Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-03-28

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and punishment according TO law. All
other civil officers ahal be tried for mis-
demeanors and malfeasance in Office in
such manner as the General Assembly
may provide. at3gt a
SEC. 21. No Senator or Representative
shall, during the time for which he shall
have been elected, be appointed to any
civil Office of profit under this State,
which shall have been created, or the
emolument of which shall have been in
creased during such term, except such
offices as may be !illed by elections by
the people.
| SEC. 22. No person holding any lucra-
| tive office under the United States, or
this State, or any Y'ier power shall be
elig ible TO hold Il snu in the General AS
sembly But office in the militia, to
which there is no annual salary, or the
Offices Of justice OF die peace, or post
masters whose compensation does not ex-
ceed one hundred dollars year, or no.
tary public, shall not lA aemed lucrative.
SEC. %. No person who may hereafter
be a collector or holder of public moneys
shall have seat in either house of the
General Assembly, or be eligible to hold
any office of trust or profit in this State,
until he shall have accounted for and
paid into the Treasury all sums for which
he may be liable.
SEC. "a. No money shall be drawn
from the treasury, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law.
Sec. 25. Each member Of the first
General Assembly under this Constitu-
ton shall receive s.,ree dollars per diem
while in session and the further sum of
three dollars for avery twenty miles of
travel in going to and returning from the
place where such session is held, by the
nearest travelled ronte, after which they
shall receive such compensation as shall
be fixed by law: but no General Assem-
bly, shall have the power to increase the
compensation Of its own members. And
when convened iii extra session, they
shall receive the same mileage and pei
diem compensation as fixed by law fol
the regular session, and none other.
SEC. 26. No law of the General Assem-
bly,. passed at the regular session, Of a
public nature, shall take effect until the
4th day of Julymexa after the passage
thereof. Laws passed at special ses.
sion shall take effect ninety days after the
adjournment of the General Assembly
by which they were passed. If the Ge-
eral Assembly shall deem any law of i'm
mediate importance, they may provide
that the same shall take effect by publi-
cation in newspapers in the State.
SEC. 81. No divorce shall be granted
by the General Assembly.
SEC. 28. No lottery shall be authorized
by this State; nor shall the sale of lottery
tickets be allowed.
Sec. %. Every act shall embrace but
one subject, and matters properly con-
nected herewith; which subject shall be
expressed in the title. But if any sub
ject shall be embraced in an act which
shall not be expressed in the tide, such
act shall be void only as to SO uuch there
of as shall not be expressed in the title.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall
not pass local or special laws in the fol-
iowiag cases: lt
For the assessment and collection of
taxes for State, County or Road purposes.
For laying out, opening and working
roads or highways.
For changing the names of persons.
For tae incorporation of cities and
towns @
For vacating roads, town plats. streets
alleys or pnblic squares.
For locating Or changing county seats.
In all the cases above enumerated, and
in all other eases where general law can
be made applicable, all laws shall be gen
eral, and of uniform operation through
out the State and no law changing the
boundary lines of any county shall have
effect until upon being submitted to the
people of the counties effected by the
change, at general election, it shall be
approved by majority of the votes in
each county, cast for and against it.
SEC. 81. No extra compensation shall
be made to any officer, public agent or
contractor, after the service shall have
been rendered, or the contract entered
into; nor shall any money be paid on
anv claim, the subject matter Of which
shall not have been provided for by pre-
existing laws, and no public money or
property shall be appropriated for local or
private purposes. unless such appropria-
liou, compensation, or claim be allowed
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