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military, under the Government 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 dele-
gate or Senator, or in case of a tie between two or more such qualified
persons, a warant 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 publica-
tion 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 writing 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 the-
session of the General Assembly; provided, however, that 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.

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 Governor.

Sec. 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long as
in its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not
longer than ninety days; and each member thereof shall receive a com-
pensation of five dollars per diem for every day he shall attend the ses-
sion, but not for such days as he may be absent, unless absent on account
of sickness or by leave of the House of which he is a member; and he
shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding
twenty cents per mile; and the presiding officer of each House shall
receive an additional compensation of three dollars per day. When the
General Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor,
the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, and in such case-
the compensation shall be the same as herein prescribed.