128 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



Sect. IV. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Common- 

 wealth shall be in any actual military service, under a requisition from 

 the President of the United States, or by the authority of this Common- 

 wealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections 

 by the citizens, under such regulations as are or shall be prescribed by 

 law, as fully as if they were present at their usual place of election. 



ARTICLE IV. 

 OF IMPEACHMENT. 



Sect. I. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of 

 impeaching. 



Sect. II. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting 

 for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation. No 

 person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two -thirds of the 

 members present. 



• Sect. III. The Governor and all other civil officers under this Com- 

 monwealth, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office ; 

 but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than to removal from 

 office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, 

 under this Commonwealth; the party, whether convicted or acquitted, 

 shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punish- 

 ment, according to law. 



ARTICLE V. 



OF THE JUDICIARY. 



Sect. I. The judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a 

 supreme court, in courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, 

 in a court of common pleas, orphans' court, register's court and a court 

 of quarter sessions of the peace for each county; in justices of the peace, 

 and in such other courts as the legislature may from time to time es- 

 tablish. 



Sect II. The judges of the supreme court, of the several courts of 

 common pleas, and of such other courts of record as are or shall be 

 established by law, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the Com- 

 monwealth in the manner following, to wit: The judges of the supreme 

 court, by the qualified electors of the Commonwealth at large ; the presi- 

 dent judges of the several courts of common pleas, and of such other 

 courts of record as are or shall be established by law, and all other 

 judges required to be learned in the law, by the qualified electors of the 

 respective districts over which they are to preside or act as judges: and 

 the associate judges of the courts of common pleas by the qualified elec- 

 tors of the counties respectively. The judges of the supreme court shall 

 hold their offices for the term of fifteen years, if they shall so long behave 



