Chap. 121.—An ACT making an apportionment of Senators and Mem-
bers of the House of Delegates.

_Approved February 27, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the House
of Delegates shall be elected biennially by the voters of the
several cities and counties, on the Tuesday succeeding the
first Monday in November, cigbteen hundred¢ and seventy-
nine, and shall be distributed and apportioned as follows:

Accomac shall have one delegate;

Albemarle shall have two delegates:

Alexandria city ‘and county shall have one delegate;

Alleghany, Bath, and Highland shall have one delegate;

Amhert shall have one delegate;

Appomattox shall have one delegate;

Augusta and Staunton shall have two delegates;

Bedford shall have two delegates;

Botetourt shall have one delegate;

Brunswick shall have one delegate;

Buchanan and Wise shall have one delegate;

Buckingham shall have one delegate;

Campbell and Lynchburg shall have two delegates;

Caroline shall have one delegate ;

Carroll shall have one delegate;

Charlotte shall have one delegate;

Chesterfield, Manchester, and Powhatan shall have two
delegates;

Clarke and Warren shall have one delegate;

Craig and Roanoke shall have one delegate;

_ Culpeper shall have one delegate ;

* Cumberland dhd Buckingham shall have one delegate;

Dinwiddie shall have one delegate;

Elizabeth City, Warwick, James City, York, and Williams-
burg shall. have one delegate;

Essex shall have one delegate ;

Fairfax shall have one delegate;

Fauquier shall have one delegate;

Floyd shall have one delegate;

Fluvanna shall have one delegate;

Franklin shall have one delegate;

Frederick and Winchester shall have one delegate;

Gloucester shall bave one delegate;

Goochland shall have one delegate;

Grayson shall have one delegate;

Greene and Maison shall have one delegato;

Greenesville and Sussex shall have one delegate;

Halifax shall have two delegates;

Hanover shall have one delegate;

Henrico shall have one delegate;

Henry sball have one delegate;

Isle of Wight shall have one delegate;
King and Queen shall bave one delegate;

King William shall have one delegate ;

Lancaster and Richmond shall bave one delegate;

Lee shall have one delegate;

Loudoun shall have one delegate;

Loudoun and Fauquier shall have one delegate ;

Louisa shall have one delegate;

Lunenburg shall havo one delepate;

Mathews and Middlesex shall have one delegate;

Mecklenburg shall have one delegate ;

Montgomery shall have one delegate ;

Nansemond shall have one delegate ;

Nelson shall have one delegate;

New Kent and Charles City shall have gne delegate;

Norfolk city shall have two delegates;

Norfolk county shall have one delegate;

Northampton and Accomac shall have one delegate;

Northumberland and Westmoreland sball have one dele-
rate.

. Nottoway and Amelia shall bave one delegate;

Oranze shall have one delegate;

Petersburg shall bave two delegates;

Page shall have one delegate;

Patrick shall have one delegate;

Pittsylvania and Danville shall have three delegates;

Portsmouth shall have one delegate;

Princess Anne shall have one delegate;

Prince Edward shall have one delegate;

Prince George and Surry shall have one delegate ;

Prince William shall have one delegate;

Pulaski and Giles shall have one delegate;

Rappahannock shall have one delegate;

Richmond city shall have four delegates; .

Rockbridge shall have two delegates;

Rockingham shall bave two delegates;

Russell shall bave one delegate;

Scott shall have one delegate;

Shenandoah shall have one delegate;

Southampton shall bave one delegate;

Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg shall have one delegate ;

Smythe and Bland sha!] bave one delegate;

Stafford and King George shall have one delegate ;

Tazewell shall have one delegate;

Washington shall have two delegates;

Wythe shall have one delegate.

2. The senators shall be elected for the term of four years.
The senators first elected under this act, in districts bearing
odd numbers, shall vacate their offices at the end of two
years, and those elected in districts bearing even numbers at
the end of four years; and vacancies occurring by expiration
of term shall be filled by the election of the senators for the
full term. The following shall constitute the senatorial dis-
tricts:
Washington aod Smyth shall form the first district, and
be entitled to ono senator.

Scott, Lee, and Wise shall form the second district, and be
entitled to one senator.

Russell, Buchanan, and Tazewell shall form the third dis-
trict, and be entitled to one senator.

Montgomery, Roanoke, and Craig shall form the fourth
district, and be entitled to one senator.

Pulaski, Wythe, Bland, and Giles shall form the fifth dis-
trict, and ‘be entitled to one senator.

Carroll, Grayson, and Floyd shall torm the sixth district,
and be entitled to one senator.

.Rockbridge, Botetourt, Alleghany, Bath, and Highland
shall form the seventh district, and be entitled to one sen-
ator.

Rockingham shall form the eighth district, and be entitled
to one senator.

Augusta and Staunton shall form the ninth district, and
be entitled to one senator.

Shenandoah and Page shall form the tenth district, and be
entitled to one senator.

Fauquier and Loudoun shall form the eleventh district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Clarke, Frederick, and Warren shall form the twelfth dis-
trict, and be entitled to one senator.

Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Louisa shall
form the thirteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Alexandria city and county, Fairfax, and Prince William
shall form the fourteenth district, and be entitled to one sen-
ator.

Culpeper, Rappahannock, Madison, and Orange shall form
the fifteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Powhatan, Goochland, atd Chesterfield and Manchester
shall form the sixteenth district, and be entitled to one sen-
avor.

Albemarle and Greene shall form the seventeenth district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Buckingham, Fluvanna, and Appomattox shall form the
eighteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Amherst and Nelson shall form the nineteenth district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Campbell and Lynchburg shall form the twentieth district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Halifax shall form the twenty-first district, and be entitled
to one senator.

Bedford shall form the twenty-second district, and be enti-
tled to one senator.

Patrick and Henry shall form the twenty-third district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Pittsylvania and Danville shall form the twenty-fourth
district, and be entitled to cne senator.
Charlotte and Mecklenburg shall form the twenty-fifth
district, and be entitled to one senator.

Franklin shall form the tw enty-sixth district, and be enti-
tled to one senater,

Dinwiddie, Greenesville, and Sussex shall form the twenty-
seventh district, and be entitled to one senator.

Lunenburg, Nottoway, and Brunswick shall form the
twenty-cighth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Petersburg, Prince George, and Surry shall form the
twenty-ninth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Amclia, Cumberland, and Prince Edward sball form the
thirtieth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Norfolk city and Princess Anne shall form the thirty-first
district, and be entitled to one senator.

Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond shall form
the thirty-second district, and be entitled to one senator.

Portsmouth and Norfolk county shall form the thirty-third
district, and be entitled to one senator,

Tlanover and Caroline shall form the thirty-fourth district,
and be entitled to one senator.

Richmond city and Henrico shall form the thirty-fifth dis-
trict, and be entitled to two senators.

King George, Richmond, Westmoreland, Northumberland,
and Taancaster shall form the thirty-sixth district, and be
entitled to one senator.

Accomac and Northampton shall form the thirty-seventh
district. and be entitled to one senator.

Klizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, Charles City,
New Kent, and King William shall form the thirty-eighth
district, and be entitled to one senator.

King and Queen, Middlesex, Gloucester, Essex,and Mathews
shall form the thirty-ninth district, and be entitled to one
senator.