The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-04

ernor elected on the second Tuesday in No
vember, 1870, shall be inaugurated; and
forever thereafter the General Assembly
shall meet on the first Monday in January
next ensuing the election, at which session
thereof the Governor shall be inaugurated.
SIC. 8. No person shall be- Representa-
tive unless he shall be citizen Of the United
States, Of the age OF twenty-one years, and
shall have been Q citizen OF this State for
three years, and a resident inthe county be
represents one year Immediately preceding
the election.
SEC. To- No person shall be q Senator
unless he shall be a citizen Of the United
States, Of the age ofthirty years, and shall
have resided three years IN this State, and
one year in the county or district immedi-
ately preceding the election. No Senator
or Representative shall, during the time for
which he was elected, be eligible to any
Office or place Of trust, the appointment to
which IL vested in the Executive or the
General Assembly, except to the Office Of
trustee Of a literary institution.
SEC. IL. The Senate and House Of Rem
re~sentatiyes, when assembled, shall each
choose o Speaker and its other officers, be
judges Of the qualifications and elections OF
its members, and sit upon its own adjourn
ments from day to day. Not less than two
thirds Of all the members to which each
house shall be entitled shall constitute a
quorum to do business; but a smaller mum.
Der may adjourn from day to day, and may
be authorized by law to compel the attend
ance of absent members.
SEC. IL. Each house may determine the
rules of its proceedings, punish its members
for ~disorderly behavior, and, with the con
currence Of two-thirds, expela member, but
not a second time for the same %ofFense; and
shall have all other powers necessary for a
branch of the Legislature Of a free State.
SEC. 10. Senators and Representatives
shall, in all cases except treason, felony or
breach of the peace, be privileged from ar
rest during the session Of the General AS
sembly, and in going to or returning from
the same; and for any speech or debate in
either house they shall not be questioned in
any other place.
SIC. IA. Each house may punish, by i'm
prisonment during its session, any person
not a member, who shall be guilty Of disre-
spect to the house by any disorderly or any
contemptuous behavior in its presence.
SEC. Is. When vacancies happen in either
house, the Governor, for the time being,
shall issue writs Of election to gil such va
%cancies.
SEC. l6. Neither house shall, during its
session, adjourn without the consent Of the
other for more than three days, nor to any
other place than that in which the two
houses shall be sitting.
SEC. II. Bills may originate in either
house; but may be amended, altered or re-
jected by the other. No bill shall become
a law which embraces more than one subject;
that subject to be expressed in the title. All
acts which repeal, revive or amend former
laws, shall recite in their caption or other
wise the title or substance of the law re-
pealed, revived or amended.
Sec. Is. Every bill shall be read nnce on
three different days, and be passed each
time in 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
passage in each house, the assent of a ma
jority of all the members to which that
house shall be entitled under this Constitu-
ton, and shall have been signed by the re-
spective 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 provisions Of this Consti-
tuition.
SEC. 10. After a bill has been rejected no
bill containing the same substance shall be
passed into a law during the same session.
SEC. 20. The style Of the laws of this
State shall be, "Be IL enacted 6y the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee"
No law of q general nature shall take effect
until forty days after its passage, unless the
same or the caption shall state that the pub
lie welfare requires that it should take effect
sooner.
SEC. 81. Each house shall keep a journal
Of its proceedings, and publish it, except
such parts as the welfare of the State may
require to be kept secret. The ayes and
noes shall be taken in each house upon the
final passage Of every bill ola general charac-
ter, and bills making appropriations Of public
moneys and the ayes and noes Of the mem.
bers on any question shall, at the request Of
any five Of them, be entered on the journal.
SEC. q. 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-iiv miles
travelling to and from the seat Of govern,
ment, shall be allowed to the members Of
each General Assembly elected after the rat.
~ification Of this Constitution, as q compen.
sation for their services. But no member
shall be paid for more thar seyenty-fvs day
Of a regular session, or for more than twenty
; days Of any extra or called session, or fol
any day when absent from his seat in thu
Legislature, unless physically unable to at
tend. The Senators, when sitting asa couri
|, of impeachment, shall each receive foul
dollars per day Of actual attendance.
SEC. "a. No money shall be drawn from
the treasury but in consequence Of appro
a priations made by law; and an accurate
statement of the receipts and expenditures
Of the public money shall be attached to anl
published with the laws at the rise Of eacl
. stated session of the General Assembly.
Sec. IS. No person who heretofore hatl
/ been, or may hereafter be, a collector o.
holder Of public moneys, shall have q sea
in either house Of the General Assembly
or hold any other Office under the Stat
Government, until such person shall havI
accounted for and paid into the Treasur,
t all sums for which he may be accountable O
: liable.
: Sec. &c. No Judge of any court Of law o
equity, Secretary Of State, Attorney Gen
eral, Register, Clerk. Of any Court Of Re
cord, or person holding any Office under tn,
0 authority of the United States, shall havl
$ o seat in the General Assembly nor shal
any person in this State hold moro thai
one lucrative Office at the same time Pro
S uided, That no appointment in the militi
: or to the Office of Justice Of the Peace shal
I be considered a lucrative Office, or operativ
t as q disqualification TO a seat in either hous
8 Of the General Assembly.
Sec. q. Any member Of either house Q
the General Assembly shall have liberty I
d dissent from and protest against any act O
resolve which he may think injurious to th
Q public or to any individual, and to have tn
reasons for his dissent entered on the jour
nails.
Sec. Is. All property, real, personal Q
mixed, shall DO taxed, but the Legislator
may except such as may be held by th
q State, by counties, cities or towns, and use
10 exclusively for public or corporation pui
d poses, and such as may be held and use
for purposes purely religious, charitable
d scientific, literary or educational, and sha
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