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s 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 Goochland; Noland, of Loudoun, and Bradford, of Clarke, on the ground that sufficient evidence was not before the House to justify it in declaring the seats from those counties vacant. The resolution was advocated by Messrs. Forbes, of Fauquier; Anderson, of Botetourt, and Hunter, of Jefferson. Upon a call for the ayes and noes, the resolution was adopted by a vote of ayes 87, noes 19. The question being upon the adoption of the third resolution, which was as follows: "R