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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 open-? ing 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 mem ber 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 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.

SEC. 8. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publis them (except such parts as may require secrecy) and the yeas and nays the members on any question, shall at the desire of any two of them be entere on the Journal. All votes in either House shall be viva voce. The doors each House, and of Committee of the Whole, shall be open, unless when the business shall be such as ought to be kept secret. Neither House shall, with out the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days.

SEC. 9. Any bill may originate in either house of the Legislature, exept bills appropriating money, which shall originate only in the House of Rep sentatives, and all bills passed by one House may be amended by the other.

SEC. 10. The style of all bills shall be "Be it enacted by the people of th State of Nebraska," and no law shall be enacted except by bill. No bill sha be passed by the legislature unless by assent of a majority of all the member · elected to each house of the legislature and the question upon final passag shall be taken immediately upon its last reading and the yeas and nays sha be entered upon the journal. 4

SEC. 11. Every bill and concurrent resolution shall be read at large three different days in each house and the bill and all amendments thereto sha be printed before the vote is taken upon its final passage. No bill shall contai more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in its title. A no law shall be amended unless the new act contain the section or sections amended and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The pre siding Officer of each House shall sign in the presence of the House over whic he presides, while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, a bills and concurrent resolutions passed by the legislature.

SEC. 12. Members of the Legislature in all cases except treason, felo or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the session of thi legislature, and for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the termination thereof.

SEC. 13. No person elected to the Legislature shall receive any civil ap pointment within this State from the Governor and senate during the term fo which he has been elected. And all such appointments and all votes given fot 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 shal have the sole power of impeachment, but a majority of the members elected 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 rese lution within three days of such notification. A notice of an impeachment of Amendment proposed by the legislature of 1911 and ratified at the election cf November 5, 1912.

y officer other than a justice of the Supreme Court, shall be forthwith served on the Chief Justice, by the Secretary of the Senate, who shall thereupon Ha session of the Supreme Court to meet at the Capital within ten days ter such notice to try the impeachment. A notice of an impeachment of a stice of the Supreme Court shall be served by the Secretary of the Senate, on the judge of the judicial district, within which the Capital is located, and thereupon shall notify all the judges of the District Court in the State to et with him within thirty days at the Capital, to sit as a Court to try such peachment, which Court shall organize by electing one of its number to prele. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of e members of the Court of impeachment, but judgment in cases of impeachnt shall not extend further than removal from office and disqualification to id and enjoy any office of honor, profit, or trust, in this State, but the party peached, whether convicted or acquitted shall nevertheless be liable to prostion and punishment according to law. No officer shall exercise his official ties after he shall have been impeached and notified thereof, until he shall ve been acquitted.

SEC. 15. The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the lowing cases, that is to say:

For granting divorces.

Changing the names of persons or places.

Laying out, opening, altering and working roads 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 Magrates and Constables.

5 Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases.

| Incorporating Cities, Towns and Villages, or changing or amending the arter of any Town, City, or Village.

Providing for the election of Officers in Townships, incorporated Towns or

ties.

| Summoning or empaneling Grand or Petit Juries.

Providing for the bonding of cities, towns, precincts, school districts or her municipalities.

Providing for the management of Public Schools.
Regulating the interest on money.

The opening and conducting of any election, or designating the place of ting.

The sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors, or others under sability.

The protection of game or fish.

Chartering or licensing ferries, or toll bridges, remitting fines, penalties or rfeitures, creating, increasing and decreasing fees, percentage or allowances public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed. Changing the law of descent.

Granting to any corporation, association, or individual the right to lay own railroad tracks, or amending existing charters for such purpose.

Grant

g to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive priveges, immunity, or franchise whatever. In all other cases where a general w can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.

SEC. 16. The Legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any ublic officer, agent, servant, or contractor after the services shall have been endered or the contract entered into. Nor shall the compensation of any ublic officer be increased or diminished during his term of office.

SEC. 17.

) this state.

