, 1857-10-09

such county 10 a y mbcc, 1.n .r.4 rouuu
shall be attached adjoining count
for Senatorial Or uta,,ya purposes
s I. A SenaioT strict when NOR,
than one county snail constitute the same
shall be composed of contiguous counties
and no county shall be divided in creating
Senatorial districts.
S 8. Noperson shall be q Senator or Rep
reseutative who, at the time of his election
is not a citizen Of the United States mol
any one who has not been, for one year
next preceding lis election, an inhabtan
Of the county or district whence he may bt
chosen. Senators and Representatives
shall be ct least twenty-onc years Of age.
s o. Senators and Representatives, in
all eases, except for treason, felony, OF
breaches Of the peace, shall be privileged
from arrest during the session of the Leg.
islItiye Assembly, and in gojng TO- land re.
turning from the same and shall not be
subject to any civil process during the
session Of the Legislative Assembly, nor
during the fifteen days next before tho
commencement thereof Nor shall a mem.
Der, for words uttered in debate in either
house, be questioned in any other place.
10. The sessions Of The Legislative
Assembly shall be held JienniaIly, at the
capitol Of the State, commencing on the
second Monday Of September, in the year
1853, and on the same day of every second
year thereafter, unless different day shall
have been appointed by law.
s IL. Each house, when assembled,
shall choose its own officers, judge Of the
election, qualifications, and r:turns of its
own members, determine its own rules Of
proceeding, and set upon its own adjourn
ments but neither house shall, without
the concurrence of the other adjourn for
more than three days, nor TO any other
place than that in which it my be sitting.
5 II. Two-thirds of each house shall
quorum to do business, but q
smaller number may meet, adjourn from
day to day, and compel the attendance OF
absent members. A quorum being in at
tendance, III either house fail to effect an
within the first five days there
after, the members Of the House so failing
shall be entitled to no compensation from
the end of the said FIVE days until and an
organization shall have been effected.
S Is. Each house shall keep a journal
of its proceedings, and publish the same
The yeas and nays, on any question, shall
at the request Of any two members, be en-.
tered together with the names of the mem-
bers demanding the same, on the journal
provided, that on a motion to adjourn it
shall require one-tenth of the members
present to order the yeas and nays.
a. The doors Of each house, and Of
of the whole shall be kept open,
except in such cases as in the opinion Of
either house may require secrecy.
5 Is. Either house may punish its mem
bers for dsorderly behavior, and may, with
the concurrence Of tyo-thirds, expel a mem
Der bnt not second time for the same
cause.
s l6. Either house, during It's session,
may punish, by Imprisonment, any person
not a member who shall have been guilty
of disrespect to the house by disorderly or
behavior 10 lis presence; but
such Imprisonment shall not at any time
exceed twenty.fonr hours.
s II. Each house shall have all powers
necessary ior a branch Of the legislative
department of free and independent
State.
Is. Bills may originate in either
house, but may be amended or rejected in
the othoT except that bills for raising reve-
nue. shall originate in the House Of Repre-
sentatives
s 10. Every bill shall be read by sec
tions, on three several days, in each house,
unless, in case Of emergency, two-ihirds oI
the house, where such bill may be depend
ing, shall, by vote of yeas and nays
deem it expedient to dispense with thi,
rule bat the reading Of bill by sections
on its final passage, shall in no case be dis
pensed with, and the vote on the passage
of every bill or joint resolution shall be
taken by yeas and nays.
s 90 Every act shall embrace but one
subject, aud matters properly connected
Herewith, which subject shall be expressed
in the title. But if any s1bject shall bl
embraced in an act which shall not be ex
pressed in the title, such act shall be voiC
only as to so much thereof as shall bo ex
pressed in the title.
s 81. Every act and joint resolution
shall be plainly worded, avoiding, as far a!
practicable, the use Of technical terms.
s %. No act shall ever be revised ol
amcuded by mere reference to its title bu
the act revised, or section amended shal
be set forth and published at full length
s %. The Legislative Assembly shal
not pass special or local laws, in any o
the following enumerated cases, that is t
say Regulating the jurisdiction and du
ties of justices of the peace and coustables
for the punishment Of crimes and misde
meanors regulating the practice in court
of justice providing for changing the
venue in civil and criminal cases granting
divorces changing the names of persons
for laying out, opening and working Of
highways, and for the election or appoint
ment Of supervisors vacating roads, tow
plats, streets, alleys, and public squares
summoning and empanneling grand ant