Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-09-07

to which said counties may be entitled,
shall be elected by the entire district.
SEC. Z. No senator or representative
shall, during the time for which he shall
have been elected, or during one year
alter the expiration thereof, be appointed
OF elected to any civil office or place OF
trust, under this state. which shall have
been elected, or the emoluments of which
shall have been increased, during such
time.
Sec. 8. In the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty.fve, and every
tenth year thereafter, an enumeration of
all the inhabitants of this state shall be
made in such manneF-as shall be directed
By law; and in the! year eighteen hundred
and fifty, and every tenth year thereafter,
the census taken by authority OF the gov.
eminent of the United States shall be a.
doPted by the general assembly as the
enumeration ofthis state; and the number
ofsenators and representatives shall, at
the first regular session holden after the
returns herein provided for are made, be
apportioned among the several counties or
districts to he established by law, accord.
ing to the number of white inhabitants.
Sec. 9. Senatorial and representative
districts shall be composed of contiguous
territory bounded by county lines; and
only one senator allowed to each senate
rial, and hot more than three represen.
tatiyes to any representative district;
ProUided, that cities and towns contain
ing the requisite population may be erect.
ed into separate districts.
Sec. 10. In forming senatorial and
representative districts, counties contain.
ing population of not more than one.
fourth over the existing ratio, shall form
separate districts, and the excess shall be
gives to the nearest county or counties,
not having a senator or representative
as the case may be. which has the lar.
gest white population.
SEC. il. The first session of the Gen.
eral Assembly shall commence on the first
Monday of January, one thousand eight
hundred and forty nine, and forever after
the general assembly shall meet on the
first Monday Of January next ensuing the
election of the members thereof, and
at no other period, unless as provided by
this constitution.
SEC. II. The senate and house OF
representatives., when assembled, shall
each choose speaker and other officers,
4 {the speaker of the senate excepted.
Each house shall judge of the qualifica.
tons and election of its members, and sit
upon its own adjournments Two thirds
of each house shall constitute a quorum:
but smaller number may adjourn from
day to day, and compel the attendance Of
absent members.
Sec. ID Each House shall keep a
journal of its proceedings, aud publish
them. The yeas and nays of the mem.
bers on any question shall, at the desire
of any two of them, be entered on the
journals.
SEC. Ii. Any two members ofeithe.
house shall have liberty to dissent anc
protest against any act or resolution,
which they may think injurious to the
public, or TO any individual, and have the
reasons oftheir dissent entered on the
journals.
SEC. Is. Each house may determine
the rules of its proceedings; punish its
members for dlsorderly behavior, and,
with the concurrence oftwo-thirds of all
the members elected, expel member, bu
not a second time for the same cause: anC
the reason for such expulsion shall be
entered upon the journal with the name.
Of the members voting on the question.
i SEC. 16. When vacancies shall hap
pen in either house, the governor, or the
person exercising the powers of governor
shall issue writs of election TO fill suci
: vacancies
SEC. II. Senators and representa-
tives shall, in all cases, except treason
felony or breach of the peace, be privil
eyed from arrest, during the session ofihs
general assembly, and in going to ant
returning from the same; and for any
speech or debate in either house, thel
shall not be questioned in any other place
/ SEC. Is Each house may punish, b,
Imprisonment during its session, any per
son, not member who shall be guilty o
disrespect to the house, by any disorderl,
and contemptuous behavior in their pres
ence; Provided.
SEC. 10. The doors Of each house
and ofcommittees of the whole, shall b
kept open, except in such cases as in tn
opinion of the house require secrecy
Neither house shall, without the consen
of the other, adjourn form than tw
f days. nor to any other place, than that i
which the two houses shall be sitting.
SEC. 90. The style ofthe laws of thi
e state shall be: " BE It enacted By til
People Of the state of Illinois, represent
E ed IN The general assembly"
q SEC. 81. Bills may originate in eithe
D house, but may be altered, amended, 0
], rejected by the other; and on the fna