Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-03-04
House, they shall no be questioned In

any other place.
Sec. II. Each House may punish by
Imprisonment during its session, any
person not a member, who shall be
guilty of disrespcct TO the House, by |
any disordcrly or any contemptuous !
behavior in its presence.
Sec. Is. When vacancies happen in |
either House, the Governor for the !
time being shall issue writs Of election
to fill such vacancies.
Sec. 10. Neither House shall, during |
its session, adjourn without the con-
sent of the other, fer more than three |
days, nor to any other place than that
in which the two Houses shall be sit
ting.
Sec. Il. Bills may originate in either
Holse but may be amended, altered,
or rejected by the other. No bill shall
become law which embraces more
than one subject that subject to be
expressed in the title. All acts which
repeal, revive, or amend former laws,
shall recite In their caption or other
wise, the title or substance Of the law
repealed, revived or amended.
Sec. IS. Every bill shall be read once
on three different days, and be passed
each time in the House where it orig
mated, before transmission to the other.
No bill shall become II law until it shall
have been read and passed on three
different days in each House, and shall
have received, on its final passage in
each House, the assent of the majority
of all the members to which that
House shall be entitled under this Con-
stitution, and shall have been signed
by the respective Speakers, in open
scssion-thc fact of such signing to be
noted on the journal and shall have
received the approval of the Governor,
or shall have been otherwise passed
under the provisions of this Constitu-
ton.
Sec. 10. After bill has been re-
jccted, no bill containing the same
substance shall be passed into law
during the same session.
Sec. 20. The style of the laws Of this
State shall be. ''Bc it enacted by the
General Ass emily of the State of Ten
nessee." No law of a general nature
shall take effect until forty days after
its passage, unless the same or the cap
ton thereof shall state that the public
welfare requires that it should take CT
feet sooner.
Sec. q. Each House shall keep o
journal of its proceedings, and pub
of the State may require to be kept
secret; the ayes and noes shall be taken
| in each House upon the final passage
of every bill OF q general character,
| and bile making appropriations Of
public moneys; and the ayes and noes
| of the members on any question, shall,
at the request of any five OF them, be
entered on the journal.
Sec. %. The doors of each House
and of Committees of the Whole shall
| be kept open, unless when the business
shall be such ~ ought TO be kept SC
| cret
Sec. %. The sum OF four dollars per
| day, and four dollars for every twenty
| five miles travelling TO and from the
seat of Government, shall be allowed
| to the members of each General As
| sembly elected after the ratification OF
this Constitution, as a compensation
for their services. But no member
shall be paid for more than seventy
| five days of regular session, or for
more than twenty days of any extra
o. calleH session; or for any day when
absent from his seat in the Legislature,
unless physically unable to attend
The Senators when when sitting as q
court of impeachment shall each re-
|
tendance.
See. "a. No money shall be drawn
from the Treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by law and
an accurate statement of the receipts
and expenditures of the public money
shall be attached to and published with
the laws at the rise of each stated ses
sion of the General Assembly.
Sec. %. No person who heretofore
hath been, or may hereaster be, col
lector or holder of public moneys, shall
have q seat in either house of the Gen
eral Assembly, or hold any other oiiic'
. under the State Government, unit
such person shall have accounted TO
and paid into the Treasury all sums
for which he may be accountable o.
liable.
Sec. 20. No Judge OF any court o
law or equity, Secretary Of state, AT
torney General, Register, Clerk of am
Court of Record, or person holding
any Office under the authority Of thu
United States, shall have a seat in tn,
General Assembly; nor shall any per
son in this State hold more than ont
lucrative office at the same time: Pro
vided, that no appointment in the mil
, itia, or TO the Office of Justice of tn
| u
Office, or operative rs disqualification
to seat in either House OF the Gener
al Assembly.
Sec. %. Any member Of either House .
the General Assembly shall have liberty t
> dissent frcm and protest again,t any act o
+ resolve which he may think injurious to tn
public or TO any individual, and 10 have th
reasons Tor his dissent catered on the .olI
nIls.
! Sec. 2s. All property, real, personal Q
= mixed, shall be taxed, hut the Legislator
{ may except rush rs may be held by the State
r by counties, cities or towns, and used exch
sively for public or corporation purposes
= and such as may be held and used for pun
, poses purely religious, charitable, scientific
+ literary or educational, and shall except on
, thousand dollars worth OF personal propcrt
in the hands OF each taxpayer, and the d
rect product Of the soil in the hands OF Ii
= producer and his immediate Nendoe. A
, property shall be taxed according to its yalu'
that TO be nscertained in such manner rs th
LEGISLATURE shall direct, so that taxes sha
7 be equal and uniform throughout the State
! No one species Of property from which u ia
. may be collected shall be taxed higher tina
Q any other species Of property OF the sam
: value. But the Legislature shall have Pow
T CT TO tax merchants, pedd.ers and privilege
/
y time, direct. The portion OF merchant
? capital uscd in the pnrchase of merchandis
: sold by him to non-resilentr and sent be
t You'd the State, shall not be taxed at rat
: higher than the iydlerem tax on property
The legislature shall have the power 70 lev
= a tax upon incomes derived from stocks an
A bonds that are not taxed al yalorem. All mai
r citizens Of this State over the age of twenty
4 one years, except such persons as 1ay /
I exempted by Law ON account OF age or oihG
y inhrnity, shall he liable to a poll tax OF NJ
Il less than fifty cents nor more than one dolla
q per annum. Nor shall any county or corpS
!. ration levy o poll tax exceeding the anmouI
!. levied by the State.
= Sec. 70. The General Assembly shall hay
; power TO authorize the several counties an
Incorporated towns in this State, 10 impos
!. taxes for county AID corporation purpo.s
Q respectively, in such manner as shall be pr
= scribed by law, and all property shall Z
i taxed aecordingttO its value, upon the princ