“ Each county shall have one representative, and no county shall have more than two Representatives; thirty seven counties having the greatest population counting all free white persons and three fifths of the people of color, shall have two representatives. The said apportionment shall be made by the General Assembly at the session next after each future enumeration of the inhabitants of this State made under the Constitution and laws thereof, but at no other time. ”

“ Each senator and representative, before he be permitted to take his seat, shall take an oath, or make affirmation, that he hath not practiced any unlawful means, either directly or indirectly to procure his election; and every person shall be disqualified from serving as a senator or representative for the term for which he shall have been elected, who shall be convicted of having given or offered any bribe or treat, or canvassed for such election ”

“ No person who heretofore hath been, or hereafter may be, a collector, or holder of public moneys, shall be eligible to any office in this State until such person shall have accounted for and paid into the treasury all sums for which he may be accountable or liable. ”

“ The person of a debtor, where there is not a strong presumption of fraud, shall not be detained, in prison after delivering up, bona fide, all his estate, real and personal, for the use of his creditors, in such manner as shall be hereafter regulated by law. ”

“ Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed on a free white person, and on the like proof, except in case of insurrection by such slave, and unless such death should happen by accident in giving such slave moderate correction. ”

“ No senator or representative shall be liable to be arrested during his attendance on the General Assembly, or for ten days previous to its sitting, or for ten days after the rising thereof except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace ”

“ Provided, That in case of an invasion, and the inhabitants shall be driven from any county, so as to prevent an election therein, such refugee inhabitants, being a majority of the voters of such county, may meet under the direction of any three justices of the peace thereof, in the nearest county, not in a state of alarm, and proceed to an election, without having paid such tax so required of electors ”

“ The judges of the superior courts, or any one of them, shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, prohibition, scire facias, and all other writs which may be necessary for carrying their powers fully into effect. ”