The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-13
COLUMBIA, S. G., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 49, 1868.

tendance of absent members in such
manner and under such penalties as
may be provided by law.
SEC. 10. Each House shall choose
its own officers, determine it's rules of
proceeding, punish its members for
disorderly behavior, and, with the
concurrence of two-thirds, expel a
member, but not a second time for
the same cause.
Sec. 16. Each House may punish
by imprisonment, during its sitting,
any person not q member, who shall
be guilty of disrespect to the House
by any disorderly or contemptuous
behavior in its presence; or who,
during the time of its sitting, shall
threaten harm to body or estate of
any member for anything said or
done in either House, or who shall
assault any of them therefor, or who
shall assault or arrest any witness or
other persons ordered to attend the
House, in his going thereto or re-
turning therefrom, or who shall
rescue any person arrested by order
of the House: Prouided, That such
term of imprisonment shall not ex-
tend beyond the session of the Ge-
neral Assembly.
SEC. II. The members of both
Houses shall be protected in their
persons and estates during their at
tendance on, going to, and returning
from, the General Assembly, and ten
days previous to the sitting, and ten
days after the adjournment thereof.
But these privileges shall not be ex-
tended so as to protect any momber
who shall be charged with treason,
felony, or breach of the peace.
SEC, Ii. Bills for raising O revenue
shall originate in the House of Rep
resentatives, but may be altered,
amended or rejected, by the Senate;
and all other bills may originate in
either House. and may be amended,
altered or rejected, by the other.
Sec. 10. The style of all laws shall
be, "Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same" y
SEC. 20. Every act or resolution
having the force of law shall relate to
but one subject, and that shall be ex-
pressed in the title. 'f 7 d,
Sec. 81. No bill shall have the
force of law until it shall have been
read three times, and on three several
days in each house-has had the
great seal of the State affixed to it, ,
and has been signed in the Senate
House by the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives..
Sec. %. No money shall be drawn
from the treasury but in pursuan ce
of an appropriation made by law;
and regular statement and account
OF the receipts and expenditures of
all public moneys shall be published
annually in such manner as may be
by law directed.
SEC. %. Each member of the first
General Assembly under this Consti-
tuition shall receive six dollars per
diem while in session, and the further
sum OF twenty cents for every mile
of the Ordinary route of travel in
going to and returning from the place
where such session is held, after
which they shall receive such COM
pepsation as shall be fixed by law;
but no General Assembly shall have
the power to increase the compensa-
tlon of its own members. And when
convened in extra session they shall
receive the same mileage and per
diem compensation as are fixed by
law for the regular. session, and none
other.
SEC. "a. In NIL elections by the
General Assembly, or either House
thereof, the. members shall vote
'olod ooce,," and their votes thus
given shall be entered upon the jour
nal of the House to which they re-
spectiyely belong.
SEC. 20. Neither House, during the
session of the General Assembly,
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