Article III

Sec 1

No laws shall be passed xcept by bill, and no bill shall be considered unless referred to a committee, and returned there from, and presented for the use of the members.

Sec 2

No bill, xcept general appropriation bill shall be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly xpressed in its title.

Sec 3

The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law authorizing the creation xtensions or impairing in liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities townships, wards, cities or school districts; changing the names of persons or places; changing the venue in civil or criminal cases; authorizing the laying out, opening, altering or maintaining roads, highways streets or alleys; relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge companies xcept for the erection of bridges crossing streams form boundary lines between this and other States or territories, or any other matter being purely of a local or private nature.

Sec 4

No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice of the intension to apply therefore shall have in the locality where the matter or thing to the effected may be situated, which notices shall have in the locality where the smaller or thing to be effected may be situated, which notice shall be at least thirty days prior to the meeting of the Legislature, such notice shall be in the form to be provided by law, the evidences of such notice having been published shall be xhibited to the General assembly before such a special or local act shall be passed.

Sec 5

The presiding officer of each House shall, in the presence of the House over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the General Assembly after their titles have been publicly read immediately before signing; and the fact of signing shall be entered on the journal.

Sec 6

The General Assembly shall prescribe by law the number duties and compensation of the officers and employees of each House, and no payment shall be made from the State Treasury, or be in anyway authorized, to any person, except to an acting officer or employ elected or appointed in pursuance of law.

Sec 7

No bill shall be passed giving extra com-pensation to any public officer, servant, employee or contractor, after services shall have been ordered or contract made, nor providing for the payment of any claim against the State, without previous authority of law.

Sec 8

All stationary printing paper or other materials shall be furnished by contract under such terms as may be provided by law, and shall such contracts when made shall. Before they go into effect be approved by the Gover-nor, the secretary of the State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Sec 9

No law shall extend the term of any public officer or increase or diminish his salary or appointment during his term of office or appointment.

Sec 10

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose amendments as in other bills.

Sec 11

The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary xpenses of the xecutive, legislative, judicial departments of the State, interest on the public debt, and for public schools, all other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.

Sec 12

No money shall be paid out of the treasury, xcept uon appropriations made by law, and on warrant by the proper officer in pursuance thereof.

Sec 13

No appropriation shall be made to any charatable or educational institution not under the absolute control of the State, other than schools established by law, or pension or gratuities, wherein the widows of soldiers may be supported or assisted or the orphans of soldiers who have been honorably discharged, but such appropriations shall be applied xclusively to the support of such widows and orphans.

Sec 14

No law shall be passed by the Legislature limiting the amount to be recovered for injuries to persons or property; and in case of death from such injuries, the right of action shall survive, and the Legislature shall prescribe for whose benefit such action be prosecuted. No act shall prescribe any limitations of time within which suits may be brought against corporations for injuries to persons or property, or for other causes different from those fixed by laws regulating actions against natural persons.

Sec 15

No law shall be passed authorizing the investing trust funds by executors, administrators, guardians or trustees, in the bonds or stock of any private corporations, and such act one avoided souring investments heretofore made.

Sec 16

The power to change the venue in civil or criminal actions shall be vested in the several Courts, to be xercized in such manner as shall be provided by law.

Sec 17

When the Legislature shall be convened in special session there shall be no legislation upon subject other than those designated in the Governors proclamation calling such session.

Sec 18

No law changing the location of the Capital of the State shall be valid, unite the same shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of the State at a general election and ratified and approved by them.

Sec 18 [Editor’s note: the number 18 was repeated in File No. 3 and was unnoticed for the remainder of the file.]

A member of the Legislature who shall solicit, demand, or receive, or consent to receive directly or indirectly, for himself or for another from any person, company, or corporation, any money, office, appointment, employ-ments testimonial reward, thing of value or enjoy-ment, or of personal advantage, or promise thereof, for his vote or official influence, or for withholding the same, or with the understanding, express or implied, that his vote or official action shall be in any way influ-enced thereby, or who shall solicit or demand any such money or other advantage, matter or thing aforesaid for another, as the consideration of his vote or official influence, or for withholding the same, or shall give or withhold his vote or influence in consideration of the payment or promise of such money, advantage, matter or thing to another shall be hold of bribery within the meaning of this Constitution, and shall incur the disabilities provided thereby for said offense, and such additional punishment as is or shall be provided by law.

Sec 19

Any person who shall directly or indirectly offer give, or promise, any money or thing of value, testimonial, privilege or present, to any xectutive or judicial officer, or member of the Legislature, to influence him in the performance of any of his official or public duties, shall be guilty of bribery and be punished in such manner as shall be provided by law. ‘

Sec 20

The offence of corrupt solicitation of members of the General Assembly, or of public officers of the State or any of the municipal divisions thereof, and occupation or practice of solicitation as such members or officers to influence their official action, shall be defined by law and shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both as shall be provided by law.

Sec 21

Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding against any person who may be charged with having committed the offence of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practices of solicitation, and shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the grounds that it may incriminate himself to subject him to public infamy; but such testi-mony shall not afterwards be used against him in ay judicial proceeding, xcept for perjury in giving such testimony; and any person convicted of either of the offences aforesaid shall as part of the punishment thereof, he disqualified from holding office of honor trust for profit in this State.

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