[ 4o8 ] All free male citizens, of full age, and fane mind, who for one year before iliall have been refident in the county, or fhall through the whole of that time have pof- feffed therein real property of the value of or fliall for the fame time have been enrolled in the militia, and no others, fhall have a right to vote for dele- gates for the faid county, and for fenato- rial electors for the diftrid. They fliall give their votes perfonally, and viva voce.
The general aflembly fhall meet at the place to which the lafl: adjournment was, on the 42d day after the day of eledlion of delegates, and thenceforward at any other time or place on their own adjournment, till their ofHce. expires, which fliall be on the day preceding that appointed for the meeting of the next general aflembly.
But if they fliall at any time adjourn for more than one year, it fhall be as if they had adjourned for one year precifely.
Neither houfe, without the concurrence of the other, fliall adjourn lor more than I 4^9 ] one week, nor to any other place than the one at which they are fitting. The go- vernor lliall alfo have power, with the advice of the council of ftate, to call them at any other time to the fame place, or to a different one, if that Ihall have become fince the lad adjournment, dangerous from an enemy, or from infection.
A majority of either houfe fhall be a quorum, and fhall be requifite for doing bufinefs: but any fmaller proportion which from time to time ftiall be thought expe- dient by the refpeftive houfes, Ihall be fufRcient to call for, and to punifh, their non-attending members, and to adjourn themfelves for any time not exceeding one week.