shall be chosen by ballot, and, for two years, at least, next preceding his election, shall have been an inhabitant of this State; shall be, at the time of his election, an inhabitant of the town, parish, or place he may be chosen to represent; and shall cease to represent such town, parish, or place immediately on his ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid.

Акт. 15. The members of both houses of the legislature shall be compensated for their services out of the treasury of the State by a law made for that purpose, such members attending seasonably and not departing without license.

ART. 16. All intermediate vacancies in the House of Representatives may be filled up, from time to time, in the same manner as biennial elections are made.

ART. 17. The House of Representatives shall be the grand inquest of the State, and all impeachments made by them shall be heard and tried by the Senate.

ART. 18. All money bills shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills.

ART. 19. The House of Representatives shall have power to adjourn themselves, but no longer than two days at a time.

ART. 20. A majority of the members of the House of Representatives shall be a quorum for doing business, but, when less than two-thirds of the representatives elected shall be present, the assent of two-thirds of those members shall be necessary to render their acts and proceedings valid.

ART. 21. No member of the House of Representatives or Senate shall be arrested or held to bail on mesne process, during his going to, returning from, or attendance upon, the court.

ART. 22. The House of Representatives shall choose their own speaker, appoint their own officers, and settle the rules of proceedings in their own house, and shall be judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its members, as pointed out in this constitution. They shall have authority to punish by imprisonment every person who shall be guilty of disrespect to the House, in its presence, by any disorderly and contemptuous behavior, or by threatening or ill-treating any of its members, or by obstructing its deliberations; every person guilty of a breach of its privileges in making arrests for debt, or by assaulting any member during his attendance at any session; in assaulting or disturbing any one of its officers in the execution of any order or procedure of the House; in assaulting any witness or other person ordered to attend by, and during his attendance of, the House, or in rescuing any person arrested by order of the House, knowing them to be such.

ART. 23. The Senate, governor, and council shall have the same powers in like cases, provided, that no imprisonment by either for any offense exceed ten days.

ART. 24. The journals of the proceedings and all public acts of both houses of the legislature shall be printed and published immediately after every adjournment or prorogation, and, upon motion made by any one member, the yeas and nays upon any question shall be entered on the journal, and any member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall have a right, on motion made at the same time for that purpose, to have his protest or dissent, with the reasons, against any vote, resolve, or bill passed, entered on the journal.

SENATE.

ART. 25. The Senate shall consist of twenty-four members, who shall hold their office for two years from the first Wednesday of June next ensuing their election.

ART. 26. And, that the State may be equally represented in the Senate, the legislature shall, from time to time, divide the State into twenty-four districts, as nearly equal as may be without dividing towns and unincorporated places; and, in making this division, they shall govern themselves by the proportion of direct taxes paid by the said districts, and timely make known to the inhabitants of the State the limits of each district.

ART. 27. The freeholders and other inhabitants of each district, qualified as in this constitution is provided, shall, biennially, give in their votes for a senator at some meeting holden in the month of November.

ART. 28. The Senate shall be the first branch of the legislature, and the senators shall be chosen in the following manner, viz. every male inhabitant of each town, and parish with town privileges, and places unincorporated, in this State, of twentyone years of age and upward, excepting paupers and persons excused from paying taxes at their own request, shall have a right, at the biennial or other meetings of the inhabitants of said towns and parishes, to be duly warned and holden biennially, forever, in the month of November, to vote, in the town or parish wherein he dwells, for the senator in the district whereof he is a member.

ART. 29. Provided, nevertheless, that no person shall be capable of being elected a senator who is not of the age of thirty years, and who shall not have been an inhabitant of this State for seven years immediately preceding his election; and, at the time thereof, he shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he shall be chosen.

ART. 30. And every person qualified as the constitution provides shall be considered an inhabitant, for the purpose of electing and being elected into any office or place within this State, in the town, parish, and plantation where he dwelleth and hath his home.

ART. 31.

And the inhabitants of plantations and places un

incorporated, qualified as this constitution provides, who are or shall be required to assess taxes upon themselves toward the support of government, or shall be taxed therefor, shall have the same privilege of voting for senators, in the plantations and places wherein they reside, as the inhabitants of the respective towns and parishes aforesaid have. And the meetings of such plantations and places, for that purpose, shall be holden biennially in the month of November, at such places respectively therein as the assessors thereof shall direct; which assessors shall have like authority for notifying the electors, collecting and returning the votes, as the selectmen and town clerks have in their several towns by this constitution.

ART. 32. The meetings for the choice of governor, council, and senators shall be warned by warrant from the selectmen, and governed by a moderator, who shall, in the presence of the selectmen (whose duty it shall be to attend), in open meeting, receive the votes of all the inhabitants of such towns and parishes present and qualified to vote for senators; and shall, in said meetings, in presence of the said selectmen and of the town clerk in said meetings, sort and count the said votes, and make a public declaration thereof, with the name of every person voted for and the number of votes for each person; and the town clerk shall make a fair record of the same, at large, in the town book, and shall make out a fair attested copy thereof, to be by him sealed up and directed to the secretary of the state, with a superscription expressing the purport thereof; and the said town clerk shall cause such attested copy to be delivered to the sheriff of the county in which said town or parish shall lie thirty days, at least, before the first Wednesday of June, or to the secretary of the state at least twenty days before the said first Wednesday of June; and the sheriff of each county or his deputy shall deliver all such certificates by him received into the secretary's office at least twenty days before the first Wednesday of June.

