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
Government 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 Dele-
gate.

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 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 ap-
pointment 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 oc-
currence 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

' Thus amended by Chapter 584, Acts of 1036, ratified November 3, 1036.
" Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1947, ratified November 2, 1948.