Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-28

corporate limits of Washington or Georgetown
into townships, not exceeding three. and create
township officers, and prescribe the duties there
of; but all township officers shall be elected by
the people of the townships respectively.
SEC. Z. Amd be 1t further enacted, That all
male citizens of the United States, above the
age of twenty-one years, who shall have been
actual residents of said District for three
months prior to the passage of this act. except
such as are non compos mentis and persons
convicted of infamous crimes, shall be entitled
to vote at said election, in the election district
or precinct in which he shall then reside, and
shall have so resided for thirty days immediate
~ preceding said election, and shall be eligible
to any office within the said District, and for all
subsequent elections twelve months prior resi-
dence shall be required to constitute voter !;
but the legislative assembly shall have no right
TO abridge or limit the right OF suffrage.
SEC. 8. And be 1T further enacted, That no
person who has been or hereafter shall be con-
yicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous
crime, nor any person who has been or may be
a collector or holder of public moneys who
shall not have accounted for and paid over,
upon final judgment duly recovered according
to law, all such moneys due FROM him, shall be
eligible to the legislative assembly or to any
Office of profit or trust in said District
SEC. 8. And be 1T further enacted, That
members of the legislative assembly, before
they enter upon their official duties, shall take
II do solemnly swear Tor affirm) that will sup
port the Constitution of the United States and
will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office
upon which am about to enter; and that
have not knowingly or intentionally paid or
contributed anything or made any promise in
the nature of bribe. to directly or Indirectly
influence any vote at the election at which
was chosen to fill the said Office, and have not
cepted. nor will accept or receive, directly or
indirectly, any money or other valuable thing
for any vote or influence that l may give or
withhold on any bill, resolution or appropria-
ton, or for any other official act.o Any mem
Der who shall refuse to take the oath herein
prescribed shall forfeit his office and every per-
son who shall be convicted of having sworn
falsely to rof violating his said oath shall forfeit
his office and be disqualified thereafter from
holding any Office Of profit or trust in said
District, and shall be deemed guilty of perjury,
and upon conviction shall be punished accord
ingly.
Sec TO- A1pd be it further enacted That
majority of the legislative assembly appointed
OF elected to each house shall constitute quo-
rum. The house of delegates shall be the
Judge of the election returns and qualification
of its members. Each house shall determine
the rules of its proceedings, and shall choose
its own officers. The governor shall call the
council to order at the opening of each new as
sembly; and the secretary of the District
shall call the house of delegates to order at the
opening of each new legislative assembly, and
shall preside over it until temporary presiding
officer shall have been chosen and shall have
taken his seat No member shall be expelled
by either house except by vote of two-thirds
of all the members appointed or elected to that
house. Each house may punish by imprison-
ment any person not a member who shall be
guilty of dsrespect to the house by disordery
or contemptuous behavior in its presence; but
no such Imprisonment shall extend beyond
twenty-four hours at one time Neither house
shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn
for more than two days. or to any other place
than that in which such house shall be sitting.
at the request. of any member the yeas and
nays shall be taken upon any question and
entered upon the journal. ~ ~
SEC IL. A,d be it further enacted, That
bills may originate in either house, but may
be altered, amended, or rejected by the other
and the final passage of all bills the vote shall
be by yeas and nays upon each bill separately
and shall be entered upon the journal, and no
bill shall become law without the concurrence
of majority of the members elected to each
house.
SEC. u lind be it further enacted, That
every bill shall be read at large on three diff
ferent days in each house No act shall en-
brace more than one subject, and that shall be
expressed in its title but if any subject shall
be embraced in an act which shall not be ex-
pressed in the title. such act shall be void only
as to so much thereof as shall not be so ex-
pressed in the title; and no act of the legisla-
tive assembly shall take effect until thirty days
after its passage, unless in case of emergency,
(Which emergency shall be expressed in the
preamble or body of the act,) the legislative
assembly shall by a vote of two-thirds of all
the members appointed or elected to each
house otherwise direct.
SEC. Ii. AYd be 1T further enacted, That no
money shall be drawn from the treasury OF the
District, except IN pursuance of an appropria-
ton made by law, and no bill making appro-
priations for the pay or salaries of the officers
of the District government shall contain any
provisions on any other subject.
SEC. IA And be 1t further enacted, That each
legislative assembly shall provide for all the APP
preparations necessary for the ordinary and con-
tingent expenses of the government of the
District until the expiration of the first fiscal
quarter after the adjournment of the regular
session. the aggregate amount of which shall
not be increased without a vote of two-thirds
of the members elected or appointed to each
house as herein provided, nor exceed the
amount of revenue authorized by law to be
raised in such time, and all appropriations,
general or special, requiring money to be paid
out of the District treasury, from funds belong
ing to the District shall end with such fiscal
debt of the District shall exceed five per cent
of the assessed property of the District, shall
be contracted, unless the law authorizing the
same shall at general election have been sub
United to the people and have received ma
jority of the votes cast for members of the
legislative assembly at such election. The Leg
islative assembly shall provide for the publica-
ton of said law in ut least two newspapers in
the Districts for three months, at least, before
the vote of the people shall be taken on the
same. and provision shall be made in the act
for the payment of the interest annually, as it
shall acrue, BY a tax levied for the purpose. or
from other sources of revenue, which law pro-
viding for the payment of such interest by
such tax shall be irrepealable until such debt
be paid Provided That the law Lowing the