The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-04

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 repeated but the act shall be divided ints sectioni for convenience. accord l ing to substance; and the sections
 designated merely by figures. Each law shall contain but one subject
 which shall be clearly expressed m US title, except general approprittion Dliis.
 general revenue bills, and bills adopt
 ing a code digest or revision or sta.-
 utes; and no law shall be reviVeo'
 amended or tho provisions thereon ex-
 tended or conferred by reference to lts I,itIe oniv. but SO much thereof as Is revived, amended, extended, or con-
 ferred shtll be re-enacted and puoiisn-
 ed at length.
 4S. Senators and Representatives
 shall be elected by the qualified elect
 ors on the first Tuesday after the nrst
 Monday in November, unless the Le-
 gislature shall change the time Of noio-
 ing elections. and in every fourth year thereafter. The terms of office or the Senators and Representatives shall commnce on the day after the general election at which they are elected, ana expire on the day after the general
 election held in the fourth year atter their election, except as otherwise pro-
 vided in this Constitution. At the gem | eral eltcton in the year nineteen nun
 dred and two all the Representatives, I even numbered districts and for the thirty-fifth district, shall be elected. Tho terms of those Senators who rep- resen: tha odd numbered districts
 under the law in force prior to the ratification of this Constitution, are hereby extended until the day after tho general election in the year nine teen hundred and six; and until the ex- piration of his term as hereinbefore | extended, each such Senator shall repre- 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 tho Senators and Representatives
 shall be elected. Whenever vacancy shall occu: in either House the Cover l nor shall issue a writ of election to fill such vacancy for the remainder Of the | terns.
 47. Senators shall be at least 25 years
 of age. tnd Representatives N years ot az, at the time of their election. They
 shall 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 have been so long established; but if l 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
 tern9 O. office.
 4t Tn, 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 50
 days at the first session held under | this Constitution, nor longer than 50 l days at any subsequent session. If at any time it 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 Tor | the Represent:tives to meet or remam | in the hall of the House of Represen- | tatives, the Governor may convene the | Legislature ,or remove 1t, after II mas 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- Quirs. -... .,. 49. The pay of the 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 computed by the nearest usual route traveled. .....-.. 50. The Legislature shall consist of not more than thirty-five Senators, and not moro than one hundred and nVe members of the House of Representa- tives, to be apportioned among the several districts and counties as pre- scribed in this Constitution; provided | that in addition to the above number of | Representa- tives, each new county hereafter created shall be entitled to
 one Representative.
 51. The Senate. at the beginning of each regular session. and at such other l times as may be necessary. shall elect | one of it's members President pro tenn | thereof, to preside over its deliberations | in the absence of the Lieutenant Gov
 erEor: and the House of Representa-
 tives. at the beginning of each regular
 session, and at such other times as may | be necessary. shall elect one of IFS
 the Senate and the Speaker off the House of Representatives.
 shall hold their offices. respect s' ively until their successors are
 elected and qualified. In c'se
 of the temporary disability of said pre-
 siding officers. the house 10 wllloh he
 belongs may elect one of its lErinFers | to preside over that house. a"1 to rer- | form all the duties of such ce,' iur- Ing the continuance Ot HIS ui9dh I V
 and such temporary officer, while per- | forming duty as such. shall receive the
 same compensation to which the per-
 manent officer is entitled ty law. and | no other. Each house shall choose it's
 own officers. and shall judge of he | election. returns and luilif ttions CT it's members.
 52 majority of each house shall | constitute a quorum to io h15iEess; but | smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner
 and under such penalties. as each EouSe may provide.
 B. Each house shall have power 70 determine the rules nf its proceedings and to punish it's members and other persons for contempt or disorderly be-
 havior in it's presence: to enforce obe- dience to its processes, to protect its members against violence, or offers or brihes or corrupt solicitation; and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the house. to expel a member. but not second time for the same offense; and the two houses shall have all the Iow- CTS necessary for the Legislature Of free State.
 54. A member nf the Legislature eX-
 pelIed for corruption shall not there
 after be eligible to either house: and
 punishment for contempt or lisordecly
 behavior shall not bar an indictment Rar fba sapoa nffenSN