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Any member of the said assembly accepting any of- 

 fice of profit under this state, or tlie United States, or 

 any of them, shall thereby vacate his seat, but shall be 

 capable of being reelected. 



Vacancies occasioned by such disqualifications, by 

 death, or otherwise, shall be supplied by the electors, 

 on a writ from the speaker of the respective house. 



The general assembly shall not have power to in- 

 fringe this constitution ; to abridge the civil rights of 

 any person on account of his religious belief; to restrain 

 him from professing and supporting that belief, or to 

 compel him to contributions, other than those he shall 

 have personally stipulated for tlie support of that or 

 any other; to ordain death for any crime but treason 

 or murder, or military ofiences; to pardon, or give a 

 power of pardoning persons duly convicted of treason 

 or felony, but instead thereof they may substitute one 

 or two new trials, and no more; to pass laws for pun- 

 ishing actions done before the existence of such laws; 

 to pass any bill of attainder of treason or felony ; to 

 prescribe torture in any case whatever ; nor to permit 

 the introduction of any more slaves to reside in this 

 state, or the continuance of slavery beyond the genera- 

 tion which shall be living on the thirty-first day of De- 

 cember, one thousand eight hundred : all persons born 

 after that day being hereby declared free. 



The general assembly shall have power to sever 

 from this state all or any part of its territory west- 

 ward of the Ohio, or of the meridian of the mouth 

 of the Great Kanhaway, and to cede to Congress one 

 hundred square miles of territory in any other part 

 of this state, exempted from the jurisdiction and go- 

 vernment of this state so long as Congress shall hold 

 their sessions therein, or in any territory adjacent 

 thereto, which may be ceded to them by any other 

 state. 



They shall have power to appoint the speakers of 

 their respective houses, treasurer, auditors, attorney- 

 general, register, all general officers of the military, 

 their own clerks and serjeants, and no other officers, 



