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deny the being of Almighty God, 2nd All persons who shall have been Convicted of treason, perjury or of any other infamous Crime etc"

The persons included in par. 2. of foregoing cited Section are not voters, and hence, if voters [[underlined]] only [[/underlined]] are eligible to Office, those persons are already disqualified for that reason.

This Section 5, citing disqualifications for Office does not mention U.S. Citizens who have not been residents of this State for twelve months as ineligible.

Sec. 10. Art. II, says: "Each member of the House of Representatives shall be a qualified Elector for the State "etc" —. Now, if every Officer of the State, no matter how unimportant his Office be, [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] be a qualified Elector, why was it necessary to require it [[underlined]] Specially [[/underlined]] for the high and important Office of Representative.  The Constitution defines [[underlined]] Specially [[/underlined]] the eligibility to certain important Offices, but no mention is made in regard to any special qualification of County Officers, except as laid down in Sec. 5, ARt VI, which excludes from holding