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Amendment. to the c Constitution.

Resolved, Two thirds of both houses concur
1g that the following be proposed as ame!u
lents of the constitution of the State winch
hall become part thereof when approved ana
dopted in the manner provided by tue eons'i-
ution, viz.
Section eleven of article one OF the constitu- |
ion of this State shall be amended by inserting
.fter the word contracts" in the second line
Is follows: "or making any irrevocable grant
# special privileges or immunities" Section
line of article four, shall be amended by add
ny at the end thereof the following provis-
ons: Every bill shall be read at large on three
lifferent days in each house, and the bill and
I'll amendments thereto shall be printed before
he vote is taken on its final passage. The vote
hall be by yeas and nays on each bill separate
y, and no bill shall become law without the
Concurrence of majority of the members
elected TO each house. Nc bill hereafter passed
shall embrace more than one subject 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 the section
amended, shall be inserted at length in the
new act.
ARTICLE IA.
SEC. 1. The members of the Legislature
shall receive for their services the sum OF one
hundred and fifty dollars for the first year al
ter the adoption of this amendment, and ten
G ants for each mile necessarily Travelled In 60
ing to and returning from the seat OF govern
ment, and thereafter such compensation as
hall be prescribed by law, and no other allow
ace or emoument, directly or indirectly for
any purpose whatever, except the sum of fifty
dOars per annum to each member, which
shat be in full for postage, stationery, news
papes and all other incidental expenses and
perqusites. But no change shall be made in
the compensation OF members of the Legisla-
ture DUNG the term for which they may have
been elected, the pay and mileage allowed to
each mehber of the Legislature shall be certi-
: fed by the President of the Senate and the
speaker of Hoses of their respective branches,
ana a enseref On he journals and published at
Sec. 2. The Legisature shall never grant
or authorize extra condensation, fee or allow
ance to any public officer, agent. servant or
contractor, after service hasSeen rendered or q
contract made, nor authorize she payment OF
any claim, or part thereof, hereafter created
against the State under any agreement or con.
tract made without express autherity of law
and all such unauthorized agreemsats or con.
tracts shall be null and void. PROVIDED, the
Legislature may make appropriations fo- ex
penditures incurred in suppressing insurree
ton or repelling invasion.
SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide b,
law, that the fuel and stationery furnished fO
the use of the State, the printing and binding
the laws and journals, and al! other printing
ordered by the Legislature, with the materia
for the same, shall be let by contract to the
lowest responsible bidder, but the Legislature
shall fix maximum p4ice, and no mamberl
thereof or other officer Of the State shall bedi-
rectly or indirectly interested in such cortract.
But all such contracts shall be subject to the
apprerai Of the Governor and Coupeil. and il
Improved by them, shall be reiet in such man
ner as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 4. No teacher, State, County, town OF
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 OF
teacher may be connected, under such penal.
ties as may be provided by the Leg islature.
SEC. 5. The Legislature shall have no pow
er to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises, fol
the sale of lottery or gift enterprise tickets in
this State.
SEC g. The Legislature shall not pass local
or special laws in any of the following enumer.
ated 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 Justice.
Regulating the jurisdiction and duties oil
Justices OF the Peace, Police Magistrates and
Constables.
Providing for changes of venue in civil and
incorporating cities, towns or villages OF
changing or amending the charter Of any city
town or village.
= summoning and impanne]ling Grand and
Petit Juries.
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 belonging
to minors, or others under disability.
The protection of game or fish.
Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges.
Kemltting fines, penalties or forfeitures
Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, per
centage, or allowance of public officers, during
ttffhm for which said officers are elected or
Changing the law of descent
Granting to any corporation, association or
individual the right to lay railroad tracks, or
amending existing charters for such purpose.
Granting to any corporation, association or
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
SEC. z. The Legislature shall have no pow
er 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. l. No corporation shall be created by
special laws, or its charter extended, changed
or amended, except those for charitable, edu-
cational, penal or reformatory purposes, 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 hereafter to be created.
SEC. 2. All existing charters or grants of
special or exclusive privilege, under which Or
ganization shall not have been in operation
h tns ia
takes effect, shall thereafter be void.
SEC 3. The Legislature shall provide, by
law, that in all.elections for directors or man
ayers of Incorporated companies every stock
holder shall have the right to vote, in person
or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock
are directors or managers, to be elected, or to
cumulate said shares, and give one candidate
as many votes as the number of directors null
tiplied by the number Of his shares of stock,
shall equal, or to distribute them on the same
principle among as many candidates as he
shall think fit, and such directors or managers
shall not be elected in any other way.
SEC. The Legislature shall pass no law
granting the right to construct and operate a
street railroad, within any city, town or incor-
porated village. without requiring the consent
Of the local authorities having the control of
the street or highway proposed to be occupied
by such street railroad.
RAILROADS.
SEC. Every railroad corporation organiz-
ed or doing business in this State, under the
law or authority thereof shall have and main
tain public office or place in this State for the
transaction of its business, where transfers of
stock shall be made and in which shall be kept
for public inspection, books, in which shall be
recorded the amount of capital stock subscrib-
ed, and by whom the names of the owners of
its stock, and the amounts owned by them re-
spectively, the amount of stock paid in and by
whom, the transfer OF said stock, the amount
OF its assets and liabilities. and the names and
place of residence of its officers. The directors
OF every railroad corporation shall annually
make report, under oath, to the Secretary of
State, of all their acts and doings, which re-
port shall include such matters relating to
railroads as may be prescribed by law. And
the Legislature shall pass laws enforcing by
suitable penalties, the provisions of this Sec
ton.
SEC. The rolling stock, and all other NOV
able property belonging to any railroad COM
pany or corporation in this State, shall be con-
sidered personal property, and shall be liable
to to execution and sale in the same manner as
the personal property of individuals, and tho
Legislature shall pass no law exempting any
such property from execution and sale.
SEC. No railroad corporation shall con-
soidate its stock, property or franchises with
any. other railroad corporation owning par
allel or competing line, and in no case shall
any consolidation take place except upon pub
lie notice given, of at least sixty days, to all
in such manner as may be pro-
vided by law. A majority of the directors of
any railroad corporation now incorporated or
hereafter to be incorporated by the laws of this
State shall be citizens and residents of this
State.
SEC. No railroad corporation shall issue
any stock or bonds, except for money labor or
property actually received and applied to the
purposes for which such corporation was Gre
ated, and all stock dividends, and other ficti-
tious increase of the capital stock or indebted
ness of any such corporation, shall be void.-
The capital stock of no railroad corporation