The Counties of Lee and Scott in addition to the delegate to be elected by each, shall together elect one delegate.

The following counties and cities shall compose election districts: Alleghany and Bath: Amelia and Nottoway: Logan, Boone and Wyoming Braxton and Nicholas : Charles City, James City and New Kent: Cumberland and Powhatan: Doddridge and Tyler: Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, and the City of Williamsburg: Essex, and King and Queen: Fayette and Raleigh: Gilmer and Wirt, Greene and Orange: Greenesville and Sussex: King George and Stafford Lancaster and Northumberland: Matthews and Middlesex Pleasants and Ritchie: Prince George and Surry: and Richmond and Westmoreland: each of which districts shall elect one delegate.

At the first general election under this Constitution the County of Ohio shall elect three delegates, and the Counties of Brooke and Hancock shall together elect one delegate; at the second general election the County of Ohio shall elect two delegates and the Counties of Brooke and Hancock shall each elect one delegate; and so on, alternately, at succeeding general elections.

At the first general election the County of Russell shall elect two delegates, and the County of Tazewell shall elect one delegate; at the second general election the County of Tazewell shall elect two delegates and the County of Russell shall elect one delegate; and so on, alternately, at succeeding general elections.

The General Assembly shall have power upon application of a majority of the voters of the County of Campbell to provide, that instead of the two delegates to be elected by said County, the town of Lynchburgh shall elect one delegate and the residue of the County of Campbell shall elect one delegate.

3. The other house of the General Assembly shall be called the Senate, and shall consist of fifty members, to be elected for the term of four years; for the election of whom, the counties, cities, and towns shall be divided into fifty districts. Each county, city, and town of the respective districts, at the time of the first election of its delegate or delegates under this Constitution, shall vote for one Senator, and the Sheriffs or other officers holding the election for each county, city, and town, within five days at farthest after the last elec tion in the district, shall meet at the Court House of the county or city first named in the district, and from the polls so taken in their respective counties, cities, and towns, return as Senator the person who has received the greatest number of votes in the whole district. Upon the assembling of the Senators so elected, they shall be divided into two equal classes, to be numbered by lot. The term of service of the Senators of the first class shall expire with that of the delegates first elected under this Constitution; and of the Senators of the second class at the expiration of two years thereafter: and this alternation shall be continued, so that one half of the Senators may be chosen every second year.

SECTION IV.-THE SENATE.

1. For the election of Senators, the counties of Accomac and Northampton shall form one district:

II. The City of Norfolk shall be another district:

III. The counties of Norfolk and Princess Anne shall form another district:

IV. The counties of Isle of Wight, Nansemond, and Surry, shall form another district :

v. The counties of Sussex, Southampton, and Greenesville, shall form another district :

VI. The City of Petersburg and the County of Prince George shall form another district:

VII. The counties of Dinwiddie, Amelia, and Brunswick, shall form another district:

VIII. The counties of Powhatan, Cumberland, and Chesterfield, shall form another district:

IX. The counties of Lunenburg, Nottoway, and Prince Edward, shall form another district :

x. The counties of Mecklenburg and Charlotte shall form another district:

XI. The county of Pittsylvania shall be another district :

XII. The county of Halifax shall be another district:

XIII. The counties of Henry, Patrick, and Franklin, shall form another district.

XIV. The county of Bedford shall be another district:

xv. The counties of Campbell and Appomattox shall form another district:

XVI. The City of Williamsburg, and the counties of James City, Charles City, New Kent, York, Elizabeth City, and Warwick, shall form another district :

XVII. The counties of Henrico and Hanover shall form another district:

XVIII. The City of Richmond shall be another district:

XIX. The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, and Middlesex, shall form another district:

xx. The counties of Richmond, Lancaster, Northumberland and Westmoreland shall form another district :

XXI. The counties of King and Queen, King William and Essex, shall form another district:

XXII. The counties of Caroline and Spottsylvania shall form another district:

XXIII. The counties of Stafford, King George, and Prince William, shall form another district :

XXIV. The counties of Fairfax and Alexandria shall form another district:

xxv. The county of Loudoun shall be another district:

XXVI. The counties of Fauquier and Rappahannock shall form another district :

XXVII. The counties of Madison, Culpeper, Orange, and Greene, shall form another district:

XXVIII. The county of Albermarle shall be another district:

XXIX. The counties of Louisa, Goochland, and Fluvanna, shall form another district:

xxx. The counties of Nelson, Amherst, and Buckingham, shall form another district:

XXXI. The counties of Jefferson and Berkeley shall form another district:

XXXII. The counties of Hampshire, Hardy, and Morgan, shall form another district:

XXXIII. The counties of Frederick, Clarke, and Warren, shall form another district:

XXXIV. The counties of Shenandoah and Page shall form another district:

XXXV. The counties of Rockingham and Pendleton shall form another district:

XXXVI. The county of Augusta shall be another district:

XXXVII. The counties of Bath, Highland, and Roekbridge, shall form another district:

XXXVIII. The counties of Botetourt, Alleghany, Roanoke, and Craig, shall form another district:

XXXIX. The counties of Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Montgomery, and Pulaski, shall form another district:

