ART. III] CONSTITUTION.

or in the Legislative District of Baltimore City, which
he may be chosen to represent, if such County or
Legislative District of said City shall have been so long
established; and if not, then in the County or City, from
which, in whole or in part, the same may have been
formed; nor shall any person be eligible as a Senator
unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-five
years, nor as a Delegate unless he shall have attained
the age of twenty-one years, at the time of his election.

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Sec. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding
any civil or military office under the United Sfates shall
be eligible as a Senator or Delegate; and if any person
shall, after his election as Senator or Delegate, be elected
to Congress, or be appointed to any office, civil or mil-
itary, under the Government of the United States, his
acceptance thereof shall vacate his seat.

Ineligibles.

Sec. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the Gospel, or
of any religious creed or denomination, and no person
holding any civil office of profit or trust under this
State, except Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible as
Senator or Delegate.

Ineligibles.

Sec. 12. No Collector, Receiver or holder of public
money shall be eligible as Senator or Delegate, or to
any office of profit or trust under this State, until he
shall have accounted for and paid into the Treasury all
sums on the books thereof charged to and due by him.

Defaulters in
eligible.

Sec. 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation,
refusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or
city for which he shall have been elected, of any person
who shall have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator,
or In case of a tie between two or more snch qualified
persons, a warrant of election shall be issued by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates, or President of the
Senate, as the case may be, for the election of another
person in his place, of which election not less than ten
days' notice shall be given, exclusive of the day of the
publication of the notice and of the day of election ; and
if during the recess of the Legislature, and more than
ten days before its termination, such death shall occur,
or such resignation, refusal to act or disqualification be
communicated in writting to the Governor by the person
so resigning, refusing or disqualified, it shall be- the
duty of the Governor to issue a warrant of election to
supply the vacancy thus created, in the same manner
the said Speaker or President might have done during

Vacancies.