The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-05-25


two days, or to any other place than that in which
| the two Houses shall be sitting. Each House
shall keep journal. Any tvomembers of either
House shall have liberty to dissent from, and
| protest, in respectful language, against any act
or resolution which they think injurious to the
public or to any individual, and have their rea-
sons of their dissent entered upon the journals
STYLE OF LAWS, AND PASSAGE OF BILLS.
See II The style of the laws of this state shall
be, BE il enacted By the People Of the State of
| Illinois represented in the General Assembly"
sFc. IL. Bills may originate in either House.
but may be altered, amended rejected. by tn,
other and on final passage of all bills, the
vote shall be by yeas and nays, upon each bill
separately, and shall be entered upon the journa
| and no bill shall become a law without the con
curreaee of q majority Of the members elected to
| each House
See. Is Every bill shall be read at large on
three different days. in each House; and the oiii
| and all the amendments thereto shall ne Priheeu
before the vote 10 taken on It's hnai passage anu
every bill having passed both Houses, shai oe
signed by the speaker thereof. No act hereafter
passed sha all em brace more than one subject, ana
| that shall be expressed in the title bur II ri
subject shall be embraced IN an set whioh g. |
not be expressed in the title, sueh ae T. e. |
void onIv as TO so much thereof IS shsii no' 0e ~
! ,n,assa5 and no law shall be revived or anehu-
al nv reference to its title only oot 'he III" reNi
| - ~ ,ba section amended shall be inserted At
~ in the new act. And no act of the Zen
- Assembly shall take effect until the frat day
of July next after its passage, unless, in case OF
emergency, (which emergency shall he expressed
in the preamble or body of the actl the q neral
Assembly shall, by q vote of two thirds of all the
members elected 60 each House, otherwise direct.
PRIVILEGES AND DISABILITIES.
SEC u. Senators and Representatives shall, in
all cases. except treason, felony, or breach of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during the SEES
\. Il -,
and returning from the same; and for any
speech or debate in either House, they shall not
be questioned in any other place.
SEC. Is. No person elected to the General As
sembly shall receive any civil appointment within
| 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 gwen
| for any such members for any such office or ap-
pointment, shall be void nor shall any member
| of the General Assembly be interested, either dt-
rect!y 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 year after the
| expiration thereof.
PUBLIC MONEYS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
! SEC Is. The General Assembly shall make ne
| appropriations Of money out Of the Treasury IN
! any private law. Bills making appropriations
/ for the pay of the members and Off GERS of the
officers of the Government, shall contain no pro
| vision any other subject
SEC II. No money shall be drawn from the
Treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation
made by law, and the presentation OF awar,
rant issued by the Auditor thsreOu and no
money shall be diverted from any appropriation
made for any purpose, or taken from any fund
! whatever, either by joint or separate restitution
| The Auditor shall within sixty days after the
| adjournment of each session of the General As
sem bly,, prepare and publish full statement OF
! all money expended st such session, specifying
the amount of each item, and TO whom and tor
! what paid
See. IS Each General Assembly shall provide
for ali the appropriations necessary Tor the ordi-
nary and contingent expenses of the Government
until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next regular sess-
ion. the aggregate amount of which shall! not De
increased without vote of two-thirds OF the
members elected to each House, nor exceed the
amount of revenue authorized by law 30 be raised
in such time; and all appropriations, general or
special, re uiring money to he paid out of the
state treasury, fron funds belonging TO the state
| shall end with such fiscal quarter Proridcd, the
state may. TO meet casual deficits or failures IN
| revenues, contract debts, never to exceed III the
aggregate two hundred and fifty thousand co.
! lars and moneys thus borrowed shall be applied
| TO the purpose for which they were obtained, or
| TO pay the deb. thus created, and 10 no other
purpose and 70 other debt except for the pur-
pose of repeIliug invasion, suppressing insurree-
ton, defending the state in war for payment
of hich the faith of the stale shall be pledged l
shall be contracted. unless the law authorizing
the same shall. at a general election, have beet
submitted to the people, and have received a ma
jorIty OF the votes cast for members OF the Ten
eral Assembly at such election. The Heneral
Assembly shall provide for the publication of
said law. for three months, at least, before the
| vote of the PEG pie shall be tsken upon the same;
| and provision shall be made at the tune, Tor tue
payment of the iuteres. annually as II shall se-
crue, by a tax levied for the purpose, or from
| other sour ces of revenue which law, providing
for the pay Gent of SUCH interest by such tax,
shall be irrereslable until such debi he paid
! Ind procided. further, that the law levylng the
tax shall he submitted to the people with the
Law authorizing the debt to he contracted
/ SEC 49, The General Assembly shall never
grant or authorize extra compensation, fee or al
low anoe to any public officer, agent, servant az
contractor. sitter service has been rendered tr a
contract made authorize the payment OF any
claim. or part thereof, hereafter created against
the state under any agreement or contract maa'
without express authority OF law and al suct
unaut horixed agreements contracts shall ee
null and void Propidsd, the General Assemb J
may make appropriations for expenditures II
cured IN suppressing instruction or repeil ne
inyssions.
SEC. 90 The state shall never pay, assume Of
become responsible for the debts or liabilities Of
or in any manner give, loan or extend its credit
TO. or in aid of any public or other corporation,
| association or individual.
/ PAY OF MEMBERS
/ SEC. q. The members of the Genera, Assem-
/ bly, shall receive for their services the sum OF
6ve dollars per day, during the frat session hers
under this Constitu tipn. aud ten cents for each
mile ueces ariiy Travelled III going to- and return
/ ing from the seat oil government, 70 be computed
/ by the Auditor of Public Accounts and thereat-
/ ter such compensation shall be prescri bed by
/ law, and no other allowance or emoiumeut, di-
I recty indirectly, for any purpose whatever,
+ except the of fifty dollars per session to
each member which shall he in fuI for postage.
/ stationery, newspapers, aud all other ncidenta
expenses and peruulsites, but change shall be
made in the compen station Of members of the
General Assembly during the term for which
they may have been elected. The pay and
mileage allowed to each member of the General
Assembly shall he certified by the speakers OF
their respective Houses, and entered on the jour
mails, and published at the close of each session.
SPECIAL LEGISLATION PROHIBITED.
SEC %. The General Assembly shall not pass
local or special laws in any Of the following
enumerated cases, that Is to say For
Granting divorces
Changing the names of persons or places
Laying out, opening, altering and working
| ruats highways
Vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys and
public grounds;
Locating changing county seats:
Regulating county or township affairs
Regulating the practice in courts ofjusflce
i Regulating the jurisdiction and duties OF
Justices Of the Peace, Police Magistrates an
Constables
! Providing for changes of venue in civil and
! criminal cases
/ Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or
changing amending the charter of any town.
city village;
( Providing for the election of members of the
Board of Supervisors in townships, Incorporated
towns cities
! summoniDg or impauneiing grand petit