Article III.
Of the Distribution of Powers

Section 4. Qualifications

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Qualifications

No person shall be a member of the house of representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years, be a citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding his election, and at the time of his election shall have had an actual residence of sixty days in the county, or district he may have been chosen to represent.

Qualifications

No person shall be a member of the House of Representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years, be a male citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding his election, and at the time of his election shall have had an actual residence of sixty days in the County, or District he may have been chosen to represent.

Qualifications

No person shall be a member of the House of Representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years, be a free white male citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding his election, and at the time of his election shall have had an actual residence of sixty days in the County, or District he may have been chosen to represent.

No person shall be a member of the House of Representatives shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years ; be a free white male citizen of the United States, and have been an inhabitant of this State or Territory one year next preceding his election ; and at the time of his election, have an actual residence of thirty days in the county or district he may be chosen to represent.

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