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For the election of senators, let the several coun- 

 ties be allotted by the senate, from time to time, into 

 such and so many districts as they shall find best ; and 

 let each county at the time of electing its delegates, 

 choose senatorial electors, qualified as themselves are, 

 and four in number for each delegate their county is 

 entitled to send, who shall convene, and conduct them- 

 selves, in such manner as the legislature shall direct, 

 with the senatorial electors from the other counties of 

 their district, and then choose, by ballot, one senator 

 for every six delagates which their district is entitled to 

 choose. Let the senatorial districts be divided into 

 two classes, and let the members elected for one of 

 them be dissolved at the first ensuing general election 

 of delegates, the other at the next, and so on alternate- 

 ly for ever. 



All free male citizens, of full age, and sane mind, 

 who for one year before shall have been resident in 

 the county, or shall through the whole of that time 

 have possessed therein real property of the value of 



or shall for the same time have been 

 enrolled in the militia, and no others, shall have a right 

 to vote for delegates for the said county, and for sena- 

 torial electors for the district. They shall give their 

 votes personally, and viva voce. 



The general assembly shall meet at the place to 

 which the last adjournnjent was, on the 42(1 day after 

 the day of election of delegates, and thenceforward at 

 any other time or place on their own adjournment, till 

 their ofiice expires, which shall be on the day preced- 

 ing that appointed for the meeting of the next general 

 assembly. But if they shall at any time adjourn for 

 more than one year, it shall be as if they had adjourned 

 for one year precisely. Neither house, without the con- 

 currence of the other, shall adjourn for more than one 

 week, nor to any other place than the one at which 

 they are sitting. The governor shall also have power, 

 with the advice of the council of state, to call them at 

 any other time to the same place, or to a different one, 

 if that shall have become since the last adjournment, 

 dangerous from an enemy, or from infection. 



