Article IV.

Section 4.

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No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States, or any department thereof, or under this State, or any other State or Government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either House of the General Assembly: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to officers in the Militia, or Justices of the Peace.

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1861 Article V

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1868 Article XIV. Section 7

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That No person in the State shall hold more than one Lucrative Office at any one time, Provided that no appointment in the Militia or to the Office of a Justice of the Peace shall be considered as a lucrative Office.

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