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be respectively entitled to elect the same number of Representatives as 

 is now prescribed by law. 



Seventh. THAT the first Senate shall consist of Eighteen members to 

 be chosen in districts formed as follows, to wit : The City of Philadelphia 

 and the Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware shall i)e a district and 

 elect three Senators : The County of Chester shall be a district, and shall 

 elect one Senator: The County of Bucks shall be a district, and shall 

 elect one Senator: The County of Montgomery shall be a district, and 

 shall elect one Senator: The County of Northampton shall be a district, 

 and shall elect one Senator : The Counties of Lancaster and York shall 

 be a district, and shall elect three Senators : The Counties of Berks and 

 Dauphin shall be a district, and shall elect two Senators: The Counties 

 of Cumberland and Mifflin shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator : 

 The Counties of Northumberland, Luzerne and Huntington, shall be a 

 district, and shall elect one Senator : The Counties of Bedford and Frank- 

 lin shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The Counties of West- 

 moreland and Allegany shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator : 

 And the Counties of Washington and Fayette shall be a district, and shall 

 elect two Senators: Which Senators shall serve until the first enumera- 

 tion before mentioned shall be made, and the representation in both 

 Houses of the Legislature shall be established by law, and chosen as in 

 the Constitution is directed. Any vacancies which shall happen in the 

 Senate, within the said time, shall be supplied as prescribed in the nine- 

 teenth section of the first article. 



Eighth. THAT the elections of Senators shall be conducted, and the 

 returns thereof made to the Senate, in the same manner as is prescribed 

 by the election laws of the State, for conducting and making return of 

 the election of Representatives. In those districts, which consist of more 

 than one county, the Judges of the district elections within each county, 

 after having formed a return of the whole election within that county, in 

 such manner as is directed by law, shall send the same, by one or more 

 of their number, to the place herein after mentioned within the district, 

 of which such county is a part, where the Judges so met shall compare 

 and cast up the several county returns, and execute, under their hands 

 and seals, one general and true return for the whole district, tliat is to 

 say: the Judges of the district composed of the City of Philadelphia and 

 the Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware shall meet in the State House 

 in the City of Philadelphia ; the Judges of the district composed of the 

 counties of Lancaster and York shall meet at the Court-House in the 

 county of Lancaster ; the Judges of the district composed of the counties 

 of Berks and Dauphin shall meet at Middletown, in the county of Berks ; 

 the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Cumberland and 

 Mifflin shall meet in Greenwood township, county of Cumberland, at the 



