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ucriury and hc forever thereafter disqualified
from holding any Office of trust or profit in this

/ Constitution and during revising sessions, when
they may receive live dollars per day Tor one
| hundred and twenty days, and one dollar per
day for the remainder OF such session. In auui,
ton to per diem, The meliibefs snail DE entiueu
to receive travelling expenses OF mileage, ior any
re sular and extra session not greater than now
provided by law: but no member shall be entl-
tied 10 travelling expenses or mileage Tor any
| extra session that may he called within one day
after adjournment of a regular session.
Committees OF either house, or JOINT committees
of both houses, appointed to examine the lnstltu
tions OF the State, other than those at the seat oil
government, may receive their actual expenses,
necessarily incurred while IN the performance OF
such duty; The items of such expenses 10 he re,
| turned to the chairman of such committee, anu
| by him certified to the State Auditor, before the
| same. or any part thereof, can be- paid. Each
member may receive at each regular session an
additional sum of thirty dollars, which shall be
lacity, and all postage, and all other incidental
| expenses and prequisites: and no allowance or
for any purpose i nir s,i nr ny nv
member of either house, or for their use, out oi
| the contingent fund or otherwise, except rs
| herein expressly provi'tcd; ana no allowance OF
emOlument, for any purpose whatever, shal.
ever be paid to any officer, agent. servant or en-
pioye of either house OF the General Assembly,
or of any committee thereof, except such per
| diem as may be provided for by law, not to ex-
ceed five dollars.
oficers shall be sole judge of the altications,
election and returns of its own members; may
determine the rules of its own proceedings, eN-
cept rs herein provided; may arrest and punish
by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars. OF
Imprisonment in county jail not exceeding zen
days, or bOth any person, not member, VINO
s: Ill he guilty of disrespect to the house by any
disoricrly OF rcontemptuous behavior in its pres
ence during its sessions; may punish its MEM
hers for disorderly conduct; and with the con-
| currcnce of two-thIrds of all members eject,
may expel a member; hut no member shall I've
expelled second time for the same cause.
Sec. Is y majority OF the whole number oil
members of each House shall constitute quo
rum TO do business; but L smaller number may
ADJOURN IRON day 10 day, anu may coml'el lhe
attendance OF absent members in such manner
and under such penalties as each House may
provide.
scce 10. The sessions of each House shall be
held with open doors, except III cases which may
require secrecy.
Sec. 20 The General Assembly elected in the
year Thousand eight hundred and seventy
six shall meet on the first Wednesday after the
first day OF January, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven; and thereafter the General
Assembly Shall meet in regular session once only
| in every two Years; and such meeting shall he
the first Wednesday after the first day OF Jam
| nary next after The elections of the members
thereof
Sec. 81. Every adjournment or recess taken
| by the Genera: Assembly for more than three
days. shall have the effect of and he an adjourn
| nient sine die.
| sec. -. Every adjournment recess taken
| by The General Assembly for three days or less,
shall he construed as not ntcrrupting the
sion III which they had or takrn but as con-
| timing the session for all the purposes mentnn-
rd IN section sixteen of this Article.
Sec. -. Neither House shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than two
days nj any one tne nor TO any other place than
| llat in which the two Houses may be sitting.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Sec. u. The style of the laws of this State
shall be, 'tBe it enacted by. the General Assem-
| bly, OF the State Of Missouri, as follows:''
| Sec. p. No law shall be passed, except by
| bill, and no bill shall be amended in its pa
age through. House, AS to change its orlgi-
| see q. Bills may originate in either House,
| aud may be amended or rejected by the other;
| and every bill shall be read on three different
| a
See p. No bill shall be considered for final
passage unless the same has been reported upon
by Il committee and printed for the Use OF the
| members.
Sec. as. No bill Except general appro-
| pria!ion bills, which may embrace the various
subjects and accounts for and on account OF
| which moneys are appropriated, and except
bills passed under the Third subdivision of sec
| ton torty-fOIIr of this .Article) shall contain
more than subject, which shall be clearly eX
| pressed in its title.
| see %, All amendments adopted by either
| House to Il bill pending and originating in the
same, shall be incorporated with the bil by en-
grossment, and the bill thus ensrossed, shall be
| printed for the use Of the members before its
| final passage. The engrossing and printing shall
| he undcrt the supervision of Il committee, WI oSe
that they find the bill truly engrossed, and that
| rect.
| Sec 30, If n bill passed by either House be re-
turned thereto, amended by the other, the House
10 which the same returned shall cause the
amendment OF amendments SO received to be
ded III the next preceding section, FOR the use
of the members before final action on such
amendments.
