§ 19. The style of the laws of this State shall be, “Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly.”

$ 20. Bills may originate in either house, but may be altered, amended or rejected by the other; and on the final passage of all bills, the vote shall be by ayes and noes, upon each bill separately, and shall be entered upon the journal; and no bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a majority of all the mem

bers elected to each house.

§ 21. Bills making appropriations for the pay of the members and officers of the General Assembly, and for the salaries of the officers of the government, shall not contain any provision on any other subject.

§ 22. Every bill 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 on its final passage; and every bill having passed both houses, shall be signed by the speakers of their respective houses. And no law which may be passed by the General Assembly shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the title thereof, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title; and no law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title only; but the act revised or the section amended shall be inserted at length in the new law. And no act of the General Assembly shall take effect until the first day of July next after the passage thereof, unless, in case of emergency, the General Assembly shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, otherwise direct-which emergency shall be expressed in the preamble or body of the act.

$ 23. The members of the General Assembly shall receive, for their services, the sum of five dollars per day during the first session held under this Constitution, and ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government, to be computed by the Auditor of Public Accounts, and thereafter such compensation as shall be prescribed by law; and no other allowance or emolument, directly or indirectly, for any purpose whatever, except the sum of fifty dollars per session to each member, which shall be in full for postage, stationery, newspapers, and all other incidental expenses and perquisites; but no change shall be made in the compensation of members of the General Assembly during the term for which they may have been elected.

$ 24. The pay and mileage allowed to each member of the General Assembly shall be certified by the speakers of their respective houses, and entered on the journals, and published at the close of each session.

$ 25. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of an appropriation made by law and on the presentation of a warrant issued by the Auditor thereon; and no money shall be diverted from any appropriation made for any purpose, or taken from any fund whatever, either by joint or separate resolution.

§ 26. No person who has been or may be a collector or holder of public moneys, shall be eligible to a scat in either house of the General Assembly, nor be eligible to any office of profit or trust in this State, until such person shall have accounted for and paid into the treasury all sums for which he may be accountable. The Auditor shall, within sixty days after the adjournment of each session of the General Assembly, prepare and publish a full statement of all money expended at such session, specifying the amount of each item, and to whom and for what paid.

$ 27. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching; but a majority of all the members elected must concur in an impeachment. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; and when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath, or affirmation, to do justice according to law and evidence. When the Governor of the State is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators elected.

$ 28. The Governor and other civil officers of this State shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit or trust under the government of this State. The party, whether

convicted or acquitted, shall, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.

§ 29. No judge of any court of law or equity, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State's Attorney, recorder, clerk of any court of record, sheriff or collector of the public revenue, member of either house of Congress, or person holding any lucrative office under the United States or this State, or any foreign government, shall have a seat in the General Assembly: Provided, that appointments in the militia or notaries public, or the office of justice of the peace, shall not be considered lucrative offices; nor shall any person holding any office of honor or profit under any foreign government, or under the government of the United States, (except postmasters whose annual compensation shall not exceed the sun of three hundred dollars,) hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of

this State.

§ 30. Members of the General Assembly, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of senator (or representative), according to the best of my ability; and that I have not, knowingly or intentionally, paid or contributed anything or made any promise in the nature of a bribe to directly or indirectly influence any vote at the election in which I was chosen to fill the said office; and that I have not accepted, nor will I accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any money or valuable thing from any corporation, company or person, for any vote that I may give or withhold, or for any influence I may use on any bill, resolution or appropriation, or other official act I may perform in the discharge of my duty." This oath shall be administered by a judge of the Supreme or Circuit Court, in the hall of the house to which the member is elected; and the Secretary of State shall record and file the oath subscribed by each member. Any member who shall refuse to take the oath herein prescribed, shall forfeit his office; and any member who shall be convicted of having sworn falsely, or of violating his oath, shall forfeit his office, and be disqualified thereafter from holding any office of profit or trust in this State.

§ 31. No person who has been or hereafter shall be convicted of bribery, perjury or other infamous crime, shall be eligible to a seat in the General Assembly. $32. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say:

For granting divorces.

