182 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



of the Commonwealtli of Pennsylvania, and be sealed with the State seal, 

 and signed by the Governor. 



OF STATE TREASURER. 



Sect. VI. A State treasurer shall be elected annually, by joint vote of 

 both branches of the legislature. 



OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND ALDERMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS. 



Sect. VII. Justices of the peace, or aldermen, shall be elected in the 

 several wards, boroughs and townships, at the time of the election of 

 constables, by the qualified voters thereof, in such number as shall be 

 directed by law, and shall be commissioned by the Governor for a term 

 of five years. But no township, ward or borough, shall elect more than 

 two justices of the peace or aldermen, without the consent of a majority 

 of the qualified electors within such township, ward or borough. 



Sect. VIII. All officers whose election or appointment is not provided 

 for in this constitution, shall be elected or appointed as shall be directed 

 by law. No person shall be appointed to any office within any county who 

 shall not have been a citizen and an inhabitant therein one year next be- 

 fore his appointment, if the county shall have been so long erected; but if 

 it shall not have been so long erected, then within the limits of the county 

 or counties out of which it shall have been taken. No member of con- 

 gress from this state, or any person holding or exercising any office or 

 appointment of trust or profit under the United States, shall at the same 

 time hold or exercise any office in this State, to which a salary is, or fees 

 or perquisites are by law annexed, and the legislature may by law de- 

 clare what state offices are incompatible. No member of the senate, or 

 of the house of representatives, shall be appointed by the Governor to 

 any office during the term for which he shall have been elected. 



OF MISBEHAVIOUR IN OFFICE. 



Sect. IX. All officers, for a term of years, shall hold their offices for 

 the terms respectively specified, only on the condition that they so long 

 behave themselves well ; and shall be removed on conviction of misbe- 

 havior in office, or of any infamous crime. 



DUELLING. 



Sect. X. Any person who shall, after the adoption of the amendments 

 proposed by this convention to the constitution, fight a duel, or send a 

 challenge for that purpose, or be aider or abettor in fighting a duel, shall 

 be deprived of the right of holding any office of honor or profit in this 

 state, and shall be punished otherwise in such manner as is, or may be 

 prescribed by law; but the executive may remit the said offence and all 

 its disqualifications. 



