The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-05-28

| thereof, and at no other time, unless provided
by this constitution. A majority Of the meHn-
oers elected to each house shall Constitute quo.
rum. Each house shall determine the rules a
its proceedings and be the Judge Of the electioa,
returns and qualifications of its members; shall
choose its own officers; and the senate shall
choose temporary president to preside when
tse lieutenant governor shall not attend 10 Pres
ident or shall act a. Governor. The secretary of
state shall call the house of representatives. to
order at the opening of each new assembly, and
preside over it until temporary presiding Off
ceI thereof shall have been chosen aud shall have
taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by
either house, except by vote of two-thirds of
all the members elected to that house, and no
member shall be twice expelled for the same
onense. Each house may punish by imprison-
ment any person, not a member, who shall be
guilty of disrespect to the house by disorderly
or contemptuous behavior in its presence. But
no such imprisonment shall extend beyond
| twenty-four hours at one time, unless the person
shall persist in such disordery contemptuous
behavior. = .--.
| SEC. 10. The doors of each house and of com.
mittees of the whole shall be kept open, except
IN such cases as, in the opinion of the house, re.
quire secrecy. Neither house shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than two
days, or to any other place than that in which
| the two houses shall be sitting. Each house
shall keepa journal of its proceedings, which
shall be published. In the senate at the request
| OF two members, and in the house at the request
| OF hve members, the yeas and nays shall be taken
| on any question, and entered upon the Journal
ANY two members of either house shall have the
liberty to dissent from and protest, In respectful
language, against any act or resolution which
they think injurious to the public or to any in.
dlvldual and have the reasons of their dissent
entered upon the journals.
STYLE OF LAWS, AND PASSAGE OF BILLS.
SEC H. The style of the laws of this State
shall be. "Be ii enacted By tie People Of tie State
Of Illinois represented IN the General As,emJly."
SEC. II. Bills may originate in either house,
but may be altered, amended or rejected by the
other; and on the final passage of all bills, the
vote shall be by yeas and nays, upon each bill
separately, and shall be entered upon the jour.
nal and no bill shall become law without the
concurrence of majority of the members elect.
ed to each house. . ..
SEC. Ii. Every bill shall be read at large on
three different days, in each house; and the bill
and all amendments thereto shall be printed be-
fore the vote is taken ON its final passage; and
every bill, having passed both houses, shall be
signed by the speakers thereof No act here.
after passed shall embrace more than one sub.
Ject and that shall be expressed in the title.
But If any subject shall be embraced in an act
which shall not be expressed in the title, such
act shall be void only as to 80 much thereof as
shall not be SO expressed +; and no law shall be
revived or amended by reference to its title only
but the law revived or the section amended shall
be inserted at length in the new act. And no
act of the general assembly shall take effect un.
til the first day of July next after its passage,
unless, IN case of emergency (which emergency
shall be expressed in the preamble or body Of
the act the general assembly shall, by vote of
two.thirds of all the members elected TO each
house, otherwise direct. ...
PRIVILEGES AND DISABILITIES
SEC. IA. Senators and representatives shall, in
all cases. except treason, felony or breach Of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during the ses.
sion of the general assembly, and in going to
and returning from the same: and for any speech
or debate in either house, they shall not be ques.
toned in any other place
SEC. 10. No person elected to the general as.
sem6y shall receive any civil appointment with.
in this state from the governor the governor
and senate, or from the general assembly during
the term for which he shall have been elected
and all such appointments, and all votes given
for any such members for any such office or ap.
pointnent shall be void nor shall any member
of the general assembly be interested, either di.
rectly or indirectly, in any contract with the
state, or any county thereof, authorized by any
law passed during the term for which he shall
have been elected, or within one year after the
expiration thereof.
PUBLIC MONEYS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
SEC l6. The general assembly shall make no
appropriation OF money cut of the treasury in
any private law. Bills making appropriations
Tor the pay of the members and officers of the
general assembly, and for the salaries of the Off.
GERS OF the government, shall contain no provi. |
sion on any other subject.
SEC II. No money shall be drawn from the
treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation
made by law, and on the presentation of a war.
rant issued by the auditor thereon; and no
money shall be diverted from any appropriation
made tor any purpose, or taken from any fund
Whatever, either by joint or separate resolution.
The auditor shall, within sixty days after the
adjournment of each session of the general 10.
sembly, prepare aud publish full statement of
all money expended at such session, specifying
the amount OF each item, and to whom and for
what paid. ' n..'T ~ ,'r
Sec Is. Each general assembly shall provide
Tor all the appropriations necessary for the ord.
nary and contingent expenses of the government
until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next regular ses.
sion, the aggregate amount of which shall not
be increased without q vote of two.thirds of the
members elected to each house, nor exceed the
amount of revenue authorized by law to be
raised in such time; and all appropriations, gen.
eral or special, requiring money to be paid out
OF the state treasury, from funds belonging to |
the state, shall end with such fiscal quarter
Pr0rMed, the State may, to meet casual deficits |
or failures in revenues. contract debts. never to
exceed in the aggregate two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and moneys thus borrowed
shall be applied to the purpose for which they
were obtained, or to pay the debt thus created,