The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-21

SEC. "a. The Legislature shall not grant
any title of nobility or hereditary distinc-
uon, nor create any Office the appointments
OF which shall be for longer term than dur
ing good behavior
SEC rs. Emigration from the State shall
not be prohibited
SEC 26. To guard against transgressions
OF the high powers which we have dele
gated, ws-declare that everythinpi in this ar
tlcie is excepted out of the general powers
OF government, and shall forever remain in
violate.
ARTICLE II.
THE LEGISLATURE.
SECTION l. The legislative power of this
Commonwealth shall he vested in General
Assembly, which shall consist of Senate
and House of Representatives.
SEC. 2. Members of the General Assem-
bly, shall be chosen at the general election
every second year. Their term of service
shall begin on the first day of December next
after their election. Whenever a vacancy
shall occur i'll either House, the presiding
officer thereof shall issue a writ of election
to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the
term.
SEC. 8. Senators shall be elected for the
term of four years and Representatives for
the term of two years.
SEC. 4. The General Assembly shall meet
at twelve O'Clock noon, on the first Tuesday
of January every second year, and at other
times when convened by the Governor, but
shall hold no adjourned annual session after
lnc year one thousand cl8nt hundred and
seventy-eight. In case of q vacancy in the
office of United States Senator from this
Commonwealth, in recess between ses-
sions, the Governor shall convene the two
houses by proclamation on notice not ex-
. ceeding sixty days to fill the same.
SEC. D. Senators shall be at least twenty
five years of age, and Representatives TWEEN
ty-one years of age They shall have been
citizens and inhabitants of the State four
years, and inhabitants of their respective
districts one year next before their election
(unless absent on the public business of the
United States or of this State), and shall re-
side in their respective districts during their
terms of service.
SEC. 6. No Senator or Representative
! shall, during the time for which he shall
| have been elected, be appointed to any civil
Office under this Commonwealth, and no
member of Congress or other person holding
any Office (except of attorney-at-law or in
/ the militia) under the United States or this
/ Commonwealth shall be a member of either
/ house during his continuance in office
/ SEC. I. No person hereafter convicted of
enbezzlemcnt of public moneys, bribery,
, perjury ar "tte- infamous crime, shall be
J eligible to the General Assembly, or capa-
( BILE of holding any Office of trust or profit in
i this Commonwealth.
SEC. 8. The members of the General As
sembly shall receive such salary and mile
age for regular and special sessions shall
be fixed by law, aud no other compensation
whatever, whether for service upon commit
house shall, during the term for which he
may have been elected, receive any increase
OF salary, or mileage, under any law passed
during such term,
SEC. 9. The Senate shall, at the beginning
and close of each regular session and al
! such uther times as may be necessary, elect
one of its members president pro tempore,
who shall perform the duties of the Lieuten-
ant Governor in any case of absence or disa-
bility of that officer, and Whenever the said
office of Lieutenant Governor shall be va
cant. The House of Representatives Rhall
elect one OF it's members as Speaker. Each
house shall choose its other officers, and
shall judge of the election and qualifications
of its members.
SEC. 10. A majority of each House shall
constitute quorum, but smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and compel
the attendance of absent members.
SEC. IL. Each house shall have power to
determine the rules of its proceedings and
punish its members or other persons for con-
tempt or disorderly behavior in its presence
to enforce obedience TO its process, to pro-
teCt its members against violence, ar offers
of bribes or private solicitation, and with
the concurrence of two-thirds, to expel a
member, but not a second time for the same
cause, and shall have all other powers neceS
sary for the legislature of free State. A
member expelled for corruption shall not
thereafter be eligible to either house, and
punishment for contempt or disorderly he
havior shall not bar an indictment for the
same offeuse.
SEC. II. Each house shall keep journa
of its proceedings, and from time TO time
publish the same. except such parts aS re
quire secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the
members on any question shall, at the desire
of any two of them, be entered on the journal
Sec. IS. The sessions of each house and o.
committees of the whole shall be open, un
less when the business is such as ought e
be kept secret
Sec ii. Neither house shall, without tn,
consent of the other, adjourn for more thar
three days nor to any other place than tina
in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Sec. Is. The members of the General AS
sembIy shall in all cases, except treason
felony, violation af their oath of office, anC
breach or surety of the peace, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at th
sessions of their respective houses, and IL
going to and returning from the same; anC
( for any speech or debate in either hous
they shall not be questioned in any othe
place.
Sec l6. The State shall be divided int
fifty Senatorial districts of compact anu con
tiguous territory, as nearly equal in popula
ton as may be, and each district shall be en-
titled to elect one Senator. Each count.
containing one or more ratios of populauol
shall be entitled to one Senator for each ra
ito. and to an additional Senator for sur
plus of population exceeding three-htths o
ratio but no county shall form separat
district unless it shall contain four hfths o
a ratio, except where the adjoining countie
/
when such county may be assigned a SeIia
tor on less than four-fifths, and exceeding
one-half of a ratio, and no county shall b
divided unless entitled to two or more Sena
: tors. No city or county shall be entitled Z
, separate representation exceeding one-SlXll
! of the whole number of Senators. No ward
: borough, or township shall be divided in TIN
formation of district. The Senatorial ra
ito shall be ascertained by dividing tn
. whole population of the State by the mum
Der fifty.
Sec. Il. The members of the House o
Representatives shall be apportioned amoni
the several counties, on a ratio ohtalned D.
dividing the population of the State as as
certained by the most recent United State
census by two hundred. Every county con
tanning less than five ratios shall have on
representative for every full ratio, and a.
Z. additional representative when the surplIl
; exceeds half ratio but each county shal
| have at least one representative, Ever
county containing five ratios or more sha