be respectively entitled to elect the same number of Representatives as is now prescribed by law.

Seventh. THAT the first Senate shall consist of Eighteen members to be chosen in districts formed as follows, to wit: The City of Philadelphia and the Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware shall be a district and elect three Senators: The County of Chester shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The County of Bucks shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The County of Montgomery shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The County of Northampton shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The Counties of Lancaster and York shall be a district, and shall elect three Senators: The Counties of Berks and Dauphin shall be a district, and shall elect two Senators: The Counties of Cumberland and Mifflin shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The Counties of Northumberland, Luzerne and Huntington, shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The Counties of Bedford and Franklin shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: The Counties of Westmoreland and Allegany shall be a district, and shall elect one Senator: And the Counties of Washington and Fayette shall be a district, and shall elect two Senators: Which Senators shall serve until the first enumeration before mentioned shall be made, and the representation in both Houses of the Legislature shall be established by law, and chosen as in the Constitution is directed. Any vacancies which shall happen in the Senate, within the said time, shall be supplied as prescribed in the nineteenth section of the first article.

Eighth. THAT the elections of Senators shall be conducted, and the returns thereof made to the Senate, in the same manner as is prescribed by the election laws of the State, for conducting and making return of the election of Representatives. In those districts, which consist of more than one county, the Judges of the district elections within each county, after having formed a return of the whole election within that county, in such manner as is directed by law, shall send the same, by one or more of their number, to the place herein after mentioned within the district, of which such county is a part, where the Judges so met shall compare and cast up the several county returns, and execute, under their hands and seals, one general and true return for the whole district, that is to say: the Judges of the district composed of the City of Philadelphia and the Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware shall meet in the State House in the City of Philadelphia; the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Lancaster and York shall meet at the Court-House in the county of Lancaster; the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Berks and Dauphin shall meet at Middletown, in the county of Berks; the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Cumberland and Mifflin shall meet in Greenwood township, county of Cumberland, at the

house now occupied by David Miller; the Judges of the district composed of the Counties of Northumberland, Luzerne and Huntingdon shall meet in the town of Sunbury; the Judges of the district composed of the Counties of Bedford and Franklin shall meet at the house now occupied by John Dickey, in Air township, Bedford county; the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Westmoreland and Allegheny shall meet in Westmoreland county, at the Court-House in the town of Greensborough; and the Judges of the district composed of the counties of Washington and Fayette shall meet at the Court-House in the town of Washington, in Washington county, on the third Tuesday in October, respectively, for the purposes aforesaid.

Ninth. THAT the election of the Governor shall be conducted, in the several counties, in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State for the election of Representatives; and the returns in each county shall be sealed by the Judges of the elections, and transmitted to the President of the Supreme Executive Council, directed to the Speaker of the Senate, as soon after the election as may be.

The words 'vacancies," as aforesaid being agreed to, and added to the first section of the Sixth article before subscribing. The word "The," in the first section of the seventh article being interlined before subscribing.

Done in Convention, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifteenth. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

Inrolled in the Rolls' office for the State of Pennsylvania in Commission Book, No 1, p. 239, &c.

Witness my Hand and Seal of office, this 11th September, 1790.

No. 10.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA OF 1790, AS AMENDED IN 1838; WITH THE SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS ADOPTED IN 1850, 1857 AND 1864.

WE, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ordain and es tablish this Constitution for its government.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE LEGISLATURE.

SECT. I. The legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a general assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

SECT. II. The representatives shall be chosen annually by the citizens on the second Tuesday of October.

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SECT. III. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State three years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the district in and for which he shall be chosen a representative, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State.

SECT. IV. In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in every seventh year thereafter, representatives to the number of one hundred, shall be apportioned and distributed equally, throughout the State, by districts, in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitants in the several parts thereof; except that any county containing at least three thousand five hundred taxables, may be allowed a separate representation; but no more than three counties shall be joined, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a district. Any city containing a sufficient number of taxables to entitle it to at least two representatives, shall have a separate representation assigned it, and shall be divided into convenient districts of contiguous territory, of equal taxable population as near as may be, each of which districts shall elect one representative. SECT. V. The senators shall be chosen for three years, by the citizens at the same time, in the same manner, and at the same places where they shall vote for representatives.

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SECT. VI. The number of senators shall, at the several periods of making the enumeration before mentioned, be fixed by the legislature, and apportioned among the districts formed, as hereinafter directed, ac

cording to the number of taxable inhabitants in each; and shall never be less than one-fourth, nor greater than one-third, of the number of representatives.

SECT. VII. The senators shall be chosen in districts to be formed by the legislature; but no district shall be so formed as to entitle it to elect more than two senators, unless the number of taxable inhabitants in any city or county shall, at any time be such as to entitle it to elect more than two, but no city or county shall be entitled to elect more than four senators; when a district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining and no connty shall be divided in forming

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a district: The city of Philadelphia shall be divided into single senatorial districts of contiguous territory as nearly equal in taxable population as possible; but no ward shall be divided in the formation thereof.

SECT. VIII. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State four years next before his election, and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the district for which he shall be chosen, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State; and no person elected as aforesaid shall hold said office after he shall have removed from such district.

SECT. IX. The senators who may be elected at the first general election after the adoption of the amendments to the Constitution, shall be divided by lot into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year; of the second class at the expiration of the second year; and of the third class at the expiration of the third year; so that, thereafter, one-third of the whole number of senators may be chosen every year. The senators elected before the amendments to the Constitution shall be adopted, shall hold their offices during the terms for which they shall respectively have been elected.

SECT. X. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Tuesday of January, in every year, unless sooner convened by the Governor.

SECT. XI. Each house shall choose its speaker and other officers; and the Senate shall also choose a speaker pro tempore, when the speaker shall exercise the office of Governor.

SECT. XII. Each house shall judge of the qualifications of its members. Contested elections shall be determined by a committee to be selected, formed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized by law to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as may be provided.

SECT. XIII. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings,