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ting, nor more than one hundred days during their

term.

bills.

That neither members of the legislature nor employes shall receive any pay or perquisites other than their salary and mileage. Each session, except special sessions, shall be not less than sixty days. After the expiration of forty days of the Introduction of session no bills or joint resolutions of the nature of bills shall be introduced, unless the governor shall by special message call the attention of the legislature to the necessity of passing a law on the subject matter embraced in the message, and the introduction of bills shall be restricted thereto.

gible.

SEC. 5. No person shall be eligible to the office who not eliof senator or member of the house of representatives who shall not be an elector, and have resided within the district from which he is elected for the term of one year next before his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or of this state, and no person elected as aforesaid shall hold his office after he shall have removed from such district.

SEC. 6. No person holding office under the au- Same. thority of the United States, or any lucrative office under the authority of this state, shall be eligible to or have a seat in the legislature; but this provision shall not extend to precinct or township officers, justices of the peace, notaries public, or officers of the militia; nor shall any person interested in a contract with, or an unadjusted claim against the state, hold a seat in the legislature.

held; powers of

SEC. 7. The session of the legislature shall Sessions, when commence at 12 o'clock (noon) on the first Tues- each house. day in January, in the next year ensuing the elec

tion of members thereof, and at no other time, unless as provided by this constitution. A majority of the members elected to each house shall constitute a quorum. Each house shall determine the rules of its proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns, and qualifications of its members; shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president to preside when the lieutenant governor shall not attend as president, or shall act as governor. The secretary of state shall call the house of representatives to order at the opening of each new legislature, and preside over it until a temporary presiding officer thereof shall have been chosen and shall have taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to that house, and no member shall be twice expelled for the same offense. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person, not a member thereof, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house, by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, but no such imprisonment shall extend beyond twenty-four hours at one time, unless the person shall persist in such disorderly or contemptuous behavior.

Journals; votes. SEC. 8. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish them (except such parts as may require secrecy), and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered on the journal. All votes in either house shall be viva voce. The doors of each house, and of [the] committee of the whole, shall be open, unless when the business shall be such as ought to be kept secret. Neither house

Proceedings public.

shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for Adjournment. more than three days.

SEC. 9. Any bill may originate in either house Bills. of the legislature, except bills appropriating money, which shall originate only in the house of representatives, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.

Enacting

vote on pas

SEC. 10. The enacting clause of a law shall be, clause of laws; "Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of sage. Nebraska," and no law shall be enacted except by bill. No bill shall be passed unless by assent of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the legislature. And the question upon the > final passage shall be taken immediately upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal.

printing bills.

SEC. 11. Every bill and concurrent resolution Reading and shall be read at large on three different days in each house, and the bill and all amendments thereto shall be printed before the vote is taken upon its final No bill shall contain more than one Title of bill passage. subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in its title. And no law shall be amended unless the Amending new act contains the section or sections so amended,

laws.

and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The presiding officer of each house Signing of bills. shall sign, in the presence of the house over which he presides, while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, all bills and concurrent resolutions passed by the legislature.

arrest.

SEC. 12. Members of the legislature in all Privilege from cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature, and for fifteen days next be

Member not to receive civil appointment.

Nor to be interested in public contract.

Impeachments, how tried.

fore the commencement and after the termination thereof.

SEC. 13. No person elected to the legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this state from the governor and senate during the term for which he has been elected. And all appointments, and all votes given for any such member for any such office or appointment, shall be void. Nor shall any member of the legislature, or any state officer, be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the state, county, or city, authorized by any law passed during the term for which he shall have been elected, or within one year after the expiration thereof.

SEC. 14. The senate and house of representatives, in joint convention, shall have the sole power of impeachment, but a majority of the members elect must concur therein. Upon the entertainment of a resolution to impeach by either house, the other house shall at once be notified thereof, and the two houses shall meet in joint convention for the purpose of acting upon such resolution within three days of such notification. A notice of an impeachment of any officer other than a justice of the supreme court shall be forthwith served upon the chief justice by the secretary of the senate, who shall thereupon call a session of the supreme court to meet at the capital within ten days after such notice to try the impeachment. A notice of an impeachment of a justice of the supreme court shall be served by the secretary of the senate upon the judge of the judicial district within which the capital is located, and he thereupon shall notify all the judges of the district court in the state to meet with

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SEC. 15. The legislature shall not pass local or special legisla special laws in any of the following cases, that is

say:

For granting divorces.

Changing the names of persons or places.

Laying out, opening, altering, and working
Toads or highways.

Vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys, and
public grounds.

Locating or changing county seats.

Regulating county and township offices.

Regulating the practice of courts of justice. Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates, and constables. Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases.

Incorporating cities, towns, and villages, or changing or amending the charter of any town, city, or village.

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