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 2. No person shall be eligible to the place of Representative, in the General Assembly, unless he be a freeman, and an inhabitant of the town for which he shall be elected, and possessed of a freehold in the same, sufficient to qualify him to be an elector, according to this Constitution.

3. The House of Representatives shall have authority to elect their own Speaker, Clerk and other officers.

4. Whenever the seat of a member of the House of Representatives shall be vacated by death, resignation, or otherwise, the vacancy may be filled by a new election.

1. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment.

2. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; and, when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. No person shall be convicted, except on concurrence of two thirds of the members elected. When the Governor is impeached, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court shall preside.

3. The Governor and all other executive and judicial officers shall be liable to impeachment; but judgments in such cases shall not extend further than to removal from office. The party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial and punishment, according to law.

1. The Supreme Executive power of this State shall be vested in a Governor, who shall be chosen by the electors, properly qualified, and shall hold his office for the term of one year, from the first Tuesday in May, next succeeding his election, and until his successor be duly qualified. But if no person shall have a majority of votes, the Senate and House of Representatives, in joint committee, shall choose a Governor, by ballot, from the two persons having the highest