Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-11-21

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uary every second year, and at other times when
convened by the Governor, but shall hold no ad-
jour ned annual session after the year one thou
sand eight hundred aud sevcnty-eight. In case
of a vacancy in the office of United States Sena-
tor from this Commonwealth, in q recess be-
tween sessions, tho Governor shall convene the
two houses by proclamation on notice not ex-
ceeding sixty days to fill the same.
| SEC. s. Senators shall be at least twenty five
years Of age, and Representatives twenty-one
years of age. They shall have been citizens and
Inhabitants of the State four years, and nhabi
tants Of their respective districts one year next
before their election (unless absent the public
business of the United States oil of this State,)
and shall reside In their respective districts dur
| ing their terms of service.
SEC. 8. No Senator or Representative shall,
| during the time for which he shalt 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 at
! torney-at-law or In the mitia) under the United
States or this Commonwealth shall ne n member
| of either house during his continuance In office.
SEQ. z. No person hereafter convicted of en-
bezzlemcut Of public moneys, bribery, perjury or
! other Infamous crime, shall be eligible to the
| General Assembly, or capable of holding any Of
Zee of trust or profit In this Commonwealth.
SEC. 3. The members of the General Assembly
shall receive such salary aud mileage for regular
and special sessions rs shall be fixed By law, and
no other compensation whatever, whether for
service upon committee or otherwise. No men,
Der Of either house shall, during the term for
which he may have been elected, receive any in
crease of salary, or mileage, under any law puss
ed during such term.
SEC. 0. The Senate shall, at the beginning ana
close of each regular session and at such o'aer
times as may be necessary, elect one of its mem-
bers president pro tempore. who shaH perform
the duties OF the Lieutenant Go'erhor, III any
case OF absence or bility 80 that officer, and
whenever the said Office of Lieutenant Governor
shall be vacant The House of Representatives
shall elect one of its members as Speaker. Each
h use shall choose It's other officers, and shall
Judge Of the election and qualifications of its
members.
SEC. 10. 4 majority Of each House shall con-
siitute a quorum, but smaller number may ad-
journ from day to day, and compel the attend
ance of absent nenlbers.
SIC. II. Each house shall have power to deter
mine the rules of its proceeding aud punish its
members or other persons for contempt or dsor-
derry behavior In its presence, to enforce obedi-
epce to Its process. to protect its uIembcrs
against violence, offers of bribes or private
licitation, and with tho concurrence of two
thirds, to expel II member, but not a second time
for the same cause aud shall have all other
powers necessary for the legislature of free
State. member expelled for corruption shall
not thereafter be eligible to either house, and
punishment, or contempt or disorderly behavior
shall not bar an Indictment for the came ofense.
Sec. IL. Each house shall keep journal of its
proceedings and from time to time publish the
same, except such parts as require secrecy, and
the yeas and nays of the members on any ques-
tion shall, at the desire of any two of them, be
entered on the Journal.
SEC. l8. The sessions of each house aud of
committees of the whole shall be open, unless
when the business is such as ought to h9 hopt Sc
cret.
sent OF the other, adjourn for more than three
days, nor TO any other place than that In which
the two houses shall be sitting.
SEC. Is. Tho members of the General Assem-
bly, shall in all cases. except trea SON. felony yio-
LAT inn Of fheir nufh nfp apA hrna H.,
ty of the peace, be privileged from marrest during
their attendance ut the sessions of their respec-
tive houses and in going to and returning from
the same and for any speech or debate in either
house, they shall not be questioned in any other
place.
SEc. 10. The State shall be divided into fifty
Senatorial districts of compact ard CONTIGUOUS
territory, as nearly equal in population as may
be- and each district shall be entitled to elect ono
Senator. Each county containing one or more
ratios of population shall be entitled to Sena-
tor for each ratio, and to an additional Scuator
for surplus of population exceeding thrce-dlths
oi a ratio but no county shall form seperate
district unless 1t shall contain four-ifths of ra-
ito, except where the adjoining counties are each
entitled to one or more Senators, when such
county may be assigned a Senator on less than
four-ffths, ard exceeding one-half of ratio,
and no county shall be di yded unless entitled to
two or more Senators. No city county shall
be entitled to 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 ratio
shall be ascertained by dividing the whole popu-
lation OF the State by the number nifty.
SEC. II. The members of the House of Repre-
scntatives shall be apportioned among the sever
al counties, on n ratio obtained by dividing the
population OF the State az ascertained by the
most recent United States census by two hun
dred. Every county containing less than five
ratios shall have one representative for every full
ratio, and an additional representative when the
ala halo -, hnt Il
shall have at least one representative. Every
county containing five ratios or more shall have
one representative for every full ratio. Every
city containing a population equal to a ratio
shall elect separately its proportion of the repre-
sentatives allotted to the county in which it Is
located. Every city entitled to more than four
representatives, and every county having over
one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be di-
yided iuto districts Of compact and contiguous
territory, each district to elect its proportion OF
representatives according to its population, but
no district shall elect more than four represen-
tatives.
SEC. is. The General Assembly at its first ses-
sion after the adoption of this constitution, and
immed lately after each United States decennial
census. shall apportion the State into Senatorial
and Representative districts agreeably TO the
provisions OF the two next preceding sections.
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATION.
SECTION l. No law shall be passed except by
bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended
on its passage through either house as to change
its original purpose.
SEC. .. No bill shall be considered unless re-
ferred to a committee, returned therefrom, and
printed for the use of the members.
SEC. 8. No bill, except general appropriation
bills, shall be passed, containing more than one
subject which shall be clearly expressed iu Its
title.
SEC. 4. Every bill shall be read at length on
three different days in each house all amend
ments made thereto shall be printed for the use
of the members before the final vote is taken on
the bill, and no bill shall become law unless
on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas
and nays, hte names of the persons voting for
and against the same be entered on the journal,
and ma ority of the members elected to each
house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.
SEC. 5. No amendment TO bills by one house
shall be coneurred in by the other, except by
vote of u majority OF the members elected there
,hcs "a Zen ,by yeas and nays, and the names of
Journal thereof; and rpaJRs' recorded upon the
ference shall be adopted in either hohsees ol con
the vote of q majority OF the members electG
thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names
of those voting recorded upon the journal.
SEC. 8. No law shall be revived, amended, or
the provisions thereof extended or conferred by
;,a 10 only hut ueh thereof las