The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-08


office of profit or trust under authority
of the United States. or of this State.
shall be a member of the Legislature;
Provided. That appointments III the
State Militia. and the offices of notary
public, justice Of the peace, United
States commissioner, and postmaster
or the fourth class, shall not, within
the meaning of this section. be con-
sidered offices of profit or trust.
Sec. Z. No member of the Legislature
during the term for which he was
elected, shall be appointed or elected
to any civil office of profit under this
State which shall have been created.
or the emoluments of which shall have
been increased, during the term for
which he was elected.
Sec. 8. Members of the Legislature.
in all cases except treason. felony or
breach of the peace. shall be privileged
from arrest during each session of the
Legislature. for fifteen days next pre-
ceding each session. and in returning
therefrom; and for words used in any
speech or debate in either house. they
shall not be questioned in any other
place.
Sec. 9. The members Of the Legisla-
ture shall receive such per diem and
mileage as the Legislature may provide.
not exceeding 81 per day. and 10 cents
per mile for the distance necessarily
Travelled going to and returning from
the place of meeting on the most usual
route, and they shall receive no other
pay or perquisite.
Sec. 10. Each house shall be the
judge of the election and qualifications
Of its members, and may punish them
for disorderly conduct, and with the
concurrence of two-thirds of all the
members elected, eXpel I member for
cause.
Sec. II. A majority of the members
of each house shall constitute d quo
rum to transact business. but a small
Ter number may adjourn from day 10
day, and may compel the attendance
of absent members in such manner
and under such penalties as each
house may prescribe.
Sec u. Each house shall determine
the rules of its proceedings and choose
its own officers and employees.
Sec. Is. The Governor shall issue
writs of election to fill vacancies that
may occur in either house of the Leg
islature.
Sec. IA. Each house shall keep a
journal of its proceedings, which, ex~
cept in case Of executive sessions,
shall be published, and the yeas and
nays on any question. at the request
of five members of such house, shall
be entered upon the journal.
Sec. 10. All sessions of the Legisla-
ture. except those of the Senate while
sitting in executive session. shall be
public; and neither house, without the
consent of the other, shall adjourn for
more than three days nor to any other
place than that i'll which 1t may be
holding session.
Sec. 16. No regular session of the
Legislature Except the first which may
sit ninety days.. snail exceed sixty days,
except in cases OF impeachment. No
special session shall exceed thirty
days, and in such special session, or
when a regular session of the Leg
islature trying cases of impeach-
ment exceeds sixty days. the mem
bers shall receive for compensation
only the usual per diem and mileage.
Sec. II. The House of Representa-
tives shall have the sole power of i'm
parchment, but in order to impeach,
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