The counties of Pleasants, Wood, Wirt and Ritchie -third. shall constitute the Third Senatorial District. The counties of Mason, Jackson and Roane shall -fourth. constitute the Fourth Senatorial District. The counties of Cabell, Lincoln and Putnam shall-fifth. constitute the Fifth Senatorial District. The counties of Wayne, Mingo, McDowell and Wy--sixth. oming shall constitute the Sixth Senatorial District. The counties of Raleigh, Mercer, Summers and -seventh. Monroe shall constitute the Seventh Senatorial District. The counties of Kanawha, Boone and Logan shall --eighth. constitute the Eighth Senatorial District. The counties of Fayette, Greenbrier, Nicholas and -ninth. Clay shall constitute the Ninth Senatorial District. The counties of Calhoun, Gilmer, Braxton, Web- -tenth. ster and Pocahontas shall constitute the Tenth Senatorial District. The counties of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor-eleventh. shall constitute the Eleventh Senatorial District. The counties of Doddridge, Harrison and Lewis-twelfth. shall constitute the Twelfth Senatorial District. The counties of Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and thirteenth. Pendleton shall constitute the Thirteenth Senatorial District. The counties of Preston, Tucker, Grant, Hardy and -fourteenth. Mineral shall constitute the Fourteenth Senatorial District. The counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan and fifteenth. Hampshire shall constitute the Fifteenth Senatorial District. has two sena ators. -one senator elected in each 1902. And each of said districts shall have two (2) Sen-each district ators. The Senators elected at the last general elec- tors. tion for the full term of four years, shall continue to present senhold their seats for the term for which they were elected. And each of said Senatorial Districts shall at the next general election to be held on the Tues- district in day next after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and two, elect one Senator, and bi-en. nially thereafter one Senator shall be elected from each of said districts, except as follows: At the said general election to be held in the year nineteen hun- -exception as dred and two, there shall be elected two Senators in to 3rd district the Third District, one of whom shall hold his seat for the term of two years and the other for the term of four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially determined. thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said -terms; how to 7th district determined. district; and at said general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and two there shall be elected -exception as two Senators in the Seventh District, one of whom shall hold his seat for the term of two years and the other for the term of four years, to be determined terms; how by lot, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said District; and at the said general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and two, there shall be elected two Senators in the exception as Eighth District, one of whom shall hold his seat for the term of two years and the other for the term of terms; how four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said dis-exception as trict; and there shall be no election for Senator in to 9th district the Ninth District until the general election to be to district determined. -terms; how determined. House of Delegates; of how many members composed. -representation by coun ties in the house apportioned. held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and four, at which time there shall be elected two Senators in the Ninth Distriet, one of whom shall hold his seat for a term of two years and the other for the term of four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said district. 2. That until a new apportionment of Delegates shall be declared in pursuance of the Constitution, the House of Delegates shall consist of eighty-six (86) members, which shall be apportioned as follows: To the counties of Barbour, Boone, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Grant, Gilmer, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Jefferson, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Mineral, Mingo, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, Webster, Wirt and Wyoming, one Delegate each. To the counties of Berkeley, Braxton, Greenbrier, Harrison, Jackson, McDowell, Marshall, Mason, Mercer, Monongalia, Preston, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wayne and Wetzel, two Delegates each. To the counties of Cabell, Fayette, Marion and Wood, three delegates each. To the county of Ohio, four Delegates. To the county of Kanawha, five Delegates. (House Bill No. 205.) CHAPTER 11. AN ACT to empower Boards of Education to hold special elections. [Passed February 11, 1901 In effect 90 days from passage. Approved 18, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: education em elections for when. 1. That, for the purpose of carrying out the pro- Boards of visions of section two of chapter forty-five of the powered to Code providing for school levy, the board of educa- hold special tion of Union district, Marshall county, and the school levy: boards of education of any other school districts or independent school districts in this State that failed to authorize a school levy, by a popular vote at the general election held in one thousand eight hundred .and niety-eight or in one thousand nine hundred, shall, if