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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFOKNIA. 
other civil officers shall be tried for misdemeanors in office, in such manner 
as the Legislature may provide. 
Sec. 20. No Senator or member of Assembly shall, during the term for 
which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit, 
under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which 
shall have been increased, during such term, except such office as may be 
filled by elections by the people. 
Sec. 21. No person holding any lucrative office under the United States, 
or any other power, shall be eligible to any civil office of profit, under this 
State; provided, that officers in the militia, to which there is attached no 
annual salary, or local officers and postmasters whose compensation does not 
exceed five hundred dollars per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative. 
Sec. 22. No person who shall be convicted of the embezzlement or defalca¬ 
tion of the public funds of this State, shall ever be eligible to any office of 
honor, trust, or profit, under the State; and the Legislature shall, as soon as 
practicable, pass a law providing for the punishment of such embezzlement, 
or defalcation, as a felony. 
Sec. 23. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence 
of appropriations made by law. An accurate statement of the receipts and 
expenditures of the public moneys shall be attached to, and published with, 
the laws, at every regular session of the Legislature. 
Sec. 24. The members of the Legislature shall receive for their services, a 
compensation to be fixed by law, and paid out of the public treasury; but no 
increase of the compensation shall take effect during the term for which the 
members of either house shall have been elected. 
Sec. 25. Every law enacted by the Legislature, shall embrace but one 
object, and that shall be expressed in the title: and no law shall be revised, 
or amended, by reference to its title ; but in such case, the act revised, or sec¬ 
tion amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length. 
Sec. 26. No divorce shall be granted by the Legislature. 
Sec. 27. No lottery shall be authorized by this State, nor shall the sale of 
lottery tickets be allowed. 
Sec. 28. The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State shall be taken, 
under the direction of the Legislature, in the year one thousand eight hun¬ 
dred and fifty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and at the 
end of, every ten years thereafter; and these enumerations, together with the 
census that may be taken, under the direction of the Congress of the United 
States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and every subse¬ 
quent ten years, shall serve as the basis of representation in both houses of 
the Legislature. 
Sec. 29. The number of Senators and members of Assembly, shall, at the 
first session of the Legislature, holden after the enumerations herein provided 
for are made, be fixed by the Legislature, and apportioned among the several 
counties and districts to be established by law, according to the number of 
white inhabitants. The number of members of Assembly shall not be less 
than twenty-four, nor more than thirty-six, until the number of inhabitants 
