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after increased, such classification of the additional senators shall be
made as to preserve as nearly as may be an equal number in
each class.
SEC. 7. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Wed
nesday of January, eighteen humidred and fifty-two, on the same
day in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and on the
same day in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and on the
same day in every second year thereafter, and at no other time,
unless convened by the Proclamation of the Governor.

SEC. 8. The General Assembly may Continue their first two
sessions after the adoption of this constitution, as long as in the
opinion of the two Houses, the public interests may require it, but
all subsequent regular sessions of the General Assembly shall be
closed on the tenth day of March next enduing the time of their
commencement, unless the same shall be closed at an earlier day
by the agreement of the two Houses.

SEc. 9 No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Delegate
who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the United
States, and who has net resided at least three years next preceding
the day of his election in this State, and the last year thereof in the
county or city which he may be chosen to represent, if such coun
ty or city shall have been so long established, and if not then
in the county 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 persons 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
a 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, of any denomi
nation, 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. Each House shall be judge of the qualifications and
elections of its members, subject to the laws of the State, appoint
its own officers, determine the rules of its own proceedings,
punish a member for disorderly or disrespectful behaviour, and!
with the consent of two-thirds expel a member; but no member
slmal[ be expelled a second time for the same offence.
SEC. 13. A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn
from day to day, and compel time attendance of absent members
in such manner and under such penalties as each House may Pre
scribe.