The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
THE NEW ICON SITITIJTION
As Signed by the Delegates to the Constitutional
 4sE: Convention.

I act. to provide for the permanent loca- Il ton of the courty site of shelby eoun- Il ty..a Alabama. bi vote ofJtAe ahalifiedi Il sth day of February, 1899, and the act
 ameudatory thereof. approved tLe goth | day of February, 1899. or Sy an cleo ton held under the provisions of this ] article.
 1 v ARTICLE III.
 Distribution of Powers of Government.
 42. The powers of the government of l the State of Alabama shall be divided
 into three distinct departments. each \ of which shall be confined to a separate
 body of nagistracy, to-wit: Those
 which are legislative, to one; those
 which are executive to anUther:i and
 those which are judicial to another. H 43, In the government of this State,
 except in the instances in this Consti- I tuition hereinafter expressly directed or l permitted. the Legislative Department I shall never exercise the executive and I Judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the | legislative and Judicial powers, or
 either of them; the judicial shall never 1 exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end
 that 1t may be a government of laws
 and not of men. | ARTICLE ".
 | Legislative Department.
 4. The legislative power of the State
 shall be vested in a Legislature. which
 shall consist of Senate and a House
 of Representatives.
 | ,45. The style of the laws of this State
 shall be: Be 1t enacted by the Legis-
 lature of Alabama" which need not be
 repeated. but the act shall be divided
 into sections for convenience, accord ing to substances; and the sections
 designated merely by figures. Each | law shall contain but one subject,
 which shall be clearly expressed in its | title, except general approprittion bills.
 general revenue bills, and bills adopt ing code digest or revision of stat. utes; and no law shall be revived,
 amended or the provisions thereof ex- tended or conferred by reference to It's
 title only; but so much thereof as is | revived, amended, extended, or con- ferred shtll be re-enacted and publish ed at length. 4S. Senators and Representatives
 shall be elected by the qualified elect | ors on the first Tuesday after the first
 Monday in November. unless the Le- gislature shall change the time of hold | ing elections, and in every fourth year ] thereafter. The terms of office of the
 Senators and Representatives shall
 commnca on the day after the general | election at which they are elected, and expire on the day after the general | election held in the fourth year after l their election, except as otherwise pro- vided in this Constitution. At the gem I eral eltcton in the year nineteen hun
 dred and two all the Representatives,
 together with the Senators for the
 even numbered districts and for the | trtR he
 The terms of those Senators who rep
 resen: tho odd numbered districts
 under the law in force prior to the
 ratification of this Constitution, are
 hereby extended until the day after
 the general election In the year nine- | teen hundred and six; and until the ex- Il piration of his term as hereinbefOre | sent the district established by this Con- | stitution. bearing the number correspond ing with that for which he was elected
 In the year nineteen hundred and six
 and in every fourth year thereafter.
 all the Senators and Representatives
 shall be elected. Whenever vacancy | shall occur in either House the Cover
 nor shall issue a writ of election to fill
 such vacancy for the remainder of the
 term. l 4T. Senators shall be at least 25 years | of age, tnd Representatives 21 years of l aga at the time of their election. They shalr have been citizens and residents
 of this State for three years, and, resi-
 dents of their respective counties or
 districts for one year next before their
 election, If such county or district shall I have been So long established; but If
 not, then of the county or district from | which the same shall have been taken,
 and they shall reside in their respective
 counties or districts during their termI of office.
 4. The Legislature shall meet quad
 rennially at the Capitol, in the Senate chtmber, and in the hall of the House of Representatives on the second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election, or on such other day as may be prescribed by law: and shall
 not remain in session longer than SO day1 at the first session held under this Constitution, nor longer than 50 | days at any subsequent session. If at
 any time 1t should from any cause be-
 come impossible or dangerous for the Legislature to meet or remain at the
 Capitol, or for the Senate to meet or
 remain in the Sentte chamber. or for
 the Representatives to- meet or remain in the hall of the House of Represen- | tatives, the Governor may convene the Legislature ,or remove it, after 1t has 1 convened, to some other place, or may designate some other place for the sit ting of the respective houses, or
 either of them. as necessity may re- Guirs. ''t '''-' '' F-'-
 4e. The pay of ;he members of the Legislature shall be four. dollars per
 day, and ten cents per mile in going to
 and returning from the seat of govern | ment. to be comRnted by the nearest
 usual route travefed.
 50 The Legislature shall consist of not more than thirty-hve Senators, and not more than one hundred and five
 members or the House of Representa- tives, to be apportioned among the
 several districts and counties as pre- scribed In this Constitution: provided l that in tddition to the above number of
 Representatives, each new. county
 hereafter created shall be entitled to one Representative. eed .'+rrr- sas
 5l. The Senate. at the beginning of each regular session. and at Such other times as may be necessary, shaII elect one of it's members President pro tenn thereof, to preside over its deliberations
 in the absence of the Lieutenant Gov,
 error: and the House of Representa. l tives, at the, beginning of each regular | session, and at such other times as may be necessary. shall elect one of ,,s
 members Speaker: and the President of
 the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representative
 shaA hold e their,c 9ofIl ees,g o, Fespeet-s
 !txisly,,ar Paak ithsir . :, s sssl,cesH4OTS 'asre A !. .n.f fasa-