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The Legislative Assembly. § 14. Allegiance. Allegiance is the obligation of fidelity and obedience which every citizen owes to the state.

§ 16. Allegiance, may be renounced. Allegiance may be renounced by a change of residence.

§ 16. Persons not citizens. Persons in this state not its citizens, are either:

1. Citizens of other states; or,

2. Aliens.

§ 17. Eligibility to office. Every elector is eligible to the office for which he is an elector, except when otherwise specially provided; and no person is eligible who is not such an elector.

§ 18. Rights and duties of citizens not electors. An elector has no rights or duties beyond those of a citizen not an elector, except the right and duty of holding and electing to office.

§ 19. Rights and duties of citizens of other states. A citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of this state has the same rights and duties as a citizen of this state not an elector.

§ 20. Legislative assembly meets, when. The legislative assembly shall meet at the seat of government at twelve o'clock noon on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January in the year next following the election of the members thereof.

§ 21. Secretary of senate and chief clerk of house to make roll of members. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house, at the opening of each session of the legislative Assembly to make a correct roll of the members of their houses respectively to whom certificates of election have been issued by the proper officers, which certificates shall be filed by such secretary and chief clerk, and the same shall be prima facie evidence of the right to membership of the person certified therein to be elected for all purposes of the organization of either branch of the legislative assembly.

§ 22. Legislative sessions called to order by secretary and chief clerk. In all cases the secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house serving at the close of a session shall remain in office until the organization of the next regular session of the legislative assembly, and at twelve o'clock noon on the day appointed by law for the meeting of the legislative Assembly the said officers, or in the absence of either, then some member or other person appointed by the members present shall call the members of their respective houses so enrolled to order, when the members may proceed to the election of the necessary officers. The term of office of all officers of the senate and house of representatives shall expire with the close of the session at which they were elected, except the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house for the purposes herein designated.