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A majority of either house shall be a quorum, and 

 shall be requisite for doing business: but any smaller 

 proportion which from time to time shall be thought 

 expedient by the respective houses, shall be sufficient 

 to call for, and to punis'j, their nonattending members, 

 and to adjourn themselves for any time not exceeding 

 one week. 



The members, during their attendance on the general 

 assembly, and for so Ions a time before and after as 

 shall be necessary for travelling to and from the same, 

 shall be privileged from all personal restraint and as- 

 sault, and shall have no other privilege whatsoever. 

 They shall receive during the same time, daily wages 

 in gold or silver, equal to the value of two bushels of 

 wheat. This value shall be deemed one dollar by the 

 bushel till the year 1790, in which, and in every tenth 

 year thereafter, the general court, at their first sessions 

 in the year, shall cause a special jury, of the most re- 

 spectable merchants and farmers, to be summoned, to 

 declare what shall have been the averaged value of 

 wheat during the last ten years; which averaged value 

 shall be the measure of wages for the ten subsequent 

 years. 



Of tiiis general assembly, the treasurer, attorney- 

 general, register, ministers of the gospel, officers of 

 the regular armies of this state, or of the United States, 

 persons receiving salaries or emoluments from any 

 power foreign to our confederacy, those who are not 

 resident in the county for which tliey are chosen dele- 

 gates, or districts for which they are chosen senators, 

 those who are not qualified as electors, persons who 

 shall have committed treason, felony, or such other 

 crime as woidd subject them to infamous punishment, 

 or who shall have been convicted by due course of law 

 of bribery or corruption, in endeavouring to procure an 

 election to the said assembly, shall be inca{)able of be- 

 ing members. All others, not herein elsewhere exclud- 

 ed, who may elect, shall be capable of being elected 

 thereto. 



