masters and judges of the county court excepted), shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the general assembly.
Sec. 11. No person who now is, or shall be hereafter, a collector or holder of public money, nor any assistant on deputy of such holder or collector of public money, shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the general assembly, nor to any office of profit or trust, until he shall have accounted for and paid over all sums for which he may have been liable.
Sec. 12. The general assembly shall exclude from every office of trust or profit, and from the right of suffrage, within this state, all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime.
Sec. 13. Every person who shall have been convicted of directly or indirectly giving or offering any bribe, to procure his election or appointment, shall be disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under this state; and any person who shall give or offer any bribe to procure the election or appointment of any person, shall, on conviction thereof,. be disqualified from being an elector, or from holding office of trust or profit under this state.
Sec. 14. No senator or representative shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during his continuance of office, except to such office as shall be filled by the election of the people.
Sec. 15. Each house shall appoint its own officers, and shall judge of the qualifications, returns and elections of its own members. Two-thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house shall provide.
Sec. 16. Each house may determine the rule of its proceedings, punish its own members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected expel a member; but no member shall be expelled a second time for the same offence. They shall each from time to time,
