The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-12

any title of nobility or hereditary distinc-
tion, nor create any Office the appointment
ing good behavior.
SEC. 25. Emigration from the State shall
not be prohibited
SEC. 20. To guard against transgressions
OF the high powers which we have dele
gated, we declare that everything in this ar
tlcle is excepted out of the general powers
OF government, and shall forever remain in
violate.
ARTICLE II.
THE LEGISLATURES.
SECTION l. The legislative power of this
Commonwealth shall be vested in General
Assembly, which shall consist of n 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 vacancy
shall occur in either House, the presiding
officer thereof shall issue a writ of election
to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the
term.
SEC. 3. Senators shall be elected for the
term of four years and Representatives for
the term of two years.
SEC. i. 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
the year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight. In case of vacancy in the
Office of United States Senator from this
Commonwealth, in n 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. 8. 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 i'll 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 10 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 this
Commonwealth shall be 4 member of either
house during his continuance in office.
SEC. z. No person hereafter convicted of
! embeZZlement of public moneys, bribery,
! perjury or other infamous crime, shall be
, eligible to the General Assembly or capa-
! BILE of holding any Office of trust profit in
| this Commonwealth
SEC. s. The members of the General AS
| sembly shall receive such salary and mile
age for regular and special sessions as shall
| be fixed by law, and no other compensation
! whatever, whether for service upon commit
tee or otherwise. No member of either
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.
SIC 9. The Senate shall, at the beginning
and close of each regular session and at
such other times as may be necessary, elect
one of it's members president pro tempore,
who Shall perform the duties of the Liettfen-
ant Governor, in any case of absence or disa-
blllty of that officer, and whenever the said
ofhce of Lieutenant Governor shall be va
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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 TO- A majority of each House shall
constitute quorum, but n 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 Tor con-
tempt or disorderly behavior in its presence,
to enforce obedience to its process, to pro-
tect its members against violence, or offers
! of bribcs private solicitation, and with
the concurrence of two-thirdS, TO eXpel a
! member, but not n second time for the same
cause, and shall have all other powers neces-
sary for the legislature of free State. \
| member expelled for corruption shall not
| thereafter be eligible to either house, and
punishment for contempt or disorderly be-
havior shall not bar All indictment for the
! same offense.
SEC. 12 Each house shall keep a journal
| of its proceedings, and from time to fine
publish the same, except such parts a" re re-
4uire secrecy, and the yeas and nays OF the
! members on any question shall, at the desire
of any two of them, be entered OH the journal.
| Sec 49, The sessions of each house and OF
! committees of the whole shall be open, un-
| less when the business Is such as ouSht 10
| be kept secret.
Sec. H. Neither house shall, without the
| consent of the other, adjourn for more than
three days, nor TO any other p ace than tha'
in which the two houses shall be slttng-
Sec Is. The members of the General AS
! sembly shall i'll all cases, except treason,
felony, violation af their oath of office, AND
breach or surety of the peaHe, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at the
sessions of their respective houses, and In
going to and returning from the same and
for any speech or debate IN either mouse
they shall not be questioned in any othel
place.
See 16. The State shall be divided into
! fifty Senatorial districts of compact anu con
! tipious territory, as nearly equal in popula
ton a. may be, and each district snail oe Ell
titled TO elect one Senator. Each county
containing one or more ratios of populatoI
shall be entitled to one Senator for ei'ch IA
tio and to an additional Senator for "A sur
plus of population exceeding three-ntths o.
a ratio but no county shall form - separate
district unless it shall contain tour-hIths o
a ratio, except where the adjoining counue'
are each entitled to one or more SehatoIs aDlE
when such county may be assigned Sena
tor on less than four-fifths, and exceeding
one-half of a ratio, and no county snail Ok
divided unless entitled to two or more senR
tors. No CITY or county shall be entitled Z
separate representation exceeding one-sixtl
of the whole number of Senators NO ware
: borough, or township shall be divided IN tn'
formation of 4 district. The Senatorial r.'
ito shall be ascertained by dlvidlhg th'
whole population of the State by the mum
Der fifty.
Sec IL. The members of the House
Representatives shall be apportioned auont
the several counties, on ratio obtained y.
dividing the population of the State as as
certained by the most recent United otaCe
census by two hundred. Every county con
tanning less than five ratios shall have ont
representative for every full ratio, ana al
additional representative when the surpiu
exceeds half a ratio but each county shal