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ture, the roll of freeholders entitled to vote not includ- 

 ing ifenerally the half of those on the roll of the militia, 

 or of the tax-gatherers. 



2. Among those who share the representation, the 

 shares are very unequal. Thus the county of War- 

 wick with only 100 fighting men. has an equal repre 

 sentation with the county of Loudon which has 1746. 

 So that every man in Warwick has as much influence 

 in the government as 17 men in Loudon. But lest it 

 should he thought that an equal interspersion of small 

 among large counties, though the whole state, may pre- 

 vent any danger of injury to particular parts of it, we 

 will divide it into districts, i\ud show the proportions 

 of land, of fighting men, and of representation in each: 



Between the sea-cnast and falls 

 of the rivers, 



Between the falls of the river:- 

 and the Blue ridge of moun- 

 tains, 



Between the Blue ridge and the 

 yVlleghaney, 



Between the Allcghaney and 

 Ohio, 



Total, 

 ♦ Of these, 542 are on the Eastern shore 

 t Of these, 22,616 are eastward of the meridian at the north 

 of the Great Kanhaway. 



An inspection of this tahle will supply the place of 

 commentaries on it. It will appear at once that 19,000 

 men, living below the falls of the rivers, possess half the 

 senate, and want four members only of possessing a 

 majority of the house of delegates ; a want more than 

 supplied by the vicinity of their situation to the seat of 

 government, and of course the greater degree of con- 

 venience and i)uncruality with which their members 

 may and will attend in the legislature. These 19,000 

 therefore, living in one part of the country, give law to 



