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ty-four nor greater thin thirty-six, until the number of white 

 mile inhabitants above twenty-one years of age sh ill be twen- 

 ty-two thousand; and after that event, at such ratio thxt the 

 whole number of rej)resentatives shall never be less than thir- 

 ty-six, nor exceed seventy-two. 



Sbc. 3. The Representatives shill be chosen annually, by 

 the citizens of each county respectively, on the second Tues- 

 day of October. 



Sec. 4. No person shall be a representative, who shall not 

 have attained the age of twenty-five years, and be a citizen of 

 the United States and an inhabitant of this state; shall also 

 have resided within the limits of the county in which he shall 

 be chjsen, one year next preceding his election, unless he 

 shiU have been absent on the public business of the United 

 States orof this state; and shall have paid a state or county tax. 



Sec. 5. The senators shall be chosen biennially, by the 

 qualified voters for representatives; and on their being con- 

 vened in consequence of the first election, they shall be divi- 

 ded, by lot, from their respective counties or districts, as 

 near as can be, into two classes; the seats of the senators of 

 the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first 

 year, and of the second class at the expiration of the second 

 year; so that one half thereof, as near as possible, may be annu- 

 allv chosen forever thereafter. 



Sec. 6. The number of senators shall, at the several pe- 

 riods of making the enumeration before mentioned, be fixed by 

 the legislature, and aprportioned among the several counties or 

 districts, to be established by law, according to the number of 

 white male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years in each, 

 and shall never be less than one-third, nor more than one half 

 of the number of representatives. 



Sec. 7. No person shall be a senator who has not arrived 

 at the age of thirty years, and is a citizen of the United 

 States; shall have resided two years in the county or district 

 immediately preceding the election, unless he shall have been 

 absent on the public business of the United States, or of this 

 state; and shall, moreover, have paid a state or county tax- 