For changing the names of persons or places.

For laying out, opening, altering and working on roads or highways.

For vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys and public grounds.

For locating or changing county seats.

For regulating county and township affairs.

For regulating the practice in courts of justice.

For regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates and constables.

For providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases.

For incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing or amending the charter of any town, city or village.

For the election of members of the board of supervisors in townships, incorporated towns or cities.

For summoning and impanneling grand or petit juries.

For providing for the management of common schools.

For interest on money.

For providing for the opening and conducting of any election or designating the place of voting.

For providing for the sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability.

For the protection of game or fish.

For chartering or licensing ferries and toll bridges.

For remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures.

For creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed, or for extending the terms of said officers.

For changing the law of descent.

For granting to any individual, association or corporation the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing charters for such purposes.

For granting to any individual, association or corporation any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.

No corporation shall be created by special laws, or its charter extended, changed or amended, except for charitable, educational, penal or reformatory purposes, which are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the State; but the General Assembly shall provide by general laws for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created.

In all other cases whatever, in addition to those above enumerated, where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.

§ 33. The General Assembly shall never grant or authorize extra compensation, fee or allowance to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor after the services shall have been rendered or the contract made; nor authorize the payment of any claim or part thereof hereafter created against the State under any agreement or contract made without express authority of law, and all such agreements or contracts shall be null and void: Provided, the General Assembly may make appropriations for expenditures incurred in suppressing insurrection or repelling inva sion.

§ 34. The State of Illinois never shall be made defendant in any court of law or equity. $ 85. The General Assembly shall have no power to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any purpose, and shall pass laws to prohibit the sale of lottery or gift enterprise tickets in this State.

§ 36. Each General Assembly shall provide for all the appropriations necessary for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session, the aggregate amount of which shall not be increased without a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, nor exceed the amount of revenue authorized by law to be raised in such time, and all appropriations, general or special, requiring money to be paid out of the State treasury from funds belonging to the State, shall end with such fiscal quarter: Provided, the State may, to meet casual deficits or failures in revenues, contract debts, never to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the moneys thus borrowed shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained, or to repay the debt thus created, and to no other purpose; and no other debt, except for the purpose of repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection, or defending the State in war (for payment of which the faith of the State shall be pledged), shall be contracted, unless the law authorizing the same, shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for members of the General Assembly at such election. The General Assembly shall provide for the publication of said law for three months at least, before the vote of the people shall be taken upon the same; and provision shall be made, at the time, for the payment of the interest annually, as it shall accrue, by a tax levied for the purpose, or from other sources of revenue; which law providing for the payment of such interest by such tax, shall be irrepealable until such debt be paid: And provided, further, that the law levying the tax shall be submitted to the people with the law authorizing the debt to be contracted.

§ 37. The General Assembly shall make no appropriation of money, out of the treasury, in any private law.

$38 Neither the General Assembly, nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, shall ever make any appropriation, or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other institution of learning controlled by any sectarian denomination whatever. Nor shall any grant or donation of land or personal property ever be made by any such public corporation for any sectarian purpose whatever.

$ 39. The General Assembly shall provide, by law, that the fuel, stationery and printing paper furnished for use of the State, the copying, printing, binding and distributing the laws and journals, and all other printing ordered by the General Assembly, shall be let by contract to the lowest responsible bidder; but the General Assembly shall fix a maximum price; and no member thereof or other officer of the State shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in such contract.

§ 40. The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or individual to this State or to any municipal corporation therein.

§ 41. All existing charters or grants of special or exclusive privileges under which organization shall not have taken place, or which shall not have been in operation, shall cease after ten days from the time this Constitution takes effect, and thereafter have no validity or effect whatever.

§ 42. The General Assembly shall never pay or assume, on behalf of the State, the debts of any county, town or township, nor of any corporation whatever.

§ 43. No law shall be passed which shall operate to extend the term of any public officer after his election or appointment.

