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States, shall be deemed a resident of this State in consequence of being
stationed within the same.
  SECTION 6. Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all
persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery or larceny, or of any
infamous crime, and depriving every person who shall maklze, or beccme di-
rectly or indirectly interested in, any bet or wager depending upon the re-
sult of anv ec:ion, f,: the right to vote at such election

                             ARTICLE IV.

                             LEGISLATIVE.

  SECTION 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly.
  SECT7ON 2. The number of the members of the Assembly shall never be
  less than fifty-four, nor more than one hundred. The Senate shall consist
of
  a number not more thaa one-third, nor less than one-fourth, of the number
of
  the members of the Assembly.
  SECTION 3. The LegiS:ature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the
  inhabitants of the State. in the yK.r one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
  five. and at the end of every ten .vyars thereafler; and at their first
session
  after sucn enumeration; and also afttr each enumeration made by the author-
  ity of the United States, the Legislature sih'all apportion and district
anew the
  members of the Senate and As-embly. according to the number of inhabit-
  ants, excluding Indians not taxed, and soldiers and officers of the United
  States army and navy.
  SECTION 4. The members of the Assembly shall be chosen annually by sin_
  gel" dis-tricts, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November,
by
  the qualified electors of the several districts; such districts to be bounded
  by county, trectcit town or ward lines, to consist of contiguoue territory,
  and be in as compact fotm as practicable.
  SECTION 5. Tihe Senators shall be chosen by single districts of convenient
  contiguous territory, at the Euic time and in the same manner as members
  of the Assembly are reqetred to be chosen, and no Assembly district shall
be
  divided in the fom mation of a Senate district. The Senate districts shall
be
  numbeced in regular series, and the Senators chosen by the odd numbered
  districts shall go out of office at the expiration of the first year.,
and the Sen-
  ators chosen by the even numbered districts shall go out of office at the
expi-
  ration of the second year, and thereafter the Senators shall be chosen
for the
  term of two years.
    SECTION 6. No person shall be eligible to the Legislature who shall not
  have resided one year within the State, and be a qualified elector in the
dis-
  trict which he may be chosen to represent.
    SECTION 7. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and
  qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute
a
  quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day
  and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under
  such penalties as each House may provide.
    SECTION 8. Each House may determine the rule3 of its own proceedings,
  punish for contempt and disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of