twenty or more voters of the district ask it in writing, submit the question of laying a school levy to the voters of the district at a special election to be held in such district at such time as the board of duty of seeeducation of the district may designate. The secretary as to retary of the board of education shall post notices of such special election at all the voting places in the district at least ten days before the day on which the election is to be held. If a majority of the votes cast -to lay levy, are "For School Levy" the board of education shall when and lay the levies in the manner provided by sections thirty-five and forty of chapter forty-five of the code. such elections. how (House Bill No. 169.) CHAPTER 12. AN ACT to permit Boards of Education and School Trustees to display the United States flag over every school house in the State. [Passed February 21, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. proved February 22, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Ap That the boards of education throughout the State, Boards of edn cation; may provide U. s. out of the building funds of their districts, may proHags, and re- vide for the purchase of a United States flag four by quire same displayed. Trustees; their duties as to flags. six feet of regulation bunting, for each school house in their districts and require the same to be displayed over the school house during the time the school is in session. 2. That the trustees of each school district shall, in accordance with the direction of the board of education, place such flag over the school house in their school district at the beginning of the school term therein, and said trustees shall cause the teachers to keep said flag so displayed during the time the school is in session, except that on stormy or inclement days said flag shall not be so displayed if in the judgment of said teacher such inclement weather would be destructive of said flag. Unlawful to neglect wife or minor children. -who may make complaint. (Senate Bill No. 39.) CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to provide for the support of Wives and [Passed February 19, 1901. In effect ninety days from passage. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Ap 1. It shall be unlawful for any man in this State to wilfully neglect, fail or refuse, to provide reasonable support and maintenance for his wife or minor children who may need such support; and any person guilty of such neglect, failure or refusal, upon the complaint of the wife or any agent of the West Virginia Humane Society and upon due conviction thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be committed to the county jail for the period of not more than sixty (60) days, unless it shall ap-physical pear that owing to physical incapacity or other good justification. cause he shall be unable to furnish such support: provided, that in case of conviction for the offence -justice may take bond in aforesaid, the justice of the peace before whom such lieu of penalty conviction is had, may in lieu of the penalty herein provided, accept from the person convicted a bond payable to the State, with good and sufficient sure -penalty therefor. incapacity a payable to state. bond. ty, conditioned for the support of the wife, child condition o or children, as the case may be, for the term of six months after the date of said conviction; and the justice may accept such bond at any time after such con--bond acviction and order the release of the person so con- time after victed. cepted any conviction. tice in case of 2. Any justice of the peace of the county in which Duty of justhe offence mentioned in the preceding section is com- violation of mitted may, upon complaint being made under oath, this act. issue a warrant for the arrest of any person charged with such offence, and the justice of the peace before whom such person is brought under such warrant shall hear and determine the cause, subject to the right of appeal, as provided in section two hundred appeal and thirty of chapter fifty of the code of West Vir ginia in cases of persons sentenced to imprisonment by the judgment of a justice. allowed. (Senate Bill No. 34.) CHAPTER 14. AN ACT to prevent and punish cruelty to children. [Passed February 13, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 13, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: ill-treat or "children. 1. That any person, whatsoever, who shall cruelly Unlawful to ill-treat, abuse or inflict unnecessarily cruel punish- abandon inment upon any infant or minor child, and any person, fant or minor having the care, custody or control of any minor child, who shall wilfully abandon or neglect the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less -penalty. than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. dispose of age of fifteen, 2. Any person having the care, custody, or control Unlawful to of any minor child under the age of fifteen years, who child under shall in any manner sell, apprentice, give away, or etc, or to reotherwise dispose of such child, or any person who ceive same. shall take, receive or employ such child for the voca- -for rope or wire walking, tion or occupation of rope or wire walking or as an or acrobat, acrobat, gymnast, contortionist or rider, and any per- gymnast,etc. son who, having the care, custody, or control of any minor child whatsoever, shall sell, apprentice, give away or otherwise dispose of such child, or who shall |