The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-08-29
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ARTICLE III.
THE LEGIsLAT1vE DEPARTMENT.

VeSted IN q senate ana mouse or representa-
tives.
SEC. Is. The senate shall be composed OF
not less than thirty nor more than fifty
SEC. II. Senators shall be elected for the
term Of four years, except as hereinafter
SEC. Is. No person shall be a senator
who is not a qualified elector in the district
in which he may be chosen, and who shall
not have attained the 2 Of twenty-five
years, and have been a resident Of the
state or territory for two years next pre-
ceding his election.
SEC. %. The Legislative Assembly shall
fix the number of senators, and divide the
state into as many senatorial districts a.
there are senator's, which districts as nearly
as may be, n be equal to each other in
the number Of inhabitants entitled to rep
resentation. Each district shall be entitled
to one senator and no more, and shall be
composed of compact and contiguous terri
tory; and no portion of any county shall be
attached to any other county, or part there
of, so as to form a district. The districts as
tinue until changed ny law.
SEC. so. The SENATOR'S Il districts shall be
numbered consecutively from one upwards,
according to the number OF districts pre-
scribed, and the senators shall be divided
into two classes. Those elected in the dis
tricts designated by wen numbers shall
constitute n class, and those elected in
constitute the other class. The senators of
n class, elected in the year 1890, shall
hold their Office for two years, those of
the other class shall hold their Office four
years, and the determination of the two
classes shall be by lot, so that One-half
of the senators, as nearly as practicable,
may be elected biennially.
rI SUrC d Tho Sov,otxa az fhn ha>pinniy, ~ orI
close of each regular session, and at such
other times as may be necessary, shall elect
one of its members president pro tempore,
who may take the place of the Lieutenant
Governor under rules prescribed by law.l
SEC. 81. The house OF representatives
shall be composed of not less than sixty,
nor more than one hundred and forty
members.
SEC. 50. Representatives shall be elected
for the term Of two years.
+. SEC. 81. No person shall be a represent
alive who is not a qualified elector in the
district for which he may be chosen, and
who shall not have attained the age of
twenty-one years, and have been a resident
Of the state or territory for two years next
SEC. IS. The members of the house of
representatives shall be apportioned to and
elected at large from each senatorial
district. The Legislative Assembly shall.
in the year 1896, and every tenth year,
cause an enumeration to be made of all the
inhabitants Of this state,and shall at its first
regular session after each such enumera-
ton and also after each federal census, pro-
coed to fix by law the number OF senator's
which shall constitute the Senate of North
Dakota, and the number of representative S
which shall constitute the House of Repre-
s%entativeS of North Dakota, within the
limits prescribed by this Constitution, and
at the same session shall proceed to re-
appOrtiOn the state into senatorial districts,
as prescribed by this Constitution, and to
fix the number of members of the House of
Representatives, to be elected from the sew
eral senatorial districts; provided, that the
Legislative Assembly may, at any regular
session, redistrict the state into senatorial
districts, and apportion the senators and
representatives respectively. !"
SEC. So. The house of representatives
shall elect one of its members as speaker.
SEC. 81. No judge or clerk Of any court,
secretary Of state, attorney general, reg
lister Of deeds, sheriff or person holding any
Office of profie under this state, except
in the militia Or the Office Of attor.
ney-at-law, notary public or justice of
the peace, and no person holding any Office
of profit or honor under any foreign gov
eminent, or under the government of the
United States, except postmasters whose
annual compensation does not exceed the
sum of $500, shall hold any Office in either
branch of the Legislative Assembly or be-
come q member thereof.
SEC. IS. No member of the Legislative
Assembly, expelled for corruption, and no
person convicted Of bribery, perjury or
other infamous crime shall be eligible to
the Legislative Assem- bly,, or to any Office
in either branch thereof.
SEC. SO. No member of the Legislative
Assembly shall, during the term for which
he was elected, be appointed or elected to
any civil Office in this state, which shall
which shall have been increased during the
term tor which he was elected; nor
shall any member receive any civil ap-
pOintment from the governor, or governor
and senate, during the term for which he
shall have been elected.
SEC. 40. II any perso. elected to either
house of the Legislative Assembly shall
offer or promise to give his vote or int1u-
ence, in favor of, or against any measure
introduced into the Legislative Assembly,
In consideration, or Upon conditions, that
any other person elected to the same Leg
islative Assembly will give, or will prom
ise or assent to give, his vote OF In
fluence in favor Of or against any other
measure or proposition, pending or pro-
posed to be introduced into such Legisla-
~ . AN RO40VA n QUILL
offer or promise shall be deemed guilty of
solicitation Of bribery. II any member OF
the Legislative Assembly, shall give his
vote or influence for or against any meas
nre or proposition, pending or proposed to
be introduced into such Legislative Assem-
bly,, or offer, promise or assent SO to do
upon condition that any other member will
give, promise or assent n give his
vote or influence in favor of or against any
other such measure or proposition pending
or proposed to be introduced into sucii
Legislative Assembly, or in consideration
that any other member hath given his vote
or influence, for or against any other
measure or proposition in such Legislative
Assembly, he shall be deemed guilty OF
Legislative Assembly or person elected
such o~ffenses, shall be expelled, and shall
not, thereafter be eligible to the Legislative
Assembly, and, on the conviction thereof
IN the civil courts, shall be liable to such
further penalty as may be prescribed by
law.
SEC. Al. The term Of service OF the mem
hers OF the Legislative Assembly shall be.
gin on the first Tuesday in January, next
after their election. q
SEC. AZ. The members OF the Legislative
Assembly shall in all cases except treason,
felony and breach OF the peace, be priv
legged from arrest during their attendance
at the sessions of their respective houses,
and in going to or returning from the same,
For words used in any speech or debate in
either house, they shall not be questioned
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