XL. The counties of Mercer, Monroe, Giles, and Tazewell, shall form another district:

XLI. The counties of Smyth, Wythe, and Washington, shall form another district:

XLII. The counties of Scott, Lee, and Russell, shall form another district :

XLIII. The counties of Boone, Logan, Kanawha, Putnam, and Wyoming, shall form another district :

XLIV. The counties of Nicholas, Fayette, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Braxton, and Greenbrier, shall form another district:

XLV. The counties of Mason, Jackson, Cabell, Wayne, and Wirt, shall form another district:

XLVI. The counties of Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, and Wood, shall form another district:

XLVII. The counties of Wetzel, Marshall, Marion, and Tyler, shall form another district:

XLVIII. The counties of Upshur, Barbour, Lewis, Gilmer, and Randolph, shall form another district:

XLIX. The counties of Monongalia, Preston, and Taylor, shall form another district:

L. The counties of Brooke, Hancock and Ohio shall form another district.

SECTION V.

5. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and in every tenth year thereafter, in case it can agree upon a principle of representation, to re-apportion representation in the Senate and House of Delegates in accordance therewith; and in the event the General Assembly, at the first or any subsequent period of re-apportionment, shall fail to agree upon a principle of representation and to re-apportion representation in accordance therewith, each House shall separately propose a scheme of representation, containing a principle or rule for the House of Delegates, in connection with a principle or rule for the Senate. And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly, at the same session, to certify to the Governor, the principles or rules of representation which the respective Houses may separately propose, to be applied in making re-apportionments in the Senate and in the House of Delegates: and the Governor shall, as soon thereafter as may be, by proclamation, make known the propositions of the respective Houses, and require the voters of the Commonwealth to assemble at such time as he shall appoint, at their lawful places of voting, and decide by their votes between the propositions thus presented. In the event the General Assembly shall fail, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, or in any tenth year thereafter to make such re-apportionment or certificate, the Governor shall, immediately after the adjournment of the General Assembly, by proclamation, require the voters of the Commonwealth to assemble, at such time as he shall appoint, at their lawful places of voting, and to declare by their votes:

First, whether representation in the Senate and House of Delegates shall be apportioned on the "Suffrage Basis;" that is, according to the number of voters in the several counties, cities, towns and Senatorial districts of the Commonwealth:

Or second, whether representation in both Houses shall be apportioned on the "Mixed Basis;" that is, according to the number of white inhabitants contained, and the amount of all State taxes paid, in the several counties, cities and towns of the Commonwealth, deducting therefrom all taxes paid on licenses and law process, and any capitation tax on free negroes, allowing one delegate for every seventy-sixth part of said inhabitants, and one delegate for every seventysixth part of said taxes, and distributing the Senators in like man

ner:

Or third, whether representation shall be apportioned in the Senate on taxation; that is, according to the amount of all State taxes, paid in the several counties, cities and towns of the Commonwealth, deducting therefrom all taxes paid on licenses and law process, and any capitation tax on free negroes, and in the House of Delegates on the "Suffrage Basis" as aforesaid:

Or fourth, whether representation shall be apportioned in the Sen

ate on the "Mixed Basis" as aforesaid, and in the House of Delegates on the "Suffrage Basis" as aforesaid: and each voter shall cast his vote in favor of one of said schemes of apportionment, and no

more.

6. It shall be the duty of the Sheriffs and other officers taking said polls, to keep the same open for the period of three days, and within five days after they are closed, to certify true copies thereof to the Governor, who shall, as early as may be, ascertain the result of said vote, and make proclamation thereof; and in case it is ascertained that a majority of all the votes cast is in favor of either of the principles of representation, referred as aforesaid to the choice of the voters, the governor shall communicate the result of such vote to the general assembly at its first regular session thereafter; but in case it is ascertained that a majority of all the votes cast is not in favor of either of the principles of representation referred as aforesaid to the choice of the voters, it shall be the duty of the governor, as soon as may be after ascertaining that fact, in like manner to cause the voters to decide between the two principles of representation which shall, at such previous voting, have received the greatest number of votes; and he shall ascertain and make proclamation of the result of the said last vote, and communicate the same to the general assembly at its next regular session; and in either case, the General Assembly, at the regular session thereof which shall be held next after the taking of the vote, the result of which shall have been so communicated to it by the Governor, shall re-apportion representation in the two houses respectively in accordance with the principle of representation in each, for which a majority of the votes cast were given; and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly in every tenth year thereafter to re-apportion and distribute the number of senators and delegates in accordance with the same principle. 7. Any person may be elected Senator, who, at the time of election, has attained the age of twenty-five years, and is actually a resident within the district, and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, according to this Constitution. And any person may be elected a member of the House of the Delegates, who, at the time of election, has attained the age of twenty-one years, and is actually a resident within the county, city, town, or election district, qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, according to this Constitution; but no person holding a lucrative office, no minister of the gospel or priest of any religious denomination, no salaried officer of any banking corporation or company, and no attorney for the Commonwealth, shall be capable of being elected a member of either house of Assembly. The removal of any person elected to either branch of the General Assembly from the county, city, town or district for which he was elected, shall vacate his office.

8. The General Assembly shall meet once in every two years, and not oftener, unless convened by the Governor in the manner prescribed in this Constitution. No session of the General Assembly,