CONSTITUTION OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.    613

for that purpose; such members attending seasonably, and not departing
without license.

16. All intermediate vacancies in the House of Representatives may
he filled, from time to time, in the same manner as annual elections are
made.

17. The House of Representatives shall be the grand inquest of the
State, and all impeachments made by them shall be heard and tried by
the Senate.

18. All money bills shall originate in the House of Representatives,
but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other
bills,

19. The House of Representatives shall have power to adjourn them-
selves, but no longer than two days at a time.

20. A majority of the members of the House of Representatives shall
be a quorum for doing business; but when less than two thirds of the
representatives elected shall be present, the assent of two thirds of those
members shall be necessary to vender their acts and proceedings valid.

21. No member of the House of Representatives or Senate shall be
arrested or held to bail on mesne process, during his going to, return-
ing from, or attendance upon, the Court.

22. The House of Representatives shall choose their own Speaker,
appoint their own officers, and settle the rules of the proceedings in their
own House; and shall be judge of the returns, elections and qualifica-
tions of its members, as pointed out in this constitution. They shall
have authority to punish by imprisonment every person who shall be
guilty of disrespect to the House in its presence by any disorderly and
contemptuous behavior, or by threatening or ill treating any of its mem-
bers ; or by obstructing its deliberations; every person guilty of a breach
of its privileges m making arrests for debt, or by assaulting any member
during his attendance at any session; in assaulting or disturbing any
one of its officers in the execution of any order or procedure of the
House; in assaulting any witness or other person ordered to attend, by
and during his attendance of the House, or in securing any person ar-
rested by order of the House, knowing them to be such.

23. The Senate, Governor and Council, shall have the same powers in
like cases; provided that no imprisonment by either, for any offense ex-
ceed ten days.

24. The journals of the proceedings, and all public acts of both houses
of the.Legislature, shall be printed and published immediately after ev-
ery adjournment or prorogation; and upon motion made by any one
member, the yeas and nays upon any question shall be entered on the
journal; and any member of the Senate or House of Representatives
shall have a right, on motion made at the same time for that purpose,
to have his protest or dissent, with the reasons, against any vote, resolve
or bill passed, entered on the journal.

SENATE.

25. The Senate shall consist of twelve members, who shall hold their
office for one year from the first Wednesday of June, next ensuing their
election.

26. And that the State may be equally represented in the Senate, the
Legislature shall from time to time, divide the State into twelve dis-
tricts, as nearly equal as may be, without dividing towns and unincor-
porated places; and in making this division they shall govern them-
selves by the proportion of direct taxes paid by the said districts, and
timely make known to the inhabitants of the State the limits of each
district.

27. The free holders and other inhabitants of each district, qualified
as in this constitution is provided, shall annually give in their votes for
a senator, at some meeting holden in the month of March.