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Rh own adjournment, till their office expires, which ſhall be on the day preceding that appointed for the meeting of the next general aſſembly. But if they ſhall at any time adjourn for more than one year, it ſhall be as if they had adjourned for one year preciſely. Neither houſe, without the concurrence of the other, ſhall adjourn for more than one week, nor to any other place than the one at which they are ſitting. The governor ſhall alſo have power, with the advice of the council of ſtate, to call them at any other time to the ſame place, or to a different one, if that ſhall have become ſince the laſt adjournment, dangerous from an enemy, or from infection.

A majority of either houſe ſhall be a quorum, and ſhall be requiſite for doing buſineſs; but any ſmaller proportion which from time to time ſhall be thought expedient by the reſpective houſes, ſhall be ſufficient to call for, and to puniſh their nonattending members, and to adjourn themſelves for any time not exceeding one week.

The members, during their attendance on the general aſſembly, and for ſo long a time before and after as ſhall be neceſſary for travelling to and from the ſame, ſhall be privileged from all perſonal reſtraint and aſſault, and ſhall have no other privilege, whatſoever. They ſhall receive during the ſame time, daily wages in gold or ſilver, equal to the value of two buſhels of wheat. This value ſhall be deemed one dollar by the buſhel till the year 1790, in which, and in every tenth year thereafter, the general court, at their firſt ſeſſions in the year, ſhall cauſe a ſpecial jury, of the moſt reſpectable merchants and farmers, to be