The members, during their attendance on the general aflembly, and for fo long a time before and after as fhall be neceflary for travelling to and from the fame, fhall be privileged from all perfonal reftraint and affault, and fhall have no other pri- vilege whatfoever. They fhall receive [ 4IO ] during the fame tin?e, daily wages in gold or filver, equal to the value of two bufhels of wheat. This value fhall be deemed one dollar by the bulhel till the year 1790, in which, and in every tenth year thereafter, the general court, at their firft feffions in the year, ihall caufe a fpecial jury, of the moft refpeftable merchants and farmers, to be fummoned, to declare what fhall have been the averaged value of wheat during the lad ten years; which averaged value Ihall be the meafure of wages for the ten fubfequent years.
Of this general aflembly, the treafurer, attorney-general, regifter, minifters of the gofpel, officers of the regular armies of this ftate, or of the United States, perfons re- ceiving falaries or emoluments from any power foreign to our confederacy, thofe who are not refident in the county for which they are chofen delegates, or dif- tritts for which they are chofen fenators, thofe who are not qualified as eleftors, perfons who fhall have committed treafon, felony, or fuch other crime as would fub- jeA them to infamous punifliment, or who fhall have been convifted by due courfe of law of bribery or corruption, in endea- vouring to procure an eledion to the faid afTembly, fliall be incapable of being mem- bers. All others, not herein elfewhere excluded, who may eleft, fhall be capable of being elected thereto.
Any member of the faid aflembly ac- cepting any office of profit under this flate, or the United States, or any of them, (hall thereby vacate his feat, but fliall be ca- pable of being re-ele£led.
Vacancies occafioned by fuch difqualifi- cations, by death, or otherwife, fhall be fupplied by the eledlors, on a writ from the fpeaker of the refpeftive houfe.