The Text

That the members of the senate be elected for four years, and immediately after the first election, they be divided by lot into four classes, six in each class, and numbered, one, two, three, four; and that the seats of the members of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year; the second class the second year; and so on continually, to the end that the fourth part of the senate, as nearly as possible, may be annually chosen.