96 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



edge the Scriptures of the old and new Testament to be given by divine 

 Inspiration. 



And no further or other religious Test shall ever hereafter be required 

 of any civil Officer or Magistrate in this State. 



SECTION THE ELEVENTH. 



Delegates to represent this State in Congress, shall be chosen by Ballot, 

 by the future General Assembly, at their first Meeting, and annually for 

 ever afterwards, as long as such Eepresentation shall be necessary; any 

 Delegate may be superseded at any time, by the General Assembly, ap- 

 pointing another in his stead; no Man shall sit in Congress longer than 

 two Years successively, nor be capable of Re-election for three years 

 afterwards : And no Person, who holds any Office in the Gift of Congress, 

 shall hereafter be elected to represent this Commonwealth in Congress. 



SECTION THE TWELFTH. 



If any City or Cities, County or Counties, shall neglect or refuse to 

 elect and send Representatives to the General Assembly, two-thirds of 

 the Members from the Cities or Counties that do elect and send Repre- 

 sentatives, provided they be a Majority of the Cities and Counties of the 

 whole State when met, shall have all the powers of the General Assem- 

 bly as fully and amply as if the whole were present. 



SECTION THE THIRTEENTH. 



The Doors of the House, in which the Representatives of the Freeman 

 of this State shall sit in General Assembly, shall be and remain open for 

 the Admission of all Persons who behave decently, except only when 

 the Welfare of this State may require the Doors to be shut. 



SECTION THE FOURTEENTH. 



The Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly shall be printed 

 weekly, during their Sitting, with the Yeas and Nays on any Question, 

 Yote or Resolution, where any two Members require it except when the 

 Yote is taken by Ballot ; and when the Yeas and Nays are so taken, 

 every Member shall have a Right to insert the Reasons of his Yote, 

 upon the Minutes, if he desires it. 



SECTION THE FIFTEENTH. 



To the End that Laws, before they are enacted, may be more maturely 

 considered, and the Inconvenience of hasty Determinations as much as 

 possible prevented, all Bills of a public Nature shall be printed for the 

 Consideration of the People, before they are read in General Assembly 

 the last Time for Debate and Amendment ; and, except on Occasions of 

 sudden Necessity, shall not be passed into Laws until the next Session 



