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term, except such office as may be filled by elections 

 by the people. 



Sec. 21. No person holding any lucrative office 

 under the United States, or any other power, shall be 

 eligible to any civil office of profit, under this State ; 

 provided, that officers in the militia, to which there is 

 attached no annual salary, or local officers and post- 

 masters whose compensation does not exceed five 

 hundred dollars per annum, shall not be deemed lucra- 

 tive. 



Sec. 22. No person who shall be convicted of the 

 embezzlement or defalcation of the public funds of th's 

 State, shall ever be eligible to any office of honor, 

 trust, or profit, under the State ; and the Legislature 

 shall, as soon as practicable, pass a law providing for 

 the punishment of such embezzlement, or defalcation, 

 as a felony. 



Sec. 23. No money shall be drawn from the Trea- 

 sury but in consequence of appropriations made by 

 law. An accurate statement of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the public moneys shall be attached to, 

 and published with, the laws, at every regular session 

 of the Legislature. 



Sec. 24. The members of the Legislature shall 

 receive for their services, a compensation to be fixed 

 by law, and paid out of the public treasury ; but no 

 increase of the compensation shall take effect during 

 the term for which the members of either house shall 

 have been elected. 



Sec. 25. Every law enacted by the Legislature, 

 shall embrace but one object, and that shall be ex- 

 pressed in the title ; and no law shall be revised, or 

 amended, by reference to its title ; but in such case, 



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