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provided, that no member shall be paid mileage more than one time during any sitting of the General Assembly.
 Referred to Committee on Legisla- tive Department.
 Ordinance No. 11S, by Mir. Kirkland:
 Relates to mileage to members of the General Assembly and others.
 Be 1t ordained by the people in con- vent1on assembled, That members of the General Assembly, Presidential electors. witnesses before any court, ana others who may be entitled to draw mileage. as compensation in part, Tor their services, shall be allowed the sum Of three cents per mile each way. ana no more, to be computed by the route most usually travelled.
 Referred to Judiciary Committee.
 Ordinance No. IT By MT. Kirkland:
 To amend Section of Article W of the present Constitution of Alabama.
 Be 1t ordained by the people of Ala bama. in convention Assembled, That Section of Article " of the present Constitution be amended so as to read as follo ws:
 Section 5. The General Assembly shall meet every four years, at the Capitol. in the Senate Chamber and in the Hall of the House of Representa- tives. except in cases of destruction of the Capitol. or epidemics, when the Governor may convene them at such place in the State as he may deem best, on the day specified in this Con- stitution, or on such other days as may be prescribed by law; and shall not re- main in session longer than sixty days at the first session under this Consti- tuition, nor longer than fifty days at any subsequent sessions.
 Referred to Committee on Legisla- tive Department.
 Ordinance No 11S. by Mir. Kirkland:
 To amend Section Is of Article V of the present constitution.
 Be 1t ordained by the people of Ala bama in convention assembled, That Section 16 of Article V of the present constitution of the State of Alabama be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 16. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall, during the time they respectively administer the gov ernment, receive the same compensa- tion which the Governor would have received 1T he had been employed in the duties of hls office. Provided, that if the General Assembly shall be in .es- sion during the time they are admin istering the government, they or either of them shall receive no compensation as members Of the General Assembly while acting as Governor. And pro- vided further. that the Governor, while the President or Speaker of the House or Representatives, or either of them is administering the government shall receive no compensation as Governor.
 Referred to Committee on Executive Department.
 Resolution No. 6S, by MT. Kirkland:
 Be 1t resolved by the people of the State of Alabama, in convention ss- sembled, That the General Assembly of Alabama shall have the power and 1t shall be their duty, to pass such laws, the violation of which, shall be punish ed by imprisonment in the penlten- tiary, as shall effectually prevent tEe business or profession of lobbying with the members thereof for any purpose
 Referred to Committee on Legislative Department
 Ordinance No. 119, by MT. Locklin:
 Relating to suffrage.
 Be 1t ordained, etc, That the quali- fications for electors in this State shall be the same as prescribed in Article VIII of the present constitution, ex- cept as hereinafter provided:
 First-That each male citizen above the age of 21 years shall pay a poll tax of g per year, before he is entitled to register.
 Second-That all registrations of voters for elections shall be completed at least six months in advance of such elections respectively.
 Third-That no elector shall be registered who has not paid all poll taxes due by him., subsequent to the adoption of this constitution. up to q period of not less than twelve months GtVan kha al nt ;ah l. s~. registered to vote.
 Fourth-That registration officers shall be furnished by the tax collec- tors with certified transcripts of the records of their offices showing who have paid poll taxes and upon what dates within a period of twelve months preceding the times prescribed by law for registration; and the General As sembly may prescribe other methods of proof of payment of such taxes.
 Fifth-That 1t shall be optional with any citizen whether he pays poll taxes charged against him.
 Sixth-That all poll taxes collected shall go to the support of public schools in the respective counties in which they are collected.
 white men shall go to the support-of
 
 colored men to colored schools only.
 Referred to Committee on Suffrage and Elections.
 MT. Lowe Gauderdale)--Mr. Presi- dent-I yield my call to MT. Sanders of Limestone.
 Resolution No. 69, by MT. Sanders:
 A resolution as to/the sense of this convention touchingt suffrage reform in Alabama. O
 Resolved, First-That 1t is the sense of this convention that the suffrage re- form demanded by the conditions pre- vailing in Alabama, and promised to the people of this State by this con- vention, can be best accomplished in the recognition of the principle in volved in the exception clause, in the suffrage provisions of the constitution of the States of Louisiana and North Carolina.
 Seocnd-That in justice to the white race of the State, and in order to avoid the paralysis which would result in withdrawing from the youths of Ala bama all stimulus to qualify them selves for the discharge of the priviS leges, duties and obligations of an elector, some limit should be fixed, at the expiration of which all white males in this State, thereafter to arrive at the voting age, shall possess the gen. eral qualifications which may be pres cribed by this convention for the ex- ercise of the elective franchise.
 Referred to Committee on Suffrage and Elections.
 Ordinance No. 12O, by MT. Macdon- aid:
 To amend Section of Article XI. of