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forty days of the session, and $1.50 per day 

 thereafter, with an allowance of $1 for every 

 ten miles of necessary travel, to $500 per an- 

 num " during the time for which they shall 

 have been elected, and while they shall hold 

 their office, and no other allowance or emolu- 

 ment, directly or indirectly, for any purpose 

 whatever." 



The next amendment adds to paragraph 4 

 of section 7 of Article IV. the following : 



No law shall be revived or amended by reference 

 to its title only, but the act revived, or the section 

 or sections amended, shall be inserted at length. 

 No general law shall embrace any provision of a 

 private, special, or local character. N o act shall be 

 passed which shall provide that any existing law, or 

 any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of 

 the act, or which shall enact that any existing law, 

 or any part thereof, shall be applicable, except by- 

 inserting it in such act. 



The next inserts in paragraph 6 of the same 

 section the word "free" between the word 

 "public" and the word "schools," and adds 

 the following : 



The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance 

 and support of a thorough and efficient system of 

 free public schools for the instruction of all the 

 children in this State between the ages of five and 

 eighteen years. 



Paragraph 8 of the same section is stricken 

 out, and paragraph 9 is changed to 8. The pro- 

 vision stricken out was as follows : 



8. The assent of three-fifths of the members elect- 

 ed to each House shall be requisite to the passage 

 of every law for granting, continuing, altering, 

 amending, or renewing, charters for banks or money 

 corporations ; and all such charters shall be limited 

 to a term not exceeding twenty years. 



The following is inserted as a new para- 

 graph : 



9. No private, special, or local bill shall be passed, 

 unless public notice of the intention to apply there- 

 for, and of the general object thereof, shall have 

 been previously given. The Legislature, at the next 

 session after the adoption thereof, and from time to 

 time thereafter, shall prescribe the time and mode of 

 giving such notice, the evidence thereof, and how 

 much evidence shall be preserved. 



Then a new paragraph 11 is inserted, as fol- 

 lows : 



11. The Legislature shall not pass private, local. 

 or special laws in any of the following enumerated, 

 cases, that is to say : 



Laying out, opening, altering, and working roads 

 or highways. 



Vacating any road, town plot, street, alley, or pub- 

 lic grounds. 



Eegulating the internal affairs of towns and coun- 

 ties; appointing local offices or commissions to reg- 

 ular municipal affairs. 



Selecting, drawing, summoning, or impaneling 

 'grand or petit jurors. 



Creating, increasing, or decreasing the percentage 

 or allowance of public officers during the term for 

 which said officers were elected or appointed. 



Change the law of descent. 



Granting to any corporation, association, or indi- 

 vidual any exclusive privilege, immunity, or fran- 

 chise whatever. 



Granting to any corporation, association, or indi- 

 vidual the right to lay down railroad tracks. 



Providing for changes of venue in civil or crimi- 

 nal cases. 



Providing for the management and support of free 

 public schools. 



The Legislature shall pass general laws providing 

 for the cases enumerated in this paragraph, and for all 

 other cases which, in its judgment, may be provided 

 for by general laws. The Legislature shall pass no 

 special act conferring corporate powers, but they 

 shall pass general laws under which corporations 

 may be organized and corporate powers of every nu- 

 ture obtained, subject, nevertheless, to repeal or al- 

 teration at the will of the Legislature. 



A new paragraph 12 is inserted in the same 

 section, as follows: 



12. Property shall be assessed for taxes under 

 general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its 

 true value. 



The next amendment inserts the following, 

 as paragraph 2 in section 8 of Article IV. : 



2. Every officer of the Legislature shall, before 

 he enters upon his duties, take and subscribe the fol- 

 lowing oath or affirmation : " I do solemnly promise 

 and swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully, impar- 

 tially, and justly perform all the duties of the office 

 of , to the best of my ability and understand- 

 ing ; that 1 will carefully preserve all records, pa- 

 pers, writings, or property intrusted to me for safe 

 keeping by virtue of my office, and 'make such dis- 

 position of the same as may be required by law. 



In Article V., on the "Executive," the 

 words " or the Senate alone " are inserted af- 

 ter the word u Legislature," where it first oc- 

 curs in paragraph 6, giving the Governor the 

 power to convene the Senate without the 

 House in special session. The following is 

 added to paragraph Y : 



If any bill presented to the Governor contain sev- 

 eral items of appropriations of money, he may object 

 to one or more of such items while approving of the 

 other portion of the bill. In such case he shall ap- 

 pend to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement 

 of the items to which he objects, and the appropria- 

 tion so objected to shall not take effect. If the Leg- 

 islature be in session he shall transmit to the House 

 in which the bill originated a copy of such state- 

 ment, and the items objected to shall be separately 

 reconsidered. If, on reconsideration, one or more 

 of such items be approved by a majority of the mem- 

 bers elected to each House, the same snail be a part 

 of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the 

 Governor. All the provisions of this section in re- 

 lation to bills not approved by the Governor, shall 

 apply to cases in which he shall withhold his ap- 

 proval from any item or items contained in a bill ap- 

 propriating money. 



The following is added to paragraph 8, re- 

 lating to the powers and qualifications of the 

 Governor : 



Nor shall he be elected by the Legislature to any 

 office under the government of this State or of the 

 United States, during the term for which he shall 

 bave been elected Governor. 



The other amendments affect Article VII., 

 on the " appointing power and tenure of of- 

 fice." In paragraph 5 of section 1, the words 

 " the adjutant-general and quartermaster-gen- 

 eral" are inserted after- "major-generals," 

 and the same words are stricken out of para- 

 graph 9; the effect being to give the Gov- 

 ernor, with the consent of the Senate, the 