ART. 33. And, that there may be a due meeting of senators on the first Wednesday of June, biennially, the governor and a majority of the council for the time being shall, as soon as may be, examine the returned copies of such records, and, fourteen days before the first Wednesday of June, he shall issue his summons to such persons as appear to be chosen senators by a majority of votes to attend and take their seats on that day; provided, nevertheless, that, for the first year, the said returned copies shall be examined by the president and a majority of the council then in office; and the said president shall, in like manner, notify the persons elected to attend and take their seats accordingly.

ART. 34. And, in case there shall not appear to be a senator elected by a majority of votes for any district, the deficiency

shall be supplied in the following manner, viz.: the members of the House of Representatives and such senators as shall be declared elected shall take the names of the two persons having the highest number of votes in the district, and out of them shall elect, by joint ballot, the senator wanted for such district; and, in this manner, all such vacancies shall be filled up in every district of the State; and, in like manner, all vacancies in the Senate, arising by death, removal out of the State, or otherwise, shall be supplied, as soon as may be after such vacancies happen.

ART. 35. The Senate shall be final judges of the elections, returns, and qualifications of their own members, as pointed out in this constitution.

ART. 36. The Senate shall have power to adjourn themselves, provided such adjournment do not exceed two days at a time, provided, nevertheless, that, whenever they shall sit on the trial of any impeachment, they may adjourn to such time and place as they may think proper, although the legislature be not assembled on such day or at such place.

ART. 37. The Senate shall appoint their president and other officers and determine their own rules of proceedings. And not less than thirteen members of the Senate shall make a quorum for doing business; and, when less than sixteen senators shall be present, the assent of ten, at least, shall be necessary to render their acts and proceedings valid.

ART. 38. The Senate shall be a court, with full power and authority to hear, try, and determine all impeachments made by the House of Representatives against any officer or officers of the State, for bribery, corruption, malpractice, or maladministration in office, with full power to issue summons or compulsory process for convening witnesses before them; but, previous to the trial of any such impeachment, the members of the Senate shall respectively be sworn truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence. And every officer impeached for bribery, corruption, malpractice, or maladministration in office shall be served with an attested copy of the impeachment and order of Senate thereon, with such citation as the Senate may direct, setting forth the time and place of their sitting to try the impeachment; which service shall be made by the sheriff or such other sworn officer as the Senate may appoint, at least fourteen days previous to the time of trial; and, such citation being duly served and returned, the Senate may proceed in the hearing of the impeachment, giving the person impeached, if he shall appear, full liberty of producing witnesses and proofs and of making his defense by himself and counsel; and may, also, upon his refusing or neglecting to appear, hear the proofs in support of the impeachment, and render judgment thereon, his non-appearance notwithstanding;

and such judgment shall have the same force and effect as if the person impeached had appeared and pleaded in the trial.

ART. 39. Their judgment, however, shall not extend further than removal from office, disqualification to hold or enjoy any place of honor, trust, or profit under this State; but the party so convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to the laws of the land.

ART. 40. Whenever the governor shall be impeached, the chief-justice of the supreme judicial court shall, during the trial, preside in the Senate, but have no vote therein.

EXECUTIVE POWER.

GOVERNOR.

ART. 41. There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled Governor of the State of New Hampshire, and whose title shall be His Excellency.

ART. 42. The governor shall be chosen biennially, in the month of November, and the votes for governor shall be received, sorted, counted, certified, and returned in the same manner as the votes for senators; and the secretary shall lay the same before the Senate and House of Representatives on the first Wednesday of June, to be by them examined; and, in case of an election by a majority of votes through the State, the choice shall be by them declared and published; and the qualifications of electors of the governor shall be the same as those for senators; and, if no person shall have a majority of votes, the Senate and House of Representatives shall, by a joint ballot, elect one of the two persons having the highest number of votes, who shall be declared governor. And no person shall be eligible to this office unless, at the time of his election, he shall have been an inhabitant of this State for seven years next preceding, and unless he shall be of the age of thirty years.

ART. 43. In cases of disagreement between the two houses with regard to the time or place of adjournment or prorogation, the governor, with advice of council, shall have the right to adjourn or prorogue the general court, not exceeding ninety days at any one time, as he may determine the public good may require; and he shall dissolve the same seven days before the said first Wednesday of June. And, in case of any infectious distemper prevailing in the place where the said court at any time is to convene, or any other cause whereby dangers may arise to the health or lives of the members from their attendance, the governor may direct the session to be holden at some other, the most convenient, place within the State.

.ART. 44. Every bill which shall have passed both houses