The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-05-29

journal, and every such item failing I,
receive the vote, of the requisite majOri
ty of the members elected to the nous,
in which the bill is peuding shall L,
stricken therefrom, and each item re
ceiving such majority shall be declared
passed
Sec. "a. The general assembly slal
prescribe by law the number. duties
and compensation Of the officers anC
employees of each hoIse. and no pay
trent shall be made from the State treas
ury, or be in any way authorized, TO any
officer or employe not elected OF ap
pointed in pursuance of law.
Sec. Is. No extra compensation shall
be made to any officer, public agent
emplOye, or contractor, after the service
shall have been rendered or the contract
entered into; nor shall any money he
appropriated or paid on any claim, the
subject matter Of which shall not have
been provided for by pre-existing law,
unless such compensation or claim be
allowed by bill, passed by two-thirds Oi
the members elected to each branch oi
the general assembly. No provision au
thoriZing the expenditure or payment OF
money for any purpose not provided FOL
by pre-eXisting law, shall be included in
any bill making appropriations for a
purpose which shall have been provided
so for, nor shall more than one class Of
compensation or claims be included i'll
the same bill. Every appropriation for
the payment of such compensation or
claim, included in an act making appro-
priatiOns Of a different class, shall be
void
Sec. 26. The house of representatives
shall have the sole power of inpeach-
ment, but majority of the members
elected must concur therein. Impeach-
ments shall be tried by the senate, and
the senators, when sitting for that pur-
pose, shall be upon oath or affirmation
to do justice according TO law and evi-
dence. When the governor is on trial,
the chief justice of the supreme court
shall preside. No person shall be con
victed without the concurrence of two
thirds of the senators.
Sec. q. The governor, judges, and all
State officers may be impeached for mis-
demeanOr in office; but judgment shall
not extend further than removal from
office, and disqualification to hold office
under the authority of this state. The
party impeached, whether convicted or
not, shall be liable to Indictment, trial
and judgment, according to law
Sec. 2S. All regular sessions of the
general assembly shall commence on the
first Wednesday in January, annually.
See. %. All laws of n general nature
shall have uniform operation through
out the State. No act, or part of an
act, except such as relates to public
schools, public buildings, or public
bridges, shall be passed TO take effect
upon vote of the people to be effected
thereby. or upon the approval of any
other authority than the general assem-
bly,, except as otherwise provided in this
constitution; nor shall any act be passed
comforting special powers or privileges
upon any county, township, city, village.
or other municipality, not conferred
upon all counties, townships, cities, vii
lagos, and municipalities of the same
general class.
Sec. 80. The election and appointment
of all officers, and the filling of all va
cancies, not otherwise provided for by
this constitution, or the constitution of
the United States, shall be made in such
manner as may be directed by law; but
no appointing power shall be exercised
by the general assembly, except as pre-
scribed in this constitution, and i'll the
election of United States senators; and
in these cases the vote shall be taken
UiUd UOce.
Sec. 81. The neral assembly shall
have no power to pass retroactive laws,
or laws irnpairing the obligation of con
tracts; but may, by general laws, au-
thoriZe courts TO carry into effect, upon
such terms as shall be Just and equitable,
the manifest intention of parties and
officers, by curing omissions, defects and
errors in instruments and proceedings,
arising out of their want of conformity
to the laws of this State.
Sec. 81. No new county shall contain
less than four hundred square miles of
territory, nor shall any county be re-
duced below that amount; and all laws
creating new counties, changing county
lines, or removing county seats, shall.
before taking effect, be submitted TO the
electors of the several counties to be
affected thereby, at the next general
election after the passage thereof, and
be adopted by a majority of all the elect
ors voting at such election in each of
said counties; but any county now or
hereafter containing one hundred thous-
and inhabitants may be divided, when
ever a majority of the voters residing in
each of the proposed divisions shall ap-
prove the law passed for that purpose;
but no town or city within the same
shall be divided, nor shall either of the
divisions contain less than twenty thous-
and inhabitants.
Sec. 80. The members of the general
assembly shall receive fixed annual sal
airy and mileage TO be prescribed by
law, and no other allowance or perqui-
sites, either in the payment of postage
or otherwise, and no change in their
compensation shall take effect during
their term of office, but the general as
sembly shall provide for ratable deduc-
tions therefrom on account of unneces-
sary absence during its sessions.
Sec. 81. The general assembly shall
grant no divorce, nor exercise any ju-
dicial power not herein expressly con
ferred