"a, counties of Augusta and High
land and the city of stanton shall
form the Eighth District.
The county of Rockingham shall
form the Ninth District.
The counties of Shenandoah. Fred
erick. Clarke and Warren and the
city Of Winchester shall form the
Tenth District
The counties of Fauquier. Loudoun
and Rappahannock shall form the
Eleventh District
The counties of Fairfax, Alexandria
and Prince William and the city of
Alexandria shall form the Twelfth
District
The counties of spotsylvania. Lou
isa and Stafford and the city of Fred
ericksburg shall form the Thirteenth
District
The counties of Culpeper. Madison.
Page and Orange shall form the Four
teenth District
The counties OF Albemarle and
Greene and the city OF Charlottesville
shall form the Fifteenth District
The counties OF Amherst and Mel
son shall form the Sixteenth District.
The counties OF Bedford and Rock
bridge and the city of Buena Vista
shall form the Seventeenth District.
The counties of Franklin and Pat
rick shall form the Eighteenth Dis
trict-
The counties of Henry and Pittsyl-
rania and the city of Danville shall
<orm the Nineteenth District.
The county Of Pittsylvania and the
city of Danville shall form the TWEEN
tieth District
The county of Campbell and the
city OF Lynchburg shall form the
Twenty-first District.
The counties of Halifax and Char
lotte shall form the Twenty-secOnd
District.
The counties of Mecklenburg and
Brunswick shall form the Twenty
The counties OF Nottoway, Amelia,
Lunenburg and Prince Edward shall
form the Twenty-fourth District.
The counties OF Appomattox. Buck
ingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna and
Powhatan shall form the Twenty-fifth
{ District.
twenty sixth District and shall have
TSpe county of Chesterfield and the
city 01 Richmond shall form the Twen-
ty-seventh District.
The county of Dinwiddie and the city
OF Petersburg shall form the Twenty
The count,es Of Greensville. Sussex.
Surry and Prisce George shall form the
The counties Ga Isle OF Wight. South
ampton and Nansenond and the city OF
Sunolk shall form he Thirtieth Dis
trict -
The city of Norfolk shall form the
Thirty-tirst District. ~5..
The county of Norfolk shall Srm the
Thirty-second District.
The county OF Princess Anne and the
city Of Portsmouth shall form the
Thirty-third District.
The counties of Accomac and North
hampton shall form the Thirtyfourth
The counties OF Elizabeth City, War
wick. York and the cities of Newport
News and Hampton shall form the
The counties OF Goochland, Henrico.
New Kent. Charles City. James City
the Thirty-sixth District.
The counties of King and Queen.
M Midd6iSseN: !, Essex. Gl9p on. and 1S
District
The counties of King George. West
Northumberland shall form the Thirty
The counties of Caroline. Hanover
and King M.lliam shall form the
Thirty ninth District.
Present Senate Districts.
The present districts and their re-
spectiye senator's are as follows:
Washington, Smyth and city Of
Brzstol-David Campbell Cummings.
Scott. Lee and Wise-John H. Ca
tron.
Buchanan, Dickinson, Russell and
Tazewell-J. Powell Royal.
Roanoke, Montgomery and cities of
Roanoke and Salem. M. Hart.
Giles, Bland, Pulaski and Wythe--
DR.. A. G. Crockett
Carroll. Grayson and Patrick-Ed-
mund Parr.
Craig. Botetourt, Allegheny, Bath
and city of Clifton Forge-W. A.
Rinehart.
RocEingham-John Paul
Augusta, Highland and city OF
Staunton-Edward Echols.
Shenandoah. Frederick and city of
Winchester. S. Tavenner.
Fauquier and Loudoun-George La
than Fletcher.
Clarke. Page and Warren-R. S.
Blackburn Smith.
Spotsylvania, Stafford Louisa and
city Of Overwhelmingly. G. /. Mon
cure.
Alexandria, Prince william, Fair
fax and city of Alexandria-R. e.
Thornton.
culpeper. Madison. Rappahannock