The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-12-27
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the governor may by proclamationsnp-
point more secure and convenient
place of meeting. Mombers of the
general assembly shall not receive ANY
compensation for more than forty days
of any one session: Provided, that
this limitation shall not affect the first
four sessions of the general assembly
under this constitution.
Sec. 10. The terms of Office Of the
senator's and representatives chosen at
general election shall begin on the
Monday following such election.
Sec. IL. Each house shall Judge OF
the election returns and qualifications
Of its own members, and q majority OF
each house shall constitute quorum to
do business; but smaller number may
adjourn from day to day, and may
compel the attendance of absent mem
bers, in such manner and under such
penalties as may be provided by law
or rule.
Sec. IL. Each house shall choose its
own officers, determine its rules of
procedure, punish it's members for dis
orderly behavior, and, with the con-
currence of two-thirds, expel mem
ber, but not,a second time for the same
cause.
Sec. IS. Each house may punish by
imprisonment during its sitting any
person not q member who shall be
guilty of disrespect to the house by
any disorderly contemptuous behavior
in its presence, or who, during the
time of its sitting, shall threaten harm
to the body or estate Of any member
for anything said or done in either
house, or who shall assault them there
witness or other person ordered to at
tand the house in his going thereto or
returning therefrom, or who shall res
cue any person arrested by order of
the house: Provided, that such time
of imprisonment shall not in any case
extend beyond the session Of the gen.
eral assembly.
Sec. IA. The members of both
houses shall be protected in their per-
sons and estates during their attend
ance on, going to and returning from
the general assembly, aud 10 days pre-
vious to the sitting and 10 days after
the adjournment thereof. But these
privileges shall not protect any mem
ber who shall be charged with treason,
felony or breach of the peace.
Sec. Is. Bills for raising revenue
shall originate in the house of repre-
sentatives, but may be altered, amend
ed or rejected by the senate; all other
bills may originate in either house,
and may be amended, altered or re-
jected by the other.
Sec. 16. The style of Ill laws shall
be: "Be it enacted by the general as
sembly of the State of South Carolina"
Sec. IT, Every act or resolution
having the force of law shall relate to
but one subject, and that shall be ex-
pressed in the title.
Sec. Is. No bill or joint resolution
shall have the force of law until it shall
have been read three times and on
three several days in each house, has
had the great seal of the State affixed
to it, and has been signed by the pres
ident of the senate and the speaker of
the house of representatives Provid-
ell, that either branch Of the general
assembly may provide by rule for
first and third reading OF any bill or
joint resolution by its title only.
Sec. 10. Each member of the general
assembly shall receive five cents for
every mile for the ordinary route of
travel in going to and returning from
the place where its sessions are held;
no general assembly shall have the
power to increase the per diem of its
own members; and members of the
general assembly when convened in
extra session shall receive the same
compensation as is fixed by law for the
regular session.
Sec. 90. In all elections by the gen.
eral assembly, or either house thereof,
the members shall vote "viva voce,"
and their votes, thus given, shall be
entered upon the journal of the house
to which they respectively belong.
Sec. 21. Neither house, during the
session of the general assembly, shall,
without consent Of the other, adjourn
for more than three days, nor to any
other place than that in which it shall
be at the time sitting.
Sec. %. Each house shall keep a
journal of its own proceedings, and
cause the same to be published i'm
mediately after its adjournment, ex-
cepting such parts as, in its judgment,
may require secrecy; and the yeas
and nays of the members of either
house, on any question, shall, at the
desire of ten members of the house or
five members of the senate, respective
ly. be entered on the journal. Any
member of either house shall have
liberty to dissent from and protest
against any act or resolution which he
may think injurious to the public or to
an individual, and have the reasons of
his dissent entered on the journal.
Sec. 23. The doors of each house
shall be open. except on such occasions
rs in the opinion of the house may re-
quirc secrecy.
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