Sec. 81 No bill shall become IL law, unless
| on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas
and mays, the names Of the membcrs voting for
and against the same be entered on the journal, i,
and majority Of the members elected to each
House be berecoried thereon rs voting in its favor.
| Sec. 81 No amendment tobilS by one House
shall be concurred in by the other, except by Il
| vote OF majority of the members elected there
to, taken by yeas and nays, and the names Of
journal thereof, and tile reports of committees
OF conference shall be adopted in either House
only 10y the vote of Il majority of the members
elected thereto. taken by yeas and nays, and the
names of those voting recorded upon the jour
nal.
Sec 49, No act shall be revive,. or re-enacted
by reference to the title thereof, but the
same shall be set forth at length, as il itwere an
original act
Sec "a No act shall be amended by provid-
| ing that designated words theleo: he stricken
that designated words be stricken out and others
| Inserted IN lieu thereof; but the words to be
stricken out, or the words to be inserted, or the
lieu thereof, together With the act section
amended, shall he set forth in full. as anended.
Sec. 81. When Il bill is put upon its final pas
sage in either House, and failing To pass, u mo-
tion is niae 10 reconsider the vote by which 1t
was defeated, the vote upon such motion to re-
subject finally disposed of before the House pro-
ceeds to any other business.
See. ST. No law passed by the General Assem-
take efect or 90 into force until ninety days
after the adjournment of the session ut which il
(Which emergency must be expressed in the
preamble or i'll the body Of the act,) the General
Assembly shall, by Il vote OF two-thir,ls Of all
the members elected TO each House, otherwise
dir-ct; said vote TO be taken by yeas and nays,
, and entered upon the journal
Sec. 81. No bill shall become Il law until the
same shall have been signed by the presiding
officer Of each of tn" two Houses i'll open
sion; and before such officer shall ailiN his sisna-
lure 10 any bill, lie shall suspend all other bust
ness, declare that such bill will now be read, /,
and that, if no objections he made, he will sign
TIL same I" the end that il may become law
The bill shall then he read Al length, and If no
objections be made, he shall, IN presence Of the
House iii open session, and before amy other bus
| inrss il entertained alliN his signature which
fact shall he noted on the journal, and the bill
immediately sent t. the other House When it
reaches the other House, the presi,ims officer
therroi shall Immediately suspend all other buS-
ness announce the reception of the bill, and the
same proceedings shall iiereupon be observed,
IN every respect, as in the House i'll which it Was
first stsned. III in either House any member
shall object that any substitution, omission OF
insertion has occurred, That the bill proposed
10 he Signed Is not The same i'll substance and
form as when considered tna passed by the
iinuse or thai any particular clause This
ticle of the Constitution has been violated in it,;
passage, such objection shall be passed dl,un ly
the House, ani II sustained, the presiding. officer
shall Withhold his signature; bat if such objec-
ii"l sliii h"t bc sustained. then any five nienl-
brra may cnib"'ty the SANE" over their sigma
ii's. IN Il Wfi'i-h protest, under oath, ag:ilns,
| nv I'S"'i= va NV Dll. sad protest when OIL
l'red IN the House shall he uoted unon The
Journal, and The original shall be annexed TO the
bill 10 he considered hy the Governor in ,ouc,.-
| ton herewith.
SEE. IS. Vixen the bill has been signed, as
provided for IN the preceding section il shall he
The duly of the Secretary oithe Seuate ii the bill
originated III The senate, and OF the Chief Clerk
ol thr House pi Representatives. II The bill or%
n;tt"d IN the House, 10 present the in per-
son, ON the same day IN which ii signed as
aforesaid, 10 Tie Co. crnor, and enter the fac;
| upon the journal. Every bill presented To The
Governor, and returned within ten days To the
liou5c i'll which the same originated, with til.
approval of the Governor, shall become Il law,
unless he IN violation of proy isium OF This
constitution.
sec. 30. Every bill presented rs aforesaid
| hui returned without the approval of the Cover
nor, ami with his objections thereto, shall stand
as considered IN the House to which il is re-
turned. The House shall cause the objections OF
Journal ant proceed, at its convenience 10 con-
slider he question pcnttihg, Which shall lie in this
| form: Slidi the bIli pass, the objections OftGt
Governor thereto notwithstanding ?'' The vot.
upon this question shall be taken by yeas and
mays, ami the names entered upon the journal
dnd II twU-illttS ol all the members elected tC
the House vote IN the Affirmative. the prcsdin.
oiIccr pi tiIat House shall certify that fact the
roll, attcallnS the same 10y his signature an,
send the bill, with the objections of the Cover.
nor, 10 the other House, Ill which like proceed
lnSS shall be had in relation thereto; and if tn,
bill receive like majority OF the votes of all tn,
members elected to that House, the vote being
! taken by Yeas and nays. the presiding officer
Il thereof hall III like manner certify the ct nm.
posted in the Office of the Secretary oi stale a.
Y an authentic act and shall become law IN,