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suitable provisions snd penalties, requiring
sheriffs and all other officers, whether State,
county, district or municipal, who shall COL
lect er receive. or whose official duty II Is, or
shall be. to collect, receive, hold or pay out
snv money belonging to- or which is, or shall
be for the Use Of the State or OF any county,
district, or municipal corporation, to make an
nual account and settlement therefor. Such
settlement. when made, shall be subject to ex-
captions, and take such direction. and have
only such force and effect as may be provided
by law: but in all cases, such settlement shall
be recorded. and 10 open to the examination
Of the people at such convenient place or places
as may be appointed by law.
2S. Bills and resolutions may originate in
either House, bat may be passed, amended or
rejected by the other.
90. No bill shall become law until 1t has
been fully and distinctly read, on three differ
ent DAYS in each House unless, in case OF urg-
ency. by vote of four-ffths of the mombers
present. taken by yeas and nays, on each bill.
this rule be dispensed with PToUided, IN al!
cases, that an engrossed bill shall be fully and
distinctly read in each House.
80. No act hereafter passed shall embrace
moro than one object and that shall be ex-
pressed In the title. But If any object shall be
embraced in an act, which is not so ex-
pressed. the act shall be void only as to 50
much thereof as shall not DO so expressed, ard
no law shall be revived, or amended, by refer
ence to its title only; but the law revived, or
the section amended, shall be inserted at large
in the new act. And no act of the Legislature,
except such as may be passed at the hrst
session under this Constitution, shall take effect,
until the expiration Of ninety days after its
passage. unless, the Legislature shall, by
vote Of two-thirds of the members elected to
each House, taken by yeas and nays, other
wso direct.
81. When bill, or Joint resolution, passed
by one House, shall be amended by the other,
the question on agreeing to the bill, or joint
resolution, as amended, shall be again voted
on. By yeas and nays, in the House by which
it was originally passed, and the result enter
ed upon its journal in all such cases. the
affirmative vote Of a majority Of all the mem
bers elected to such House shall be necessary
80. Whenever the words 4" a majority OF the
members elected TO either House of the Lcgis-
lature." or words Of like import, are used in
this Constitution, they shall be construed to
mean a majority Of the whole number of mem
bers to which each Housc is, at the time, enti-
tied, under the appcTtionment Of representa-
tion established by the provisions OF this Con-
stituton.
33. The members Of the Legislature, shall
each receive for their services the sum OF
four dollars per day, and ten cents for each
mile travelled in going to, and returning from,
the seat of government, by the most direct
route The Speaker Of the House of Delegates,
and the President Of the Senate shall zach re-
ceive an additional compensation Of two dollars
Per day for each day they shall act as presld-
ing officers. No other allowance or emolu-
ments. than that by this section provided,
shall. directly or indirectly be made or paid
10 tho members Of either House for postage,
stationery, newspapers, or any other purpose
whatever.
"a. The Legislature shall provide by law,
that the fuel, stationery and printing paper,
furnished for the use Of the State the copying,
printing, binding and distributing the laws
and journals and all other printing ordered by
the Legislature, shall be let by contract to the
lowest responsible bidder, bidding under
maximum price to be fixed by the Legislature;
and no member or officer thereof or officer of
the State, shall be interested, directly or indi-
rectly in such contract, but all such contracts
shall be subject to the approval Of the Cover
nor, and in case Of his disapproval Of any such
contract, there shall be a -e-let.iug Of the same
in such manner as may be prescribed by law
S5. The State Of West Virginia shall never
be made defendant in any court Of law or
equity.
&c. The Legislature shall have no power to
authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any
purpose, and shall pass laws to prohibit the sale
of lottery or gift enterprise tickets in this
State.
81. No law shall be passed after the election
Of any public officer which shall operate to ex-
tend the term Of his Office.
IS. No extra compensation shall be granted
or allowed to any public officer, agent, servant
or contractor, after the services shall have
been rendered or the contract made; nor shall
any Legislature authorize the payment Of any
claim or part thereof hereafter created against
the State, under any agreement or contract
made without express authority Of law: and
all such authorized agreements shall be null
and void. Nor shall the salary of any public
officer be increased or diminished, during his
term Of office, nor shall any such officer or 9TH
er person, or bis or their sureties, be released
from any debt or liability due to the State
Prorided The Legislature may make appro-
priatons for expenditures hereafter incurred,
in suppressing instruction, or repelling in
vssion.
80. The legislature shall not pass local or
special laws, in any one of the following emu
merated cases: that is to say, for
Granting divorces
Laying out, opening, altering, and working
reads or highways;
vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys
and public grounds;
Locating or changing county seats;
Regulating or changing county or district
affairs;
Providing for the sal0 of church property, or
property held for charitable uses;
Regulating the practice 10 courts Of justice; /;
Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or a.
mending the charter Of any city, town or VII
lage, containing population Of less than two
thousand; r.
Summoni1g or ampaunelins grand or petit
juries; ls
The opening OF conducting of any election,
or designating the place of voting
The sale, OF mortgage Of real estate. belong
ing to minors, or others under disability;
Chartering, licensing or establishing ferries
OF toll bridges; :~
Remitting fnee, penalties, o! forieitures;
Changing the law Of descent;
Regulating the rate Of interest;
Authorizing deeds to be made for lands sold