The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-02-12

day of July next after the passage thereof
IL the General Assembly shall deem any law
of immediate importance, they may provide
that the same shall take effect by publication
in newspapers in the State.
% No divorce shall be granted by The Gen.
eral Assembly.
80 No lottery shall he authorized by this
State; nor shall the sale Of lottery tickets be
allowed.
80. Every act shall embrace but one sub
iect, and matters properly connected there
with; which subject shall be expressed in the
title. But il any subject shall be embraced in
an act which shall not be expressed in the title,
such act shall be void only as TO so much
thereof as shall not BE expressed in the title.
81. The General Assembly shall NOT pass
local or special laws in the following cases.
For the assessment and collection Of taxes
for State, county, or road purposes;
For laying out, opening, and working on
roads or highways;
For changing the names Of PERSONS;
For the incorporation of cities or towns;
For vacating roads, town plats, streets, al
leys, OF public squares;
In all the cases above enumerated, and in
all other cases where a general law can be
made applicable. all laws shall De general, and
of u ,iform operation throughout the State.
80. 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 any claim the subject matter of which
shall not have been provided for by pre-exist-
ing laws, and no public money or property
shall be appropriated for local. or private pnr-
poses, unless such appropriation, compesa
ton, OF claim be allowed by two thirds of the
members elected to each branch of the Gener-
al Assembly.
33. Members of the General Assembly shall,
before they enter upon the duties or their re-
spective Offices, take and subscribe the follow
ing oath or affirmation: III do solemnly swear,
or affirm Gas the case NAV be.) that | will sup
port the Constitution of The United States. aud
the Constitution Of the State OF Iowa. and that
will faithfully discharge the duties of Sena-
tor. COR Representative, as the case may be,)
according to the best of my ability'' And
members of the General Assemblvare hereby
empowered to administer to each other the
said. cath or Affirmation.
81. The General Assembly shall. in the
years 1856, 1862, 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1875,
q nd every ten years thereafter. cause an emu
meration to be be made of all the white in
habtdnts of the State.
80. The number of Senator's and epresen-
tatives shall, at the next session following each
period of making such enumeration, and the
session following each United States census,
be fixed by law, and apPortioneI among the
several counties, according to the number OF
white inha bitants in each.
30 The Senate shall not consist of more than
fifty members. nor the House of Representa-
tiyes of more than one hundred.
81. When Congressional, Senatorial, or
Representative District shall be composed of
two or more counties, 1t shall not be entirely
separated By any county belonging to another
district; and no county shall be divided in fer
ming Congressional, Senatorial, or Repre-
sentative District.
3S. In all elections by the General Assem-
by, the members thereof shall vote viva voce;
and the votes shall be entered on the journal.
49, The annual salary of the Governor sh II
no. exceede twenty hundred dollars; Sec
rotary, Treasurer, and Auditor of State, fifteen
hundred dollars each; Judges of the Supreme
Cour'. Twenty-Five hundred dollars each; Jndg-
es OF The District Courts, two thousand dollars
each. Respectfully submitted.
j. A. PARVlN, Chairman.