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.
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. 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.

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,
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 such qualified persons, the
Governor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy from
a person whose name shall be submitted to him in writing
by the State Central Committee of the political party with
which the Delegate or Senator, so vacating, had been affil-
iated in the County or District from which he or she was
elected, provided that the appointee shall be of the same
political party as the person whose office is to be filled;
and it shall be the duty of the Governor to make said
appointment within fifteen days after the submission there-
of to him. In the event there is no State Central Committee
in the County or District from which said vacancy is to be
filled, the Governor shall within fifteen days after the occur-
rence of such vacancy appoint a person who is otherwise
properly qualified to hold the office of delegate or senator
in such District or County. In every case when any person
is so appointed by the Governor, his appointment shall be
deemed to be for the unexpired term of the person whose
office has become vacant.*

SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and at
no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor. **

*Thus amended, by Chapter 584 of the Acts of 1935 and ratified by the
people November 3, 1986.
**Amended by Article XVII, Section 6.