the profits thereof, longer than four years successively;
and no sheriff shall hold any other office at
the same time; and the legislature may, from time to
time, regulate the office of sheriff, and require indubitable
and ample security to be given for the faithful
performance of all the duties of his office.

    XXXIX.  That the chancellor shall appoint the register
of the chancery court, and the court of appeals
shall appoint their clerk, and the county courts shall
appoint the prosecutor of presentments and indictments
in their court, and they may respectively remove them
for misbehaviour, and fill up the vacancy; and the general
court and county courts may remove their respective
clerks for misbehaviour, and fill up the vacancy.

    XL.  That no foreigner, naturalized or made by law
a citizen of this state, shall be eligible as governor, or
as a member of the general assembly, or of the council,
or as an elector of the senate, or capable of holding
any civil office in this state, until he shall have
actually and bonâ fide resided seven years within this
state next before his election or appointment.

    XLI.  That there be a register of wills appointed for
each county, who shall be commissioned by the governor,
after being elected by the joint ballot of the senate
and house of delegates, to be taken in each house respectively,
deposited in a conference room, the boxes
to be examined by a joint committee of both houses,
and the numbers severally reported, that the appointment
may be entered, which mode of taking the joint
ballot of both houses shall be adopted in all cases;
but if two or more shall have an equal number of ballots