the last year thereof, in the county, or in the Legislative Dis-
trict of Baltimore city, which he may be chosen to represent,
in 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 bis election.

SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any
civil or military office under the United States shall be eli-
gible 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 military, under the Gov-
ernment of the United States, his acceptance thereof shall
vacate his seat.

SEC. II. 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.

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.

SEC. 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation, re-
fusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or city
for which he shall have been elected, or any person who shall
have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in case of a tie
between two or more such qualified persons, a warrant of
election shall be issued by the Speaker of the House of Dele-
gates, 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 com-
municated in writing to the Governor by the person so re-
signing, refusing or disqualified, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to issue a warrant of election to supply the va-
cancy thus created, in the same manner the said Speaker or
President might have done during the session of the General
Assembly; provided, however, tht unless a meeting of the
General Assembly may intervene, the election thus ordered
to fill such vacancy shall be held on the day of the ensuing
election for Delegates and Senators.