APPENDIX-CONSTITUTION OF 1870.

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Proposed by the general assembly, 1879; ratified by a vote of the people, Nov. 2, 1880; proclaimed adopted by the governor, November 22, 1880.

Art. X. § 8. In each county there shall be elected the following county-officers, at the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A.D. 1882: a county-judge, county-clerk, sheriff, and treasurer, and at the election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1884, a coroner and clerk of the circuit-court-who may be ex-officio recorder of deeds, except in counties having 60,000 and more inhabitants, in which counties a recorder of deeds shall be elected at the general election in 1884. Each of said officers shall enter upon the duties of his office, respectively, on the first Monday of December, after his election, and they shall hold their respective offices for the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, that no person having once been elected to the office of sheriff or treasurer, shall be eligible to reelection to said office for four years after the expiration of the term for which he shall have been elected.

III.

Proposed by the general assembly of 1883, and ratified by the people, Nov. 4, 1884; proclaimed adopted by the governor, Nov. 20, 1884.

Art. V. Veto Power of the Governor. § 16. Every bill passed by the general assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor.

If he approve, he shall sign it, and thereupon it shall become a law; but if he do not approve, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon its journal and proceed to reconsider the bill. If then two-thirds of the members elected agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the objections of the governor; but in all such cases the vote of each house shall be determined by yeas and nays, to be entered upon the journal.

Bills making appropriations of money out of the treasury shall specify the objects and purposes for which the same are made, and appropriate to them respectively their several amounts in distinct items and sections, and if the governor shall not approve any one or more of the items or sections contained in any bill, but shall approve the residue thereof, it shall become a law as to the residue in like manner as if he had signed it.

The governor shall then return the bill, with his objections to the items or sections of the same not approved by him, to the house in which the bill shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider so much of said bill as is not approved by the governor.

The same proceedings shall be had in both houses in reconsidering the same as is hereinbefore provided in case of an entire bill returned by the governor with his objections; and if any item or section of said bill not approved by the governor shall be passed by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses of the general assembly, it shall become part of said law, notwithstanding the objections of the governor.

Any bill which shall not be returned by the governor within ten days-Sundays excepted-after it shall have been presented to him, shall become a law in like

manner as if he had signed it; unless the general assembly shall, by their adjourn ment, prevent its return, in which case it shall be filed with his objections in the office of the secretary of state, within ten days after such adjournment, or become a law.

IV.

Proposed by the general assembly of 1885, and ratified by the people, November 2, 1886; proclaimed adopted by the governor, November 20, 1886.

Additional. Resolved, that hereafter it shall be unlawful for the commissioners of any penitentiary, or other reformatory institution in the State of Illinois, to let by contract to any person, or persons, or corporations, the labor of any convict confined within said institution.

V.

Proposed, at the special session of the 36th general assembly convened, July 23, 1890, and ratified by the people November 4, 1890; proclaimed adopted by the governor, November 20, 1890.

Art. IX. § 13. The corporate authorities of the city of Chicago are hereby authorized to issue interest-bearing bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding five million dollars, at a rate of interest not to exceed five per centum per annum, the principal payable within thirty years from the date of their issue, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid to the treasurer of the World's Columbian Exposition, and used and disbursed by him under the direction and control of the directors in aid of the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in the city of Chicago in pursuance of an act of congress of the United States: Provided, that if, at the election for the adoption of this amendment to the constitution, a majority of the votes cast within the limits of the city of Chicago shall be against its adoption, then no bonds shall be issued under this amendment. And said corporate authorities shall be repaid as large a proportionate amount of the aid given by them as is repaid to the stockholders on the sums subscribed and paid by them, and the money so received shall be used in the redemption of the bonds issued as aforesaid: Provided, that said authorities may take, in whole or in part of the sum coming to them, any permanent improvements placed on land held or controlled by them: And, provided, further, that no such indebtedness so enacted shall in any part thereof be paid by the State, or from any state revenue, tax, or fund, but the same shall be paid by the said city of Chicago alone.