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LUIS GRAU
its deliberations; every person guilty of a breach of its privileges in 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 rescuing any person arrested
by order of the house, knowing them to be such. The senate, president and
council, shall have the same powers in like cases; provided that no imprisonment
by either, for any offence, exceed ten days.
Th e journals of the proceedings of both houses of the general-court, shall be
printed and published, immediately after every adjournment, or prorogation; and
upon motion made by any one member, the yeas and nays upon any question,
shall be taken and entered in the journals.
EXECUTIVE POWER.
PRESIDENT.
ThERE shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be stiled, Th e
PRESIDENT o f T h e STATE o f NEW-hAMPShIRE; and whose title shall be
HIS EXCELLENCY.
Th e PRESIDENT shall be chosen annually; and no person shall be eligible to
this office, unless at the time of his election, he shall have been an inhabitant of
this state for seven years next preceding, and unless he shall be of the age of thirty
years; and unless he shall, at the same time, have an estate of the value of five
hundred pounds, one half of which shall consist of a freehold, in his own right,
within the state; and unless he shall be of the Protestant religion.
Th o s e persons qualified to vote for senators and representatives, shall within
the several towns, parishes or places, where they dwell, at a meeting to be called
for that purpose, some day in the month of March annually, give in their votes for
a president to the selectmen, who shall preside at such meeting, and the clerk in
the presence and with the assistance of the selectmen, shall in open meeting sort
and count the votes, and form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of
votes for each person against his name, and shall make a fair record of the same
in the town books, and a public declaration thereof in the said meeting; and shall
in the presence of said inhabitants, seal up a copy of said list attested by him and
the selectmen, and transmit the same to the sheriff of the county, thirty days at
least before the first Wednesday of June, or shall cause returns of the same to be
made to the office of the secretary of the state, seventeen days at least, before
said day, who shall lay the same before the senate and house of representatives
on the first Wednesday of June, to be by them examined: and in case of an election
by a majority of votes through the state, the choice shall be by them declared,
and published; but if no person shall have a majority of votes, the house of
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