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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia. (search)
"Resolved, That the 23d section of Article VI. of the Constitution does not authorize the admission of former members of the House of Delegates to seats in said house, in cases in which their successors fail to qualify." After discussion by Mr. Forbes, of Fauquier, it was adopted. The question was then upon the adoption of the second resolution, which was as follows: "Resolved, That vacancies exist in the representation in the House of Delegates from the counties of Ohio, Preston, Monongalia, Harrison, Marion, Kanawha and Berkeley, each being entitled to two delegates; from the counties of Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Wetzel, Taylor, Upshur, Lewis, Wood, Putnam, Mason, and Morgan, each being entitled to one delegate, and from the election districts, composed of the counties of Ritchie and Pleasants, Doddridge and Tyler, and Jackson and Roane, each being entitled to one delegate." The resolution was opposed by Messrs. Newton, of Westmoreland; Rutherfoord, of Gooc