The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-05

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! any title of nobility hereditary distinc-
! ton, nor create any office the appointment
/ of which shall be for longer term than dur
! ing good behavior.
! SEC. %. Emigration from the State shall
not be prohibited.
! SEC. 26. To guard against transgressions
| OF the high powers which we have dele
gated, we declare that everything in this ar
ticle 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 be vested in a General
Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate
and House of Representatives.
SEC. =. 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 in either House, the presiding
officer thereof shall issue a writ of election
TO fill such vacancy for the remainder OF the
term.
SEC. 5. Senators shall be elected for the
term of four years and Representatives for
the term of two years
SEC. t. 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
Sevcnty-eight. In case of vacancy in the
| office of United States Senator from this
| Commonwealth, in a 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 twen-
! ty-oue 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 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 miIitia) under the United States or this
! Commonwealth shall be member OF either
| house during his continuance in Office.
| SEC. Z. No person hereafter convicted of
| embeZZlement of public moneys, bribery,
/ perjury other infamous crime, shall be
! eligible TO the General Assembly, or capa-
BILE of holding any Office of trust or 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 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.
SEC. 9. The Senate shall, at the beginning
| and close of each regular session and at
| such other times as NAV be necessary, elect
one of its members president pro tempore,
who shall perform the duties of the Lieuten-
ant Governor, i'll any case of absence or disa-
bility of that officer, and whenever the said
office of Lieutenant Governor shall be va
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elect one of its members as Speaker. Each
house shall choose its other officers, and
shall judge of The election and qualifications
of its members.
constitute quorum, but smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and compel
the attendance of absent members.
SEC. II. 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 70 its process, to pro-
teCt its members against violence, or 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 a free State. y
member expelled for corruption shall not
thereafter be eligible to either house, and
punishment for contempt or disorderly be-
havior shall not bar an indictment for the
same offense.
SEC. L. EaCn mouse snail keep Il JOuIudl
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. 13. The sessions of each house and OF
| committees of the whole shall be open, un-
less when the business is such as ought to
be kept secret.
Sec. II. Neither house SHALL without the
! consent of the other, adj djOurn for more than
I three 61VS other place than tDat
in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Sec. 15. The members of the General As
sembly shall in all cases, except treason,
! felony, violation af their oath of office, and
I breach or surety of the pea ce, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at the
sessions of their respective houses, ana IN
going to and returning from the same and
| for any speech debate in either house
they shall not be questioned III any other
place.
! fifty Senatorial districts of compact and con-
| tiguous territory, nearly equal in popula-
ton as may be, and each district shall be en-
titled t. elect one Senator. Each county
! containing one or more ratios OF population
shall be entitled to one Senator for each ra-
ito, and to additional Senator tor sur
plus of population exceeding three-tfths OF
a ratio but no county shall form separate
district unless it shall contain faur-fifths OF
! a ratio except where the adjoining counties
are each entitled to one or more Senator'S
! when such comfy may be assigned a Sena-
tor on less than four-ffths, and exceeding
one-half of a ratio, and no county shall be
divided unless entitled 10 two or more Sena-
tors. No city or county shall be ehntleu 10
separate representation exceeding one-siXth
of the whole number of Senators. No ward,
borough, or township shall be divided in the
formation of district. The Senatorial ral=
ito shall be ascertained by dividing the
! whole population of the State by the num-
Der fifty.
Sec. IL. The members of the House OF
| Representatives shall be apportioned among
! the several counties, on a ratio obtained by
dividing the population of the State rs as
| certained by the most recent United States
census by tUo hundred. Every county con-
tanning less than i've ratios shall have one
! representative for every full ratio, and an
additional representative when the surplus
exceeds half a ratio but each county shall
have at least one representative. Every