Article First.
Article First
Section XVI. Commencement of official term after first election
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Commencement of official term after first election
18471822
Commencement of official term after first election
The governor, lieutenant-governor, senators, and members of assembly, first elected, under this constitution, shall enter on the duties of their respective offices, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; and the governor, lieutenant-governor, senators, and members of assembly, now in office, shall continue to hold the same, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and no longer.