Chap. 14.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, in relation to
the apportionment of senatorial district, and providing that under
section seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia in relation to the appor-
tionment for the house of delegates cities of the second class shall
also be deemed to be parts of the counties out of which such cities may
have been carved. [S B 1]

Approved March 16, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 79. Senatorial districts —The State shall be divided
into thirty-six districts entitled to senators as follows:

First.—Accomac, Northampton and Princess Anne shall be
entitled to one senator.

Seecond.—Norfolk city shall be entitled to two senators.

Third.—Norfolk county and the cities of South Norfolk and
Portsmouth shall be entitled to one senator.

Fourth._—Amherst and Nelson shall be entitled to one
senator.

Fifth.—Nansemond, Suffolk, Southampton and Isle of Wight
shall be entitled to one senator.
Sixth.—Sussex, Surry, Prince George, Greensville, and the
city of Hopewell shall be entitled to one senator.
Seventh.—Mecklenburg and Brunswick shall be entitled to
one senator.
Eighth.—Dinwiddie and Petersburg shall be entitled to one
senator.
Ninth.—Amelia, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Prince Edward and
Powhatan shall be entitled to one senator.
Tenth.—Halifax shall be entitled to one senator.
Eleventh.—Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland and
Charlotte shall be entitled to one senator.
Twelfth.—Campbell and Lynchburg shall be entitled to one
senator.
Thirteenth.—Pittsylvania, Danville, Henry and Patrick shall
be entitled to two senators.
Fourteenth.—Carroll and Grayson shall be entitled to one
senator.
Fifteenth. Washington, Bristol and Smyth shall be entitled
to one senator. |
Sixteenth.—Scott and Lee shall be entitled to one senator.
Seventeenth.—Wise and Dickenson shall be entitled to one
senator.
Eighteenth.—Buchanan, Tazewell and Russell shall be en-
titled to one senator.
Nineteenth.—Wythe, Bland, Giles and Pulaski shall be en-
titled to one senator.
Twentieth.—Bath, Craig, Botetourt, Alleghany and the city
of Clifton Forge shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-first—Roanoke city and Roanoke county shall be
entitled to one senator.
Twenty-second.—Roanoke city, Roanoke county, Franklin,
Floyd. Montgomery and Radford shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-third.—Rockbridge, Buena Vista and Bedford shall
be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-fourth. Augusta, Highland, and the city of Staun-
ton shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-fifth Rockingham. Harrisonburg, Page and War-
ren shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-sixth.—Frederick, Winchester, Shenandoah and
Clarke shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-seventh.—Albemarle, Charlottesville, Greene, Flu-
vanna and Madison shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-eight. — Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Louisa,
Orange and Stafford shall be entitled to one senator.
Twenty-ninth.—Fauquier, Loudoun, Culpeper and Rappa-
hannock shall be entitled to one senator.
Thirtieth.— Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria and Prince Wil-
liam shall be entitled to one senator.
Thirty-first—King George, Westmoreland, Northumberland,

Lancaster and Richmond county shall be entitled to one senator.

Thirty-second.—Caroline, King William, Hanover and
Goochland shall be entitled to one senator.

Thirty-third—King and Queen, Middlesex, Gloucester,
Mathews, York and Essex shall be entitled to one senator.

Thirty-fourth—Newport News, Hampton, Elizabeth City
and Warwick shall be entitled to one senator. ,

Thirty-fifth Henrico, Chesterfield, New Kent, Charles
City, James City and the city of Williamsburg shall be entitled
to one senator.

Thirty-sixthRichmond city shall be entitled to three
senators.

For the purposes of this section and section seventy-eight,
as amended, cities of the second class, whether mentioned by
name or not, shall be deemed to be parts of the counties out of
which such cities may have been carved, respectively, and in-
eluded in the enumeration of such counties.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.