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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
mitting the State, and prescribing its boundaries, the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson were not included; nor were they in the clause of th the new State, that then the district composed of the counties of Berkeley, Jefferson and Frederick, should also become a part of it, if a maLegislature of Virginia was given to the transfer of the county of Berkeley to the new State, authorizing the Governor, if in his opinion the ixed for submitting the question, the condition of the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson rendered the opening of the polls impracticable, andnot attend, and had, indeed, no proper notice of the election. In Berkeley there were nine precincts, and in Jefferson eight, yet, so far as the result of the election as being in favor of the annexation of Berkeley and Jefferson to West Virginia, the Legislature of which in its tuongress never did undertake to give its consent to the transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson counties to the State of West Virginia until March 2