MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRCICE.                        5
                            SECTION V.
                            QUALIrICTION55s.

  [The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from
each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for sixyears; and each Senator
shall have one vote.]
  [Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first
elec-
tion, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The
seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the
sec-
ond year; of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of
the
third class, at the expiration of the sixth year; so that one-thirdmay be
cho-
sen every second year; and if vacancies happen, by re-signation or otherwise.
darinmg the recess of the Legislature of the State, any Executive thereof
may
make temporary appointments, until the next meeting of the Legislature,
which shall then fill such vacancies.]
   [No person shall be a Senator, who shall not have attained to the age
of
 thirty years, andbeen nine years a citizen of the United States, and who
shall
 not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for. which he shall be
cho-
 sen. Const. I, 8.]
   [The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen
 every second year by the people of the several Sz: =: and the electors of
 each State shall have the qna1._1cr o  -  : a   --:-o : -_ :he ocst nu-
 merons branch of the S:ae Lah-:.rc"
   .[No person shall be a             weprcsen.lve who shall not have attained
to the
   age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United
States,
 and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which
he
 shall be chosen.]
   [Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several
   States which may be included within this Union, according to their respect-
   ive numbers; which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of
   free persons; including those bound to service for a term of years, and
ex-
   cluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual
enu-
   meration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the
Con-
   gress of the United States and within every subsequent term of ten years,
   in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives
   shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have
at
   least one representative. Constitution of the United States, I, 21.]