The Legislature shall never alienate the salt springs belonging

SEC. 18. Lands under control of the State shall never be donated to raiload companies, private corporations or individuals.

SEC. 19. Each Legislature shall make appropriations for the expenses of! the Government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session, and all appropriations shall end with such fiscal quarter. And whenever it is deemed necessary to make further appro priations for deficiencies, the same shall require a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to each House, and shall not exceed the amount of revenue authorized by law to be raised in such time. Bills making appropriations for the pay of members and officers of the Legislature, and for the salaries of the officers of the Government, shall contain no provision on any other subject.

SEC. 20. All offices created by this Constitution shall become vacant by the death of the incumbent, by removal from the State, resignation, conviction of a felony, impeachment, or becoming of unsound mind. And the Legislatur shall provide by general law for the filling of such vacancy, when no provisio is made for that purpose in this constitution.

SEC. 21. The legislature shall not authorize any games of chance, lottery or gift enterprise, under any pretense or for any purpose whatever.

SEC. 22. No allowance shall be made for the incidental expenses of an State officer, except the same be made by general appropriation and upon account specifying each item. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury except in pursuance of a specific appropriation made by law, and on the prese tation of a warrant issued by the Auditor thereon, and no money shall be verted from any appropriation made for any purpose or taken from any fu whatever, either by joint or separate resolution. The Auditor shall, within sin days after the adjournment of each session of the Legislature. prepare publish a full statement of all moneys expended at such session, specifying amount of each item, and to whom and for what paid.

SEC. 23. No member of the legislature shall be liable in any civil or cri inal action whatever for words spoken in debate.

SEC. 24. No act shall take effect until three calendar months after th adjournment of the session at which it passed, unless in case of emergene to be expressed in the preamble or body of the act, the Legislature shall, a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise dire All laws shall be published in book form within sixty days after the adjour ment of each session and distributed among the several counties in such ma ner as the legislature may provide.

ARTICLE IV.

LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT.

Until otherwise provided by law, Senatorial and Representative distric shall be formed, and Senators and Representatives apportioned as follows:

District No. 1. to two Senators. District No. 2.

one Senator.

District No. 3.

Senators.

District No. 4.

Senator.

District No. 5.

two Senators.

District No. 6.

SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.

Shall consist of the County of Richardson, and be entitle

Shall consist of the County of Nemaha, and be entitled

Shall consist of the county of Otoe, and be entitled to twe

Shall consist of the County of Cass, and be entitled to one

Shall consist of the County of Douglas, and be entitled to

Shall consist of the Counties of Douglas and Sarpy, and be

entitled to one Senator.

District No. 7. Shall consist of the County of Washington, and be entitled to one Senator. Shall consist of the County of Dodge, and be entitled to

District No. 8.

one Senator.

District No. 9.

one Senator.

Shall consist of the County of Cuming, and be entitled to

District No. 10. Shall consist of the Counties of Burt and Dakota, and be titled to one Senator.

District No. 11. Shall consist of the Counties of Madison, Stanton, Wayne, erce. Antelope, and Boone, and be entitled to one Senator.

District No. 12.

Shall consist of the Counties of Dixon, Cedar, Knox, Holt d the unorganized territory west of Holt, and be entitled to one Senator. District No. 13. Shall consist of the Counties of Hall, Howard, Merrick, eeley, and the unorganized territory north of Greeley, and be entitled to one mator.

District No. 14.

Shall consist of the Counties of Platte and Colfax, and entitled to one Senator.

District No. 15. Shall consist of the Counties of Butler and Polk, and be itled to one Senator.

District No. 16. one Senator.

District No. 17.

two Senators.

District No. 18.

Shall consist of the County of Saunders, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Lancaster, and be entitled

Shall consist of the Counties of Johnson and Pawnee, and entitled to one Senator.

District No. 19. Shall consist of the Counties of Gage and Jefferson, and entitled to one Senator.

District No. 20,

= Senator.

District No. 21.
Senator.

District No. 22.

