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Sec. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any civil or
military office under the United States shall be eligible 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. 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, Eeceiver 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 warrant 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 Genera] Assembly; provided, however, that unless a meet-
ing 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.

This section, referred to in construing article 3, section 19—see notes
thereto. Covington v. Buffett, 90 Md. 569.

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 bv

Proclamation of the Governor.

The meaning of the term "general assembly" as used in this section, re-
ferred to in determining that the Governor was not embraced in that term
as used in article 14, section 1—see notes thereto. Warfield v. Vandiver,
101 Md. 111.

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 compensa-