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APPENDIX.--VII.

after which time the whole niumber of Representatives shall
not be less than forty nor more than one hundred. Provided,
however, that each county shall be entitled to at least
one Representative.
Sec. 6. The House of Representatives shall choose their
Speaker and other officers, aind shall have the sole power of
impeachment.
Sec. 7. rThe Senators slall be chosen by districts, as
nearly equal in free population (fiee negroes and Indians
excepted) as practicable, and the number of Senators shall
never be less than one-third nor more than one-half the
number of Representatives, and each district sliall be entitled
to one member and no more.
Sec. 8. The Senators shall be chosen for the term of
three years, on the first Monday in September,-shall be
citizens of the Republic, reside. in the district for which
they are respectively chosen at least one year before the
election, and sliall have attained tlie age of thirty years.
Sec. 9. At the first session of Congress after the adoption
of this Constitution, the Senators shall be divided by lot
into three classes, as nearly equal as practicable; the seats
of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the
end of the first year, of the second class at the end of the
second year, the third class at the end of the third year, in
such a manner that one-third shall be chosen each year
thereafter.
Sec. 10. The Vice-President of the Republic shall be
President of the Senate, but shall not vote on any question,
unless the Senate be equally divided.
Sec. 11. The Senate shall choose all other officers of their
body, and a President, pro tempore, in the absence of the
Vice-President, or whenever he shall exercise the office of
President; shall have the sole power to try inmpeachments,
and when sitting as a Court of Impeachment, sliall be under'
oath ; but no conviction sliall take place without thie concurrence
of two-thirds of all the members present.
Sec. 12. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall ornly
extend to removal fiom office, and disqualification to liold
any office of honour, trust, or profit, under' this government;
but the party shall nevertheless be liable to irndictment,
trial, judgment, and punishment, accordinog to law.
Sec. 13. Each House shall be the jludlge of' tie elections,
qulalifications, and returns of its own memrbers. Two-thirds
of each House shall constitute a quorulm to do business, but