Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-26

, Sec. Is. Senators and Representative
shall, in all cases except treason, felony
= or breach of the peace, be priyiledged fror
? arrest during the session of the genera
{ assembly, and in going to or returnin
7 from the same; or for any speech or de
) bate in either house thew shall not b
questioned in any other place.
= Sec. II. Each House may punish by i'm
, prisopment, during its session. any persol
not member, who shall be guilty OF dis
! respect TO the House, by any disorderl.
or contemptuous behavior in its presence
Sec. 10. When vacancies happen in eithe
HOUSE, the Governor for the time beini
shall issue writs of election to NIL such va
csncies.
Sec. I6. Neither House shall, during III
session, adjourn without the consent o
the other, for more than three days, no
to any other place than than that In which
the two Houses shall be sitting.
Sec. II. Bills may originate in either
House; but NAV be amended, altered, ol
rejected by the other. No bill shall be
come a law which embraces more thar
one subject; that subject to be expressed
in the title. All acts which repeal, revive
or amend former laws, shall recite in theil
caption or otherwise, 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of the law repealed.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 iu the House where it originated, be-
| fore transmission to the other. No bill
shall become a law until it shall have been
read and passed, on three different days
in each House, and shall have received, on
its final passagein each House, the ascent
of a majority of all the members to which
that House shall be entitled under this
Constitution, and shall have been signed
by the respective speakers in open session
the 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 provl-
sions ofthis Constitution.
Sec. 10. After bill has been rejected,
no bill containing the same substance shall
| be passed into law during the same ses-
| sion.
See. 20. The style of the laws of this
| State shall he, - Be az enacted 6y the Gen.
erdL Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee" !"
No law of general nature shall take
effect until forty days after its passage,
unless the same, or the caption, shall state
that the public welfare reqsires that it
should take effect sooner.
Sec. q. Each House shall keep jour
nal of its proceedings, and publish 1t, ex-
cept such parts as the welfare of the State
may require to be kept secret. The ayes
and noes shall be taken in each house
npon the final passage of every bill of a
general character, and bills making ap-
propriations 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 as ought to be kept secret.
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 eBch General Assembly
elected after the ratification of this Con-
stitution as compensation for their ser
vices. But no member shall be paid for
more than seventy-five days of regular
session, or for more than twenty days of
any extra or called session I; or for any
day when absent from his seat in the Leg
islature, unless physically unable to at
tend. The Senators when sitting as
court of impeachment shall each receive
four dollars per day of actual attendance.
Sec. "a. No money shall be drawn from
the treasury but in consequence of appro-
priatiOns made by law and an accurate
statement of the receipts and expendi-
lures of the public money shall be at
tached to and published with the laws at
the rise Of each stated session Of the Cen
ersl Assembly.
Sec. 25. No person who heretofore hath
been, or may hereafter be, collector or
holder of pnblic moneys shall have seat
in either House of the General Assem-
bly,, or hold any other office under the
State Government until such person shall
have accounted for and paid into the
treasury all sums for which he may be
accountable or liable.
Sec. %. No judge Of any court of law
or equity, Secretary of State, Attorney
General, Register, Clerk of any Court
of Record, or person holding any Office
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shall have a seat in the General
Assembly; nor shall any person in this
State bold more than one lucrative office
at the same time: PTOUided, That no ap
pOintmenG in the militia, or TO the office
of Justice OF the Peace, shall be consid-
cred q lucrative Office, or operative as a
disqualification to a seat in either house
of the General Assembly.
Sec. II. Any member of either house OF
the General Assembly shall have liberty
to dissent from and protest against any
act or resolve which he may think iniu-
rious to the public or to any individual,
and to have the reasons for his dissent
entered on the journals.
Sec. Is. All property, real, personal or
mixed, shall be taxed, but the Legisla-
ture may except such as may be held by
the State, by counties, cities or towns,
and used exclusively for public or cOrpo
ration purposes, aud such as may be held
and used for purposes purely religious,
charitable, scientific, literary or educa-
tionsl, and shall except one thousand dol
lars worth of personal property in the
hands of each taxpayer, and the direct
product of the soil in the hands of the
producer and his immediate vendee. Ali
property shall be taxed according to its
value, that value to be ascertained in such
manner as the Legislature shall direct, so
that taxes shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. No one spscias of
property from which tax may be col |
leoted shall be taxed higher than any
other species of property of the same |
value. But the Legislature shall have |
power to tax merchants, peddlerB and |
privileges in such manner as they may, |
from time to time, direct.
The portion OF merchants capital used |
in the purchase of merchandise sold by |
him to non-residents and sent beyond the |
State, shall not be taxed at rate higher |
than the Gd UGtCTsm tax on property. a
The Legislature shall haye the power TO |
levy a tax upon incomes derived from
stocks and bonds that are not taxed Gd /
vdlorezR.
All male citizens Of this State over the |
age Of Jwenty-One years, except such per- |
sens as may be exempted by Law on &C |
count of ags or other intirmity, shall be |
liable to a poll tax of not less than fifty |
mum. Nor shall any county or corpora |
tion levy poll tax exceeding the amount |
levied by the State.
Sec. %. The General Assembly shall /
have power to authorize the several coun-
ties and incorporated towns in this State, /
to impose taxes for county and corpora
tiOn purposes respectively, in such man
ner as sbsll be prescribed by law; and all /
property shaii be taxed according to its
v-.g,r ha MI g.
regard TO State taxation. But the credit |
Of no county, city or town shall be given !
or loaned to OF in aid of any person. com
pany, association or corporation, except \
upon an election to be first held by the /
qualified voters OF such county, city or |
town, and the assent of three-fourths of /
the votes cast at said election. Nor shall /
any county. city or town become stock
holder With others in any company, asso-
citation or corpoFat;pn, except upon like |
election and the assent OF ike majority. |
But the counties of Granger, HaW |
kins, Hancock, Union, Campbell, |
Scott, Morgsa, Grundy, Sumner,
Smith, Fentress, Van Rnren, White, |
Putnam, Overton, Jackson, CVmber-
land, Anderson, Henderson, Wayne,
Marshall, Cooke, Coffee, Macon and the |
new county herein authorized to be es-
tablished out of fractions of Sumner, Ma
con and Smith counties, and Roane shall
be excepted out of the provisions of this |
section Of this Constitution, so far that |
the assent OF a majority OF the qualified |
voters of either ofsaid counties voting on |
the question shall be sufficient when the |
credit of such county is given or loaned |
to any person, association or corporation: |
PROVIDED, That the exception of the coun- |
ties above named shall not be in force be- |
yond the year one thousand eight hun /
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