CONSTITUTIOX OF 1700. 101 



No. 9. 



THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



We, the People of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania^ ordain ami estah- 

 lish this Constitution f 07' its government. 



ARTICLE I. 



Section I. The legislative power of this commonwealth shall be vested 

 ill a general Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of 

 Eepresentatives. 



Section II. The Eepresentatives shall be chosen, annually, by the 

 citizens of the city of Philadelphia, and of each county, respectively, on 

 the second Tuesday of October. 



Section III. No person shall be a Representative, who shall not have 

 attained the age of twenty-one years, and have been a citizen and inhab- 

 itant of the State three years next preceding his election, and the last 

 year thereof an inhabitant of the city or County, in which he shall be 

 chosen; unless, he shall have been absent on the public business of the 

 United States, or of this State. No person, residing within any City, 

 Town or Borough, which shall be entitled to a separate representation, 

 shall be elected a Member for any County, nor shall any person residing 

 without the limits of any such City, Town or Borough, be elected a 

 Member therefor. 



Section IV. Within three years after the first meeting of the General 

 Assembly, and within every subsequent term of seven years, an enume- 

 ration of the taxable inhabitants shall be made, in such manner as shall 

 be directed by law. The number of Representatives shall, at the several 

 periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by the legislature, and 

 apportioned among the City of Philadelphia and the several counties, 

 according to the number of taxable inhabitants in each; and shall never 

 be less than sixty, nor greater than one hundred. Each county shall 

 have, at least, one Representative; but no County, hereafter erected shall 

 be entitled to a separate representation, until a suflftcient number of tax- 

 able inhabitants shall be contained within it to entitle them to one Repre- 

 sentative, agreeably to the ratio which shall then be established. 



Section V. The Senators shall be chosen, for four years, by the citi- 

 zens of Philadelphia, and of the several counties, at the same time, in the 

 same manner, and at the same places where they shall vote for represen- 

 tatives. 