Shall consist of the County of Saline, and be entitled to

Shall consist of the County of Seward, and be entitled to

Shall consist of the Counties of York and Hamilton, and entitled to one Senator.

District No. 23. Shall consist of the Counties of Fillmore and Clay, and entitled to one Senator.

| District No. 24. Shall consist of the Counties of Adams, Webster, Nuckolls Thayer, and be entitled to one Senator.

District No. 25. Shall consist of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, FrankHarlan, Phelps. Sherman, Valley, and the unorganized territory west of erman, Valley and Senatorial District No. thirteen, (13) and be entitled to Senator.

District No. 26. Shall consist of the counties of Lincoln, Dawson, Gosper, rnas, Red Willow, Frontier, Hitchcock, Dundy, Chase, Keith, Cheyenne, and unorganized territory west of Frontier, and between Frontier and Chase, I be entitled to one Senator.

REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.

District No. 1. Shall consist of the County of Richardson, and be entitled four Representatives.

District No. 2. Shall consist of the County of Pawnee, and be entitled to o Representatives.

District No. 3. Shall consist of the County of Gage, and be entitled to O Representatives.

@ District No. 4. Shall consist of the County of Johnson, and be entitled to Representatives.

District No. 5. Shall consist of the County of Nemaha, and be entitled three Representatives.

District No. 6. Shall consist of the County of Otoe, and be entitled to four presentatives.

District No. 7. Shall consist of the County of Lancaster, and be entitled four Representatives.

District No. 8. Shall consist of the County of Saunders, and be entitled three Representatives.

District No. 9. Shall consist of the County of Cass, and be entitled to ree Representatives.

District No. 10. Shall consist of the County of Sarpy, and be entitled to e Representative.

Shall consist of the County of Douglas, and be entitle

District No. 11. to eight representatives. District No. 12.

two Representatives.

Shall consist of the County of Dodge, and be entitled

District No. 13. Shall consist of the County of Washington, and be enti tled to two Representatives. Shall consist of the County of Burt, and be entitled

District No. 14. one Representative.

District No. 15. two Representatives. District No. 16. one Representative.

District No. 17. one Representative.

District No. 18. to one Representative. District No. 19. one Representative.

District No. 20. to one Representative. District No. 21. to one Representative. District No. 22.

one Representative.

Shall consist of the County of Cuming, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Dakota, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Dixon, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Jefferson, and be entit

Shall consist of the County of Thayer, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Nuckolls, and be entit

1

Shall consist of the County of Webster, and be enti

Shall consist of the County of Adams, and be entitled

District No. 23. Shall consist of the County of Clay, and be entitled to Representative.

District No. 24. to one Representative. District No. 25.

three Representatives.

Shall consist of the County of Fillmore, and be entit

Shall consist of the County of Saline, and be entitled

District No. 26. Shall consist of the County of Seward, and be entitled two Representatives. District No. 27. Shall consist of the County of York, and be entitled two Representatives. District No. 28.

to one Representative.

Shall consist of the County of Hamilton, and be enti

District No. 29. Shall consist of the County of Hall, and be entitled to Representative. Shall consist of the County of Buffalo, and be entitled

District No. 30.

one Representative.

District No. 31.

one Representative.

Shall consist of the County of Lincoln, and be entitled

District No. 32. Shall consist of the County of Harlan, and be entitled one Representative.

District No. 33. Shall consist of the Counties of Howard and Greeley, a be entitled to one Representative.

District No. 34. Shall consist of the County of Merrick, and be entitl to one Representative.

District No. 35. one Representative.

District No. 36, one Representative.

District No. 37, one Representative. District No. 38. one Representative.

Shall consist of the County of Polk, and be entitled

Shall consist of, the County of Butler, and be entitled

Shall consist of the County of Colfax, and be entitle

Shall consist of the County of Platte, and be entitled

District No. 39. Shall consist of the County of Madison, and be entit to one Representative.

District No. 40. Shall consist of the County of Cedar, and be entitled one Representative.

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