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-
ernmental of the United States, his acceptance thereof shall
vacate hip 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,
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 affiliated in the County or Dis-
trict 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 thereof 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 occurence 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. 1

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. 2

1 Thus amended by Chapter 584 of the Acts of 1935 and ratified by the people November 3,
1936.
2 Amended by Article XVII, Section 6.