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 2. Electors shall, in all cases, except in those of treason, felony and breach of the peace, he privileged from arrest, during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning from the same; said privilege not to extend farther than on said day of election.

3. The privileges of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction of bribery, forgery, perjury, theft, or other infamous crime; but such elector, so forfeiting his privileges, may be restored to the same by the General Assembly.

4. No person shall be eligible to any office in this State, other than offices in the militia, or town-offices, unless he possess a freehold sufficient to qualify him to be an Elector.

5. The Town-Meetings in this State, for choosing the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Senators and Representatives to the General Assembly, Secretary of State, Attorney-General and General-Treasurer, shall be holden on the third Wednesday of April, annually.

6. Every person who shall vote for the officers mentioned in the preceding paragraph, excepting for Representatives to the General Assembly, shall have his name written at length on the back of his vote at the time of delivering in the same: and the names of all the officers voted for shall be put upon one ticket; and all the votes, so taken, shall be, in open Town-Meeting, sealed up by the Town Clerk, and shall, together with a list of the persons voting for Governor, be delivered by said Town Clerk to a Senator or one of the Representatives of such town, whose duty it shall be to deliver them to the Speaker of the House of Representatives after the said House shall be duly organized; which votes shall be opened, counted and declared, as the House of Representatives shall direct.

7. The oath of office shall be administered to the persons, who shall have been declared to be elected, in the manner in the preceding paragraph recited, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and in presence of the House.