122 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



No. 10. 



THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OP PENNSYLVANIA OF 

 1790, AS AMENDED IN 1838; WITH THE SUBSEQUENT AMEND- 

 MENTS ADOPTED IN 1850, 1857 AND 1864. 



We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ordain and es- 

 tablish this Constitution for its government. 



ARTICLE I. 



OF THE LEGISLATURE. 



Sect. I. The legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested 

 in a general assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Ee- 

 presentatives. 



Sect. II. The representatives shall be chosen annually by the citizens 



* * * on the second Tuesday of October. 



Sect. III. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained 

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

 the State three years next preceding his election, and the last year there- 

 of an inhabitant of the district in and for which he shall be chosen a 

 representative, unless he shall have been absent on the public business 

 of the United States or of this State. 



Sect. IV. In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and 

 in every seventh year thereafter, representatives to the number of one 

 hundred, shall be apportioned and distributed equally, throughout the 

 State, by districts, in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitants in 

 the several parts thereof; except that any county containing at least three 

 thousand five hundred taxables, may be allowed a separate representa- 

 tion; but no more than three counties shall be joined, and no county 

 shall be divided in the formation of a district. Any city containing a 

 sufficient number of taxables to entitle it to at least two representatives, 

 shall have a separate representation assigned it, and shall be divided into 

 convenient districts of contiguous territory, of equal taxable population 

 as near as may be, each of which districts shall elect one representative. 



Sect. V. The senators shall be chosen for three years, by the citizens 



* * * at the same time, in the same manner, and at the same places 

 where they shall vote for representatives. 



Sect. VI. The number of senators shall, at the several periods of 

 making the enumeration before mentioned, be fixed by the legislature, 

 and apportioned among the districts formed, as hereinafter directed, ac- 



