Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-12
NO. 10.
AMENDMENTS TO TIE CONSTlTU-
TTON.

ed in the Senate by Hon. c. J. Morris.
Resofred, Two thirds of both houses concur
ing that the following be proposed as amend
ments of the constitution of the State, which
shall become part thereof when approved
and adopted in the manner provided by the
constitution, viz.
ARTICLE IS.
Section eleven of article one of the consti-
tuition of this State shall be amended by insert
ing after the word CONTRACTS" in the second
line as follows s'or making any irrecovable
grant OF special privileges or immunities."
Section nine of article four, shall be amended
by adding at the end thereofthe following pro-
visions Every bill shall be read at large or
three different days in each house, and the bill
and all amendments thereto shall be printed
before the vote is taken on its final passage.
The vote shall be by yeas and nays on each
bill separately, and no bill shall become a law
without the concurrence of a majority of the
members elected to each house. No bill here
after passed shall embrace more than one sub
| ject, and that shall be expressed in the title,
and no law shall be revived or amended by
reference TO its title only, but the law revived
or amended, shall be inserted at length in the
new act.
ARTICLE II.
SEC. /. The members of the Legislature
shall receive for their services the sum CT one
hundred and fifty dollars for the first year af-
ter the amendment, and ten cents for each
mile necessarily Travelled in going to and re-
turning from the seat of government, and
thereafter such compensation as shall be pre-
scribed by law and no other allowance or en-
olument, directly or indirectly for any purpose
whatever, except the sum of fifty dollars per
annum to each member, which shall be in full
for postage, stationery, newspapers and all
other incidental expenses and perqulsites.
But no change shall be made in the compensa-
| ton of members of the Legislature during
the term for which they may have been elected.
The pay and mileage allowed to each member
of the Legislature shall be certified BY the
President of the Senate and the Speaker OF
the House of their respective branches, and
entered on the journals and published at the
close of the session.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall never grant
or authorize extra compensation, fee or allow
ance to any public officer, agent, servant or
contractor, after service has been rendered or
a contract made, nor authorize the payment of
any claim, or part ther~of, hereafter created
against the States under any agreement or
contract made without express authority OF
law, and all such unauthorized agreements or
contracts shall be null and void. Provided,
the Legislature may make appropriations
for expenditures incurred in suppressing in
surrection or repelling invasion.
SEC. 0. The Legislature shall provide by
law, that the fuel and stationery furnished for
the use of the State, the printing and binding
the laws and journals, and all other printing
ordered by the Legislature, with the material
for the same, shall be let by contract to the
lowest responsible bidder, but the Legislature
shall fix maximum price, and no members
thereof other officer of the State shall be di-
rectly or indirectly interested in such contract.
But all such contracts shall be subject to the
approval of the Governor and Council, and If
disproved by them. shall be relet in such MAN.
ner as shall be prescribed by law.
SEC. 4. No teacher, State, County, town or
district school officer, shall be interested in
the sale, proceeds or profits of any book, ap-
paratus or furniture, used or to be used, in any
school in this State, with which such officer or
teacher may be connected, under such penal
ties as may be provided by the Legislature.
SEC. 5. The Legislature shall have no
power to authorize lotteries orgift enterprises,
for any purpose, and shall pass laws to pro-
hibt the sale of lottery or gift enterprise
tickets in this State.
SEC. 6. The Legislature shall not pass To-
cal or special laws in any of the following
enumerated cases, viz:
For granting divorces.
Changing the names of persons or places.
Laying out, opening, altering and working
roads or highways.
Vacating roads, town plots, streets, alleys
and public grounds.
Locating or changing County seats.
Regulating County and township affairs.
Regulating the practice in Courts of JUS
tice.
Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of
Justices of the Peace, Police Magistrates and
Constabes.
Providing for changes OF venue in civil and
criminal cases.
Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or
changing or amending the charter of any city
town or village,
Summoning and impannelling Grand and
Petit Jures.
Providing for the management of Common
Schools.
Regulating the rate of interest on money.
The opening and conducting of any election,
or designating the place of voting,
The sale or mortgage of real estate belong
ing to minors or others under disability.
The protection Of game or fish.
Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges.
Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures.
Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, per
centage, or allowance of public officers, dur
ing the term for which said officers are elect
ed or appointed.
Changing the law of descent.
Granting to any corporation, association or
individual the right to lay railroad tracks, or
\ amending existing chapters Tor such purpose.
Granting to any corporation, association OF
individual any special or exclusive privilege,
immunity or franchise whatever.
For all other cases where general law can
be made applicable, no special law shall be
enacted.
> SEC T. The Legislature shall have no
power to release or extinguish, in whole or in
part, the Indebtedness, liability or obligation
of any corporation or individual to this State,
or to any municipal corporation therein.
. ARTICLE 10.
CORPORATIONS.
SEC. |. No corporation shall be created
by special law, or its charter extended,
changed or amended, except those for char
tabl, educational, penal or reformatory pur-
poses, which are to be and remain under the
patronage and control of the State, but the
Legislature shall provide, by general laws
for the organization Of all corporations here
after to be created.
le SEC. 2. All existing charters or grants Of
special or exclusive privileges, under which
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