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more City, which he may be chosen to represent, if such County
or Legislative District of said City shall have been so long estab-
lished; and if not, then in the County or 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 eligible as a
Senator or Delegate; and if any person shall after his election as
Senator or Delegate be elected tot 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 re-
ligious 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 snail 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, 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, ex-
clusive of the day of the publication 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 communi-
cated in writing to the Governor by the person so resigning, re-
fusing 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