shall respectively be commissioned for five years, if so long they shall behave themselves well; but may be removed by the Governor within that time, on conviction of misbehavior in office or on the address of both houses of the Legislature. Prothonotaries, registers in chancery, clerks of the Orphans' Courts, registers, recorders and sheriffs shall keep their offices in the town or place in each county in which the Superior Court is usually held.

Sec. 5. Attorneys at law, all inferior officers in the treasury department, election officers, officers relating to taxes, to the poor and to highways, constables and hundred officers, shall be appointed in such manner as is or may be directed by law.

Sec. 6. All salaries and fees annexed to offices shall be moderate; and no officer shall receive any fees whatever without giving to the person who pays, a receipt for them, if required, therein specifying every particular and the charge for it.

Sec. 7. No costs shall be paid by a person accused, on a bill being returned ignoramus, nor on acquittal by a jury.

Sec. 8. The rights, privileges, immunities and estates of religious societies and corporate bodies shall remain as if the Constitution of this State had not been altered. No ordained clergyman or ordained preacher of the gospel of any denomination, shall be capable of holding any civil office in this State, or of being a member of either branch of the Legislature, while he continues in the exercise of the pastoral or clerical functions.

Sec. 9. All the laws of this State existing at the time of making this Constitution and not inconsistent with it, shall remain in force unless they shall be altered by future laws; and all actions and prosecutions now pending shall proceed as if this Constitution had not been made.

Sec. 10. This Constitution shall be prefixed to every edition of the laws made by direction of the Legislature.

Sec. 11. The Legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide by law for ascertaining what statutes and parts of statutes shall continue to be in force within this State; for reducing them and all acts of the General Assembly into such order and publishing them in such manner that thereby the knowledge of them may be generally diffused; for choosing inspectors and judges of elections, and regulating the same in such manner as shall most effectually guard the rights of the citizens entitled to vote; for better securing personal liberty, and

easily and speedily redressing all wrongful restraints thereof; for more certainly obtaining returns of impartial juries; for dividing lands and tenements in sales by sheriffs, where they will bear a division, into as many parcels as may be without spoiling the whole, and for advertising and making the sales in such manner and at such times and places as may render them most beneficial to all persons concerned; and for establishing schools, and promoting arts and sciences.

Sec. 12. No property qualification shall be necessary to the holding of any office in this State, except the office of Senator in the General Assembly, and the offices of assessor, inquisitor on lands, and levy court commissioner, and except such offices as the General Assembly shall be law designate.

ARTICLE VIII.

Meribers of the General Assembly and all officers, executive and judicial, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support the Constitution of this State, and to perform the duties of their respective offices with fidelity.

ARTICLE IX.

The General Assembly, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem it necessary, may, with the approbation of the Governor, propose amendments to this Constitution, and at least three and not more than six months before the next general election of Representatives, duly publish them in print for the consideration of the people; and if three-fourths of each branch of the Legislature shall, after such an election and before another, ratify the said amendments, they shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts of this Constitution.

(No convention shall be called but by the authority of the people; and the mode of making their sense known shall be that at any general election held for Representatives in the General Assembly, and which shall have been prescribed by the General Assembly at its regular session next preceding the said election as the proper occasion for ascertaining such sense, the citizens of this State entitled to vote for Representatives at such election may vote by ballot for or against a convention as they shall severally choose to do, and in so voting the ballot shall be separate from those cast for any person voted for at such election and

shall be kept distinct and apart from any other ballot so cast; and if at any such election the number of votes for a convention shall be equal to a majority of all the citizens in the State having right to vote for Representatives, ascertained by reference to the highest number of votes cast in the State at any one of the three general elections next preceding the day of voting for a convention, except when they may be less than the whole number of votes voted both for and against a convention, in which case the said majority shall be ascertained by reference to the number of votes given on the day of voting for or against a convention, the General Assembly shall, at its next session, call a convention, to consist of at least as many members as there are in both houses of the Legislature, to be chosen in the same manner, at the same places, and at the same time that Representatives are by the citizens entitled to vote for Representatives, on due notice given for one month, and to meet within three months after they shall be elected. The Legislature shall provide by law for receiving, tallying and counting said votes for and against a convention and for returning to the General Assembly at its next session the state of the said vote, and also for ascertaining and returning to the said General Assembly the number of ballots cast at said election on or by which Representatives were voted for so as to enable it to determine whether a majority of those who voted for Representatives voted for a convention; and shall also by law enact all provisions necessary for giving full effect to this article.)

SCHEDULE.

That no inconveniences may arise from the amendments of the Constitution of this State, and in order to carry the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared and ordained as follows:

Section 1. The offices of the present Senators and Representatives shall not be vacated by any amendment of the Constitution made in this convention, nor otherwise affected, except that the terms of the Representatives and the terms of the Senators, which will expire on the first Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are hereby extended to the second Tuesday of November in that year; and the terms of the Senators which will expire on the first Tuesday

of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, are hereby extended to the second Tuesday of November in that year; and the terms of the Senators which will expire on the first Tuesday of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, are hereby extended to the second Tuesday of November in that year.

The General Assembly shall meet on the first Tuesday of January next, and shall not be within the amended provision respecting biennial sessions, which biennial sessions shall commence with the session of the General Assembly on the first Tuesday of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Sec. 2. The offices of the present sheriffs and coroners shall not be vacated by any amendment to the Constitution made in this convention, nor otherwise affected, except that the term of office of the sheriff of Sussex county is hereby extended to the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and until a successor be duly qualified; and on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall be the first election for sheriff in Sussex county under this amended Constitution. And the term of the present coroner for Sussex county is hereby extended to the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour, and until a successor shall be duly qualified; and on the said last mentioned day shall be the first election for coroner in Sussex county under this amended Constitution.

The terms of the present sheriffs and coroners for Kent county and New Castle county, are hereby extended to the second Tuesday of Novmber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and until successors to them respectively be duly qualified; and on and after the first Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the Governor shall have power to appoint a sheriff and a coroner for New Castle county, and a sheriff and coroner for Kent county, to continue in office until the second Tuesday of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and until successors to them respectively be duly qualified. And on the said last mentioned day shall be the first election for sheriff and for coroner in New Castle county and in

Kent county under this amended Constitution, unless a vacancy happen in the office of sheriff or coroner of New Castle or Kent county, or of coroner for Sussex county, before the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in which case an election shall be held on that day for a sheriff or coroner under this amended Constitution, in place of the sheriff or coroner whose office has become vacant.

Sec. 3. The first election for Representatives under this amended Constitution shall be held on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, which shall be the commencement of biennial elections. At this election one Senator shall be chosen in each county for four years. Also, at the biennial election to be held in the several counties on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, two Senators shall be chosen in each county for four years each. But as the term of one Senator in each county will expire on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, when no election will be held, to provide for this special case, a Senator shall be chosen in each county at the election held on the second Tuesday in November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for one year, to succeed the Senator for such county whose term will expire on the second Tuesday of Novem ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and to continue in office until the second Tuesday of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, when two Senators shall be chosen in each county as afore-provided.

Sec. 4. The term of office of the present Governor shall not be vacated nor extended by any amendment made to the Constitution in this convention, but the said office shall continue during the original term thereof; but the ninth and fourteenth sections. of the third article of this Constitution shall be immediately in force as amended. An election for Governor shall be held on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.