§ 44. The General Assembly shall never authorize counties, cities or other municipalities to take stock in or donate any money, or other property, in aid of any railroad company, or other corporation, except by and with the consent of a majority of the voters of the county, city or other municipality, to be so affected.

Mr. Coolbaugh moved that the said article on the Legislative Department, as adopted by the Convention, be engrossed by the Secretary and referred to the committee on Revision and Adjustment.

Mr. Benjamin moved that the vote by which section 44 was adopted,

be reconsidered.

On motion of Mr. Coolbaugh,

At 6 o'clock and 30 minutes, the Convention adjourned.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1870.

Convention met, pursuant to adjournment.

Prayer by Rev. Mr. Miller.

Journal read and approved.

Mr. Snyder presented the resignation of Beverly W. Henry, a delegate from the 13th district; which was read by the Secretary, and is as follows, to-wit:

TO THE HON. CHARLES W. HITCHCOCK,

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., March 2, 1870.

President of the Illinois Constitutional Convention:

SIR-I beg leave to present, through you, this, my resignation, to the Convenion, as a member of the same, and ask that the same may be accepted.

BEVERLY W. HENRY.

Mr. Pillsbury asked for leave of absence, on account of sickness; which was granted.

Mr. Truesdale asked for leave of absence for Mr. Poage, for one week; which was granted.

Mr. Snyder asked for leave of absence for Mr. Bryan, until next week; which was granted.

Mr. Merriam asked for leave of absence for Mr. Bayne, until Tuesday of next week; which was granted.

Mr. Coolbaugh presented a communication from Thomas Hoyne, and others, members of the bar of Cook county, in relation to courts in said county; which was referred to the committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Benjamin, by leave, introduced the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on the Bill of Rights, viz:

Resolved, That the committee on Bill of Rights be instructed to inquire into the expediency of incorporating in the Constitution the following section:

The General Assembly shall not pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, or make any irrevocable grants of special privileges or immunities.

Mr. Abbott, by leave, introduced the following preamble and resolutions; which were referred to the committee on Education, viz:

WHEREAS Systems of primary education are distinguishing features of all civilized nations, who have made any substantial progress in the world; that the permanent advancement of the human intellect and the moral elevation of human society depend upon the general dissemination of early education; that as education is early and generally distributed among the masses of the people, the spirit of evil is curbed and crime proportionally diminished; that the more numerous primary school-houses become, the less jails will be required by society, to guard it against the vicious; and whereas the State of Illinois has exhibited a commendable liberality, in endowing the cause of education, in a most munificent manner, by her common free school law, and that the only consideration that the State expects, in return for the burden of heavy taxation which the support of the free schools imposes upon her people, is the repression of crime and the moral advancement of human progress; therefore

Resolved, That, while it takes just as much of the people's money and costs equally as much to carry on our common free schools, whether children attend or not, parents, guardians and others, having children of sufficient age for scholars, under control, should be compelled, by law, to send all such children to the common schools: Provided, sickness does not prevent or education is not elsewhere provided.

Resolved, That education in our common free schools should not, in any manner, be hindered or clogged by any sectarian teachings, in any form whatever, and that all books of such a tendency should be rigidly excluded from the common free schools.

Mr. Hayes introduced the following section, and moved that it be laid upon the table, to be considered at the same time with the majority report of the committee on the Judiciary, reported through Mr. Church; which motion was agreed to, viz:

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$ No public officer in this State shall have or receive any free pass or gratuity of any railroad company; upon acceptance by him of such free pass or gra tuity, his office shall immediately become vacant.

Mr. Buxton moved that the report of the committee on Railroad Corporations be made the special order for consideration at the same time with the majority report of the Judiciary committee, on the exercise of the power and right of eminent domain; which motion was agreed to.

The President announced, as the business next in order, the unfinished business of yesterday, to wit: the motion of Mr. Turner, to reconsider the vote by which section 30 of the report of the committee of the Whole on the Legislative Department, was adopted.

Mr. Turner then withdrew said motion.