Civil Government of Virginia Part 34

SEC. 19. The General a.s.sembly which convened on the first Wednesday in December, nineteen hundred and one, shall be called by the Governor to meet in session at the Capitol at twelve o'clock P.M., on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two. It shall be vested with all the powers, charged with all the duties, and subject to all the limitations prescribed by this Const.i.tution in reference to the General a.s.sembly, except as to the limitation upon the period of its session, qualifications of members, and as to the time at which any of its acts shall take effect; but the ineligibility of the members thereof to be elected to any other office during their terms as members of the General a.s.sembly shall be such as is imposed by this Const.i.tution. The said General a.s.sembly shall elect judges for all of the circuit courts provided for in this Const.i.tution, and also of the corporation courts for Bristol, Radford, and Buena Vista, unless said city courts are sooner abolished.

SEC. 20. The said General a.s.sembly shall enact such laws as may be deemed proper, including those necessary to put this Const.i.tution into complete operation; to confirm those officers whose appointment is made by this Const.i.tution subject to confirmation by the General a.s.sembly or either house thereof; and to transact other proper business; and such session shall continue so long as may be necessary. The members shall receive for their services four dollars per day, for the time when the General a.s.sembly is actually in session, including Sundays and recesses of not exceeding five days, and the mileage provided by law; the Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the Senate shall each receive seven dollars per day for the same period and the mileage provided by law; and the other officers and employees shall receive such compensation for their services as the General a.s.sembly may prescribe. Provision may be made for compensation at said rate of four dollars per day of members of legislative committees which may sit during any recess of said session.

SEC. 21. The compensation and duties of the Clerk of the House of Delegates and of the Clerk of the Senate shall continue as now fixed by law until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and three, after which date their compensation shall be as prescribed by section Sixty-six of this Const.i.tution.

SEC. 22. When the General a.s.sembly convenes on the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, its members and officers, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall severally take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by section Thirty-four of the Const.i.tution. And not later than the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, the Governor and all other executive officers of the State, whose offices are at the seat of government, and all judges of courts of record, shall severally take and subscribe such oath or affirmation; and upon the failure of any such officer, executive or judicial, to take such oath by the day named, his office shall thereby become vacant. Such oaths or affirmations shall be taken and subscribed before any person authorized by existing laws to administer an oath. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause to be printed the necessary blanks for carrying into effect this provision, and the said oaths and affirmations so taken and subscribed, except of the members and officers of the General a.s.sembly, shall be returned to and filed in his office; and those taken by the members and officers of the General a.s.sembly shall be preserved in the records of the respective houses.

SEC. 23. The official copy of the Const.i.tution and Schedule, and of any ordinance adopted by the Convention, shall, as soon as they shall be enrolled, be signed by the President and attested by the Secretary of the Convention, and the President will thereupon cause the same to be delivered to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who will file and preserve the same securely, among the archives of the State in his custody.

The Secretary of the Commonwealth will cause the Const.i.tution, Schedule, and said ordinances to be transcribed in a book to be provided for the purpose and safely kept in his office.

The Secretary of the Convention will immediately upon the adoption of this Schedule, deliver a certified copy of the Const.i.tution and Schedule, and of said ordinances, to the Governor of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 24. The Governor is authorized and directed to immediately issue his proclamation announcing that this revised and amended Const.i.tution has been ordained by the people of Virginia, a.s.sembled in Convention, through their representatives, as the Const.i.tution for the government of the people of the State, and will go into effect as such, subject to the provisions of the Schedule annexed thereto, on the tenth of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon, and calling upon all the people of Virginia to render their true and loyal support to the same, as the organic law of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 25. This Const.i.tution shall, except as is otherwise provided in the Schedule, go into effect on the tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon.

This Schedule shall take effect from its pa.s.sage.

THE POPULATION OF VIRGINIA AT VARIOUS DATES.

YEAR. POPULATION. AUTHORITY.

1616 350 Cooke's Virginia.

1622 4,000 Cooke's Virginia.

1648 15,300, of which 300 were slaves Cooke's Virginia.

1670 40,000, of which 2,000 were slaves Cooke's Virginia.

1700 70,000, white and colored Cooke's Virginia.

1715 90,000, of which 23,000 were slaves Fiske's Old Virginia.

1756 293,000, of which 120,000 were slaves Cooke's Virginia.

1790 746,610, white and colored United States Census.

1800 880,200, white and colored United States Census.

1810 974,600, white and colored United States Census.

1820 1,065,116, white and colored United States Census.

1830 1,211,405, white and colored United States Census.

1840 1,239,797, white and colored United States Census.

1850 1,421,661, of which 526,861 were colored United States Census.

1860 1,596,318, of which 548,947 were colored United States Census.

1870 1,225,163, of which 512,841 were colored United States Census.

1880 1,512,565, of which 631,616 were colored United States Census.

1890 1,655,980, of which 635,438 were colored United States Census.

1900 1,854,980, white and colored